Beekeeping Archives — https://mrsmillennial.com/category/beekeeping/ Lessons on Food, Travel, Money, and Marriage from a 21st-Century Broad. Fri, 19 May 2017 19:55:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://i0.wp.com/mrsmillennial.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-untitled-drawing-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Beekeeping Archives — https://mrsmillennial.com/category/beekeeping/ 32 32 128573520 Why are my bees going crazy?! https://mrsmillennial.com/2016/06/19/why-are-my-bees-going-crazy/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2016/06/19/why-are-my-bees-going-crazy/#respond Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:32:30 +0000 https://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=2864 It happens to all beekeepers. You’ve done your homework (you think) on backyard beekeeping. You built (or ordered) a hive. You received your bees, and even managed to get them into your hive without getting stung! And then it happens…right around dinnertime…your bees go CRAZY! Are they swarming? Do they hate their new hive? Are […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2016/06/19/why-are-my-bees-going-crazy/feed/ 0 2864 Why The Internet-Famous “Flow” Hive Is a Terrible Idea https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/19/why-the-internet-famous-flow-hive-is-a-terrible-idea/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/19/why-the-internet-famous-flow-hive-is-a-terrible-idea/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:52:55 +0000 https://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=405 Because I’m a beekeeper, anytime someone hears something interesting about bees, they tend to tell me about it.  For that reason, I’ve probably been sent the Indiegogo page for the Flow Hive well over twenty times by now. And I’m not the only one, apparently.  The thing has raised a startling $12 million dollars so […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/19/why-the-internet-famous-flow-hive-is-a-terrible-idea/feed/ 0 405 Beekeeping 101: Replacing Your Queen Bee https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/13/beekeeping-101-replacing-your-queen-bee/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/13/beekeeping-101-replacing-your-queen-bee/#respond Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:38:43 +0000 https://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=392 There ain’t no drama like queen bee drama cause queen bee drama don’t stooooooppp. When we went into our hive for the first time this spring to see how the bees were doing after the winter, we got a nasty surprise.  Our queen had gone rogue. Meaning, our original queen – the one we got […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/06/13/beekeeping-101-replacing-your-queen-bee/feed/ 0 392 So…how much honey does a beehive produce? https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/03/27/so-how-much-honey-does-a-beehive-produce/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/03/27/so-how-much-honey-does-a-beehive-produce/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2015 04:22:14 +0000 https://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=329 It’s about the eight-month anniversary of this blog.  Hooray!  And since that time, one thing has been very consistent. I get a LOT of search traffic from the terms: “How much honey does a hive make?” “Beginner Beekeeping Guide” “How much does honey weigh?” “Backyard beehive setup” “Laws and restrictions backyard beekeeping” “How hard is […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2015/03/27/so-how-much-honey-does-a-beehive-produce/feed/ 0 329 Backyard Beekeeping 101: Our First Honey Harvest https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/19/backyard-beekeeping-101-our-first-honey-harvest/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/19/backyard-beekeeping-101-our-first-honey-harvest/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:09:35 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=88 This weekend, for the first time ever, we harvested honey from our backyard beehive.  I found it incredibly exciting – and I was shocked at just how much honey our little hive had produced – we ended up with just under THREE GALLONS (!!!) of honey (which I canned in half-pint glass jars, for gifts). So how […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/19/backyard-beekeeping-101-our-first-honey-harvest/feed/ 0 88 Backyard Beekeeping 101: Making Your Own Brood Boxes https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/17/backyard-beekeeping-101-making-your-own-brood-boxes/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/17/backyard-beekeeping-101-making-your-own-brood-boxes/#respond Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:10:32 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=72 As I mentioned in a previous post, Carl and I are enjoying our first season as backyard beekeepers. This weekend, an inspection of the hive showed us that our bees have been quite busy!  In just a few short months, our bees had nearly completely filled their existing brood boxes. So, Carl got to work […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/17/backyard-beekeeping-101-making-your-own-brood-boxes/feed/ 0 72 Backyard Beekeeping: An Introduction https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/09/backyard-beekeeping-an-introduction/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2014/08/09/backyard-beekeeping-an-introduction/#respond Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:49:27 +0000 http://unintendeddomesticity.wordpress.com/?p=54 Back in May, I became the proud co-parent of a few hundred or so bees.  (By now, we probably have a few thousand.) Bees.  Yes, beeeeeesss. And since then, we’ve had a lot of people ask exactly how to get started in this whole thing, so I thought I’d share what I know. Keep in […]

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