Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Top-bar Beekeeping
Top-bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health | Les Crowder, Heather Harrell
2 posts | 2 read | 1 to read
Discusses top-bar hives as an organic approach to raising bees without antibiotics, miticides, and other chemicals, and reviews the basics of beekeeping and how to manage the hive through the seasons.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
PeanutButterPie
post image

Went to a beekeeping class instead of reading this afternoon

Soubhiville Very cool! 6y
Craftylikefox So cool! 6y
kaysworld1 That's amazing x 6y
26 likes3 comments
blurb
DragonSadhana
post image

I present to you a new hive of bees I am now calling Hester Prynne because they are industrious workers despite my earlier doubts about them. If you don't keep bees, what they're doing here is building comb on the divider wall of a top bar hive, which is a no-no. But, you gotta give them props for being so diligent.

I have another hive named Antigone, and with a friend I maintain two more hives, Jane Eyre and Prince.
#beesoflitsy

AmandaL That is so cool! 7y
DragonSadhana @AmandaL Thanks! Interested in beekeeping? It's a fascinating hobby with some cool benefits. The only downside is the initial investment. 🐝 7y
Mommamanzi This is so cool!!!! 7y
See All 8 Comments
DragonSadhana Glad you like it! @Mommamanzi 7y
AmandaL @DragonSadhana I am! I used to live in a rural area, where it was common to keep bees, but we moved before I could do more than read about it. Where I live now, neighborhood pesticide use makes it impossible. I love seeing other people's agricultural pursuits though. 😁 7y
JazzFeathers I don't think l'd be able to keep a hive, but l do find bees fascinating. And they are so important for our planet 7y
DragonSadhana @AmandaL Neighborhood pesticides! That is really too bad. I have one neighbor who I am sure sprays their lawn, and I just hope my bees never go there. They don't have any flowering nectar plants anyway (no dandelions in the lawn and the gardens are all manicured shrubs), but I worry nonetheless! 7y
DragonSadhana @JazzFeathers Maybe you can help by planting native nectar plants in your area? Then you'll have your own visiting bees - native bees and the European honeybee. 🌼🌸🐝 7y
23 likes1 stack add8 comments