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Offline riverbee

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Re: Greetings From Western Alaska
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2017, 11:25:58 am »
welcome to the forum jeff!  way cool to see a beek join up from alaska !  now perry won't be the only one teased about living in the frozen tundra......... :D

i have to been to alaska, and want to return. actually had to pass on a chance to go in june, a fly in to fish for king salmon.

i enjoyed your awesome photos!  looking forward to your posts!
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Re: Greetings From Western Alaska
« Reply #21 on: May 28, 2017, 02:16:24 am »
Thanks Nugget Shooter, photography is a hobby of mine.

And Thanks Barbarian, that's very interesting about skeps the stone shelves to keep them. Sometimes the old ways were better than what we do today, it would be fun to go back in time and see how it was done in the old days, we might learn something.

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Re: Greetings From Western Alaska
« Reply #22 on: May 28, 2017, 10:21:34 am »
...In the UK, before modern beekeeping, the bees were housed in straw or willow skeps. To over-winter, some of the skeps were kept in stone built recesses in farm buildings ... bee boles. Locally, we have a bee house. Built of stone, against a slope, the lower room was for farm use (pigs ?), and the upper room had stone shelves and recesses for the skeps.

I'd like to see some pictures of this kind of thing Barbarian.  :)
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Re: Greetings From Western Alaska
« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2017, 06:43:38 am »
Hi Lee,

A source for beeboles and the like is The IBRA Bee Boles Register.          www.ibra.beeboles.org.uk

The local bee house is registered as 1431.
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Re: Greetings From Western Alaska
« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2017, 07:27:43 pm »
Very interesting Barbarian, thanks.  :)
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