We checked up on our remaining 3 bee hives today and were happy to discover evidence of  well functioning colonies in all of them.

The home made frame perch tool seems to have warped a bit since the last upgrade, which means I should have allowed more distance between the arms.

An easy fix once I finish fixing a few other things around here.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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