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It's been a little slow in bee world with this weather. I'm hoping we don't have another late start to spring, and I'm going to try to slip some sugar blocks into the hives if it ever