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https://www.beecoapiaries.com/blog/an-off-season-visit-with-commercial-beekeepers monthly 0.5 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611680987230-JSUYSWNAQHU2ZUC945TA/Gardners_19.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Internal feeders as shown here are coated with melted wax to seal the inner and outer seams before use in the hives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611680848864-VIKW2W78YOW0DUB9QANS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The honey extractor at Gardner’s Apiaries can hold 200 frames of honey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681108592-E4UF4V6ADFOWI5YROEH3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681491055-SCHR5EQBSBW1PWM5P8TV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers In the gift shop and office, Heather showed us an example bar of queen cups made from recycled beeswax (top of photo) and the fully developed queen cells (bottom of the photo). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681137414-K323PBYNYGQT59FXIZVN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The natural hive at Gardner’s Apiaries is about three years old. Chris plans to catch the queen to breed because feral queens from natural hives have the strongest genetics and most desirable traits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681282075-COC491IIORMY9LLANDK6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers At Vidalia Apicultural Services, Heather shows us the peg board they use to make handmade queen cups from recycled beeswax for their queen rearing production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611680954483-GJ6DITUTKOCTX1DPDP88/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Pallets of internal feeders ready to go at Gardner’s Apiaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681520249-45HLUXVT672B3UE6LXHB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Vidalia Apicultural Services has a lovely small gift shop with all sorts of honey and hive products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681241109-E87EUABLMZU6EGUCB6B0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Looking up into the natural hive at Gardner’s Apiaries, suspended beautifully and intricately just 10 feet above me, feels like looking into another world. It is a good reminder of just how capable, creative and wonderfully made honey bees are and how lucky we are to get to learn from them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681327840-N6S3YGH7JA7TMMZTDHTD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Frames assembled and ready to go for the busy spring season at Vidalia Apicultural Services in Lyons, Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611680907925-FWK9O5VCKKVCWIVDDSBM/Gardners_6.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The honey extractor at Gardner’s Apiaries can hold 200 frames of honey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681550567-28JVME6T0PSI60W6JW06/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Pallets of mating nucs packed and ready for use in the coming weeks as Vidalia Apicultural Services and all south Georgia beekeepers prepare for the busy spring beekeeping season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681015854-7ICJYXV9M1NLIZO86DWP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Wax blocks in storage at Gardner’s Apiaries. The wax is recycled and used to coat frame foundation, seams of internal feeders, and make queen cups for grafting queens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681042390-QTH970FQU7JUALDX8H5A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers A single queen cup made from recycled beeswax that is used in the queen rearing production at Gardner’s Apiaries. They have found that the bees prefer and perform better when they use the wax coated frames and natural wax cups as opposed to the plastic alternatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681167809-M0SB0G6NO3EAF3APTDK8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The natural hive at Gardner’s Apiaries is about three years old and continues to expand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681208882-K0HPG2A02SXWF174AWRD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The natural hive at Gardner’s Apiaries is about three years old and continues to expand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681074165-JCCCH4R4A65R5E8NXNY1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers The pile of queen cups at Gardner’s Apiaries resembles a big stash of pasta noodles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611681357294-ZG3ESCZS29GCFZW9HDZV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Vidalia Apicultural Services specializes in selling queens, nucs, packages, and honey products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1611680825144-552F5HL1I4JNY57R94R3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Off-Season Visit with Commercial Beekeepers Employees started work last year to manufacture all 65,000 boxes that their packages will be sold in this spring. https://www.beecoapiaries.com/blog/build-your-beekeeping-fitness-watch-your-back monthly 0.5 2021-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1610312450532-LBXDMF6RK1XZL81ZKO87/BeeCo+Apiaries_21.jpg Blog - Build Your Beekeeping Fitness — Watch Your Back Lifting cinder blocks requires a strong core and strong back. We use these to prevent wind damage to our hives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1610312588741-RNZ5S2ZJ2JA41MCKOUX4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Build Your Beekeeping Fitness — Watch Your Back Hive carriers are helpful and certainly make the job easier, but it’s still important to protect your back at all times in the apiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006773473-M5BXZBRU68KJ6O2CGBCF/IMG_6435.JPG Blog - Build Your Beekeeping Fitness — Watch Your Back We move alot of equipment at BeeCo Apiaries. It’s very important that we keep our own bodies strong and healthy to keep up with the physical demands required in beekeeping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1610312697854-B5H7AY3Q86JLXJIVXJLK/IMG_6319.jpg Blog - Build Your Beekeeping Fitness — Watch Your Back We buy sugar by the 25 pound bags. 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It took us about a day and half to extract roughly 1,000 pounds of Sourwood honey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006700455-RVME44NEAC3IQJQAF4VZ/IMG_6404.JPG Blog - Harvesting the Sourwood Honey Katherine using the honey comb to uncap a frame of sourwood honey before loading it into the extractor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006994879-EDRD7JHFVA5N94YFSXN8/BeeCo+Apiaries_19.jpg Blog - Harvesting the Sourwood Honey A frame of fresh white wax capped honey. As you can see in this photo, the Sourwood honey is very light in color. https://www.beecoapiaries.com/blog/the-sourwood-flow-part-2 monthly 0.5 2020-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005669637-VC0RA8EDKUIA2CFBWJ05/IMG_6366.