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Offline Edward

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« on: January 23, 2014, 01:58:41 pm »
Hello I am a side liener beekeeper producing honey, pollen, breeding queens and hoping to have about 100+ hives.

mvh Edward  :P :newhere:





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Re: Hello
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2014, 02:06:02 pm »
Welcome to the forum Edward.  100 hives is a nice sized operation.  Hope you get there without experiencing difficulties along the way. :)
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2014, 02:12:47 pm »
Hi Edward.
How many hives are you running now (sideliner)? I'm at 55 but don't really want to expand much.
Glad you found us.  :welcome:
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2014, 02:51:03 pm »
welcome aboard
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2014, 03:00:07 pm »
Thanks for coming, edward. I enjoy your posts. Hope you stay around.
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2014, 05:11:14 pm »
Welcome and enjoy your stay!  :)
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2014, 05:32:55 pm »
greetings and welcome edward!  loved the pix of the bear!...... :D
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2014, 05:59:10 pm »
 Welcome Edward, glad you are here and good luck on you getting you 100 hives.

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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2014, 06:05:56 pm »
Hello Edward from Sweden. Glad you found us.
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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2014, 06:12:13 pm »
and a large HOWDY from Central Texas.
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2014, 07:17:36 pm »
I have about 45 hives I lost 20 last Winter that came early and spring time last year was 6 weeks late, so many many " Maýbee/ might make it hives didn’t  :'(

Lessons learned, I hate scrubbing and cleansing dead hives, melting frames and cleaning wax Barf! Puke puke !

I´m going to try to get out of holding beekeeping classes this season so I can rebuild and expand.

I have to find effective way to transport streamline and store material, save time and bee flexiable in the way I keep and work my bees.

It seems that everything happens at once late summer early fall.
Harvesting, extracting, splitting, requeening, winter feeding and medicating all happen at the same time.

I´ve had things spread out at 3 locations and I´m in the process of bringing it all home under one roof.

More bees, but less work and time is the goal. Also I still want it to bee fun, and not depending on it to put food on the table, more of a silver lining and/or retirement fund.

Mostly I want to have fun with my bees!  :laugh:

mvh Edward  :P  :newhere:


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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best-" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were.

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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2014, 07:44:16 pm »
I know exactly how you feel. I have chosen to grow slowly and adjust as I did. When growing from 2 or 3 hives to 10, the adjustment is fairly minor. But growing to 50+, the adjustments in time management, multiple yards, coordinating harvesting, feeding if necessary, it all quickly gets out of hand if there is the slightest disruption (weather). I intend to stay at this number unless I feel that I can easily handle more. Fun is important!
It will be very interesting to learn of the methods and styles you have incorporated in your part of the world.
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2014, 08:23:36 pm »
Welcome Edward, hope you like it here.  :)
Wondering what is the average honey harvest per colony in your part of Sweden.
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2014, 09:15:41 pm »
35kg where I live and that is the average for Sweden. 77.1617918 pounds

In the South they have two harvest of rape seeds so they get up to 100kg but they have to harvest it quickly or it turns into cement in the frames and is impossible to extract.



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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best-" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were.

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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2014, 09:26:30 pm »
Quote from: Marbees on January 23, 2014, 08:23:36 pm
Wondering what is the average honey harvest per colony in your part of Sweden.

How do your hives do around you and the rest of Canada?

my main harvest is wild raspberries and wildfire flowers , also the Town I live in has many linden trees so we get a bit of menthol tasting honey. Its a light opaque green color when extracting it  :o

mvh Edward  :P
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« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2014, 11:36:48 pm »
Welcome Edward
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2014, 01:36:46 am »
Quote from: Edward on January 23, 2014, 09:26:30 pm
Quote from: Marbees on January 23, 2014, 08:23:36 pm
Wondering what is the average honey harvest per colony in your part of Sweden.

How do your hives do around you and the rest of Canada?

my main harvest is wild raspberries and wildfire flowers , also the Town I live in has many linden trees so we get a bit of menthol tasting honey. Its a light opaque green color when extracting it  :o

mvh Edward  :P
Hi Edward, this being a welcome forum I answered it here http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,666.0.html
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2014, 02:17:12 am »
Edward says:  ..."the Town I live in has many linden trees so we get a bit of menthol tasting honey."

Ef: I've never had the pleasure of tasting linden honey, but if it's as good as the linden flowers smell, it's got to be great!!!
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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2014, 03:27:53 am »
Welcome to the forum.     :welcome:
It is nice to have another member on this side of the pond.
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2014, 09:36:49 am »
If you have linden trees neár by the bees love to work them. I put some hives in a rape seed field in bloom, they flue up a hill instead to the linden trees so the bees really love it.

Some thought that the linden tree killed bumble bees because many lay dead under the trees, but it turned out they liked it so much they worked the trees till there wings couldn't carry them any more and they had died of old age.


mvh Edward  :P
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