Winter Lists

The semester ended yesterday, and now I have a short break in which I can consider my future bee projects. Here they are in tentative lists!


Things still to buy:

• 1 metal hive entrance
• 1 screen bottom board
• 2 queen excluders
• 2 bee escape boards
• 1 top entrance shim
• 30 shallow Pierco frames
• 2 shallow boxes
• 1 crush and drain bucket
• 1 migratory cover

Things to construct (without Monta's help this will be impossible.):

• 2 top bar hives
• 1 Warre hive
• 1 follower board to replace the one broke in Metpropolis.

Materials to read:

• G.M. Doolittle's book on queen rearing.
• Abbe Warre's Beekeeping for All.
• Any work on the Treadmill of Production theory.

Materials to review:

• Beekeeping in Northern Climates.

Supplies for Beelandia:

• white clover seed
• bird's foot trefoil seed
• sunflower seeds
• borage
• soy beans
• alfalfa seeds
• solar powered water pump for Lake No-Bee Gone.