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High Humidity in the Bee Shed

March 7, 2020 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

Back into the bee shed today to sweep up some bees, some things are not quite right, and it is my own fault as I had planned to remedy them last year but didn’t get around to it. The Canadian […]

Counting Equipment and Dealing With a Mishap

March 7, 2020 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

Winter Honey Bee Attrition

January 11, 2020 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

Swept out the bee shed today. Weighed and calculated the honey bee attrition rate to date. Wondering what is normal. What are you seeing?

Our Small Scale Wintering Shed

November 17, 2019 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

A tour of our small scale wintering shed

Moving Bees Indoors for Winter

November 3, 2019 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

The forecast looks like winter, time to move the bees inside. Kayla and I moved the bees into the wintering shed.

Really Digging this Thanksgiving Weekend

October 13, 2019 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering / Tagged: beekeeping, bees, canada, Honey

We got a ton of snow, time to dig the hives out.

January 17th – Bees in a Manitoba Winter

January 17, 2018 / 0 Comments / Posted in: Wintering

How can you even keep bees alive in Canada? How do they survive the cold Manitoba winters? These are questions I often receive on social media from our friends in warmer climates. It can get extremely cold here in Manitoba, […]