Covering the bee covers with flashing
Mark had all the tools laid out around the
chicken tractor, so I decided to finish up my bee box exterior
covers. The result is very serviceable, but I wish I'd taken the
time to measure and bend the flashing a bit more carefully --- the
picture on the lower left shows what happens when you bend your
flashing wrong and have to rebend it....You can probably guess what I did from the photos, but if you can't --- first, I cut two pieces of flashing a bit longer than the length of the exterior cover. I made a small cut in two of the corners (shown at right) and then bent the flaps over to make a corner (top left). As I went along, I realized that the sharp corners were potentially hazardous, so I folded them under a bit. Then I screwed the flashing onto the top of the cover, and repeated with another piece on the other side. Our bee box is nearly ready for bees!
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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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