Bee stump
We normally support bee hive
boxes with a couple of cinder blocks, but getting some without the ATV
would have been a chore...plus Anna says she would like this new box a
little higher.
I'd say it took less than a
half hour to cut the stump to size and level off a piece of scrap
plywood so it sits at a slight incline so water won't drain inward.
It would have been nice to
put a layer of paint on it...but since we were moving the new swarm in within the hour I elected to
let it go bare. I don't know if paint fumes would have been enough to
drive them away, but we didn't want to chance it.
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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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Hive Base
How cool!!!
Comment by
Michelle
— Wed Jun 26 17:24:15 2013
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beeswax?
I know there is beeswax furniture polish... I wonder if a beeswax treatment would have been a good idea for your piece of plywood... it should provide at least a modicum of water and weather protection? I've never seen or heard it done, so maybe it's a silly idea.
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Katharina
— Thu Jun 27 10:40:38 2013
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