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“I can taste neither the fermentation or grape, or of wheat.” | |||
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Someone went to the mountain of enlightenment while they were away so long!  You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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David Lee and Ryanp225 ... mead is a honey wine. I am a traditionalist enjoying a plain honey mead. However there are many types of mead depending on the spices, fruits or whatever added. Please see below : https://www.batchmead.com/blog...ide-to-types-of-mead | |||
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I think I've had some of their honey. It comes in Mason jars.  הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I enjoyed that Para. Didn't register there so can't read the whole article. They are some kind of busy little bodies. | |||
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As stated, a beekeeper takes some of the honey, and leaves the rest. If the bees don’t have enough honey, the beekeeper will feed the bees some form of sugar like fondant. This is more common during times of stress, like during a spring cold snap that is limiting flora, or a new hive that has no honey stores. Also, feeding the bees will increase the honey production by dissuading them from eating their own stored honey. Beekeepers will also provide pollen patties for protein, or holdback honey from some harvests for later feeding. There’s a lot to beekeeping. It’s quite involved, more so than what most people think. I tried to keep bees once. My hive didn’t last long. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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In Odin we trust |
I've been keeping bees for 5 years now (this spring is the 6th). It is a ton of fun, and for me, very zen. Bees are fascinating little creatures. Got into it because I enjoy honey, and wanted to make my own mead. I have yet to make any mead, but added 2 additional hives this year (4 total now) and will try it for the first time. But honestly I'd keep the bees even without the mead. I'm seriously infatuated with them. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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That is interesting that they can be fed. Bee farming by golly. | |||
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Why do bees make honey? For me. Just for me. That's what the song says. "The bees are buzzin in the trees/ They're making honey just for me/" That's why bees make honey. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Been supporting orchard mason and leaf cutter bees for 4 years. Had gone from 100 to over 500, but then had some line repairs that had to be made right by them during the peak of their season. That dropped the population to 77, but we're already back over 100 and the season isn't into full swing yet this year, so looking promising. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Good for you Chuck for providing a home for the Mason and Leaf Cutter bees. I have a box with tubes at two locations. These are for pollination of blueberry plants. Blueberry plants also need fish emulsion fertilizer which you can get at Walmart. You can buy the bees and supplies at Crown Bees. https://crownbees.com/ They are also good for pollination of other garden crops. The Leaf Cutter bees take a smaller size tube. One year I found Leaf Cutter bees in the larger diameter tubes when they dropped out. 41 | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
Speaking of bees, I just found out there's a hive building up inside the top of my chimney. We don't use the fireplace, so the top is capped with a piece of wood and bricks laying on top. The wood must have rotted or warped during the winter, and they worked their way under. Called several bee keepers and none would come out. Trying not to kill any by using repellent made from the kitchen pantry. Hopefully they leave so I can seal it for good with sheetmetal and flex seal. | |||
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