Blog entries tagged beekeeping season http://www.beethinking.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:15:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.beethinking.com/blog/top-bar-and-warre-hives-2009-season-recap <p>What a year! We&rsquo;ve been so busy since July that we&rsquo;ve had little spare time to update the blog.</p><br/><p>Here&rsquo;s a recap of the 2009 beekeeping season at Bee Thinking: In April this year we started 8 horizontal top bar hives and 12 Warre hives throughout the Portland area as well as at three wineries: Cameron, Sokol Blosser and Lachini. 20 packages and numerous swarms populated the hives, ultimately reaching a peak of around 25 hives.</p><br/><p>Horizontal top bar hives: We kept alRead More... Matthew Reed Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:44:07 +0100 warre hive top bar hive review beekeeping season