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Just enough light to make out the Blue Ridge Mountains as we drive out of the property and begin the journey back to Sparta, Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006378300-ROEWSKUGQAYCJNFDXRPZ/IMG_6378.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II After loading two hives from the trailer, Bruce Morgan drives them to the stands in the apiary where we use a hive mover to lift them onto the wooden stands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006445641-QD7JX4SHGRGWURJ509LS/IMG_6391.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Notice the bees at the hive entrance in the bottom right of this photo. This was seconds after unplugging the entrance once all were unloaded from the trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005464236-N9GA4BQ9IPLDJTSVGKBR/IMG_6361.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Taking down and rolling up the electric fencing we used to surround the trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597006337978-3UKDFX858TX5VPNSWT5L/IMG_6365.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II A final check to make sure tire pressure is good, hives are plugged, and straps are tightened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597003197081-1P8RCLT0WGO6O2KXKTRI/24CFCAEA-5808-4432-A8C3-7C1CD1931B29.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II The trailer with 26 hives surrounded by an electric fence to deter the black bears and curious cows who shared the pasture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005366628-4SA5EAIIFSTPBSD1HKOI/IMG_6356.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Mary uses a spray bottled filled with water and a bee brush to get some of the bees back into the hive before plugging the entrance for the trip home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005865581-MIZYUFJ3DWE3YX7VQQIA/IMG_6379.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Jeff and Mary Lacksen and Bruce Morgan unload the heavy hives back into the apiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005724764-DOR4A3QATNME10K76U34/IMG_6371.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II Quick stop for gas in Clayton, Georgia. The pockets of clouds rest in the mountains making for a beautiful morning and drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1597005807139-JRV7WZ9SLXGBAS3WP2CX/IMG_6375.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part II The trailer loaded down with bees and Sourwood Honey just arrived back in Sparta. https://www.beecoapiaries.com/blog/why-we-feed-during-the-summer monthly 0.5 2020-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1595509411096-DR2NRWWQIP2PKSBUL59B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why We Feed During the Summer A common feeding method is a mason jar top feeder, but we prefer the internal deep feeders during the summer months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1595592509302-CG64IHD79WG0SCYH5GUA/05-25-19Beeco-34.jpg Blog - Why We Feed During the Summer Drawn comb is essential to hive health and production. Bees use the comb for growing larvae and storing honey as shown on this frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1595593303072-Y9ZPL5O17Q3J5QMCO8QC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why We Feed During the Summer Capped brood. The bees need adequate nutrition to tend to the larvae and queen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1595508835027-GVM3ZAWN5FG35WKQ4NJN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why We Feed During the Summer This frame shows bees in the process of building out the comb. The black base is what a frame looks like prior to us putting it into a hive. Without an adequate food source, the bees are unable to draw out the comb across a frame which is what we aim to prevent with intensive summer feeding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1595592877673-ZX2IWDIX5NN5MUBWCRZG/BeeCoApiaries-64.jpg Blog - Why We Feed During the Summer Drawn comb provides the space for the larvae to grow into new bees and storage of honey and pollen as shown on this frame. https://www.beecoapiaries.com/blog/the-sourwood-flow monthly 0.5 2020-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592940158526-02RER0I07TOVCFEQ7NHS/IMG_2007.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Katherine and Mary in front of the bees who will work hard the next few weeks during the Sourwood honey flow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592938829075-ICOUE1J400BH75RWA7CM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Mary and her bees departing BeeCo Apiaries for the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Sourwood honey flow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592939833847-APYIFWQO8YLK17GS37QD/IMG_5588.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Backing in the trailer at the final destination in the Blue Ridge Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592938139958-R4G16T950GMWVVR5CA1D/IMG_1949.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I A piece of plywood serves as the staging area before setting the hive down into the metal brackets on the trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592938674857-Z4PTM3WRE1VV3WDJP3KD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Mary, Rafael, Bruce, and Andre pause for a quick photo after loading the trailer with the honey bee hives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592939608574-ZV56HJWXDIAQDHXY04MB/IMG_1993.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Mary staking down the electric fence around the trailer. The fencing is primarily to keep any black bears from disturbing the hives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592939694273-4R6SSSV8CT5FVSGDIKE4/IMG_5593.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Curious cows inspect the truck while Mary unloads the electric fencing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592940237799-NGKXR7V04WF0YES4LOPA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I Mary walking through the apiary as the morning light catches the dew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592938950387-J0AFLDO290H85EQPEALZ/IMG_1979.jpg Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I It’s important that we move the bees early in the morning in the summer to avoid having them on the road during the heat of day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a0474038fd4d2ba4adcda2e/1592938215982-FL7SRPKE0SMKSM34XKQZ/IMG_0496.JPG Blog - The Sourwood Flow - Part I This custom trailer was originally used as a pollination trailer in the watermelon fields of Florida. 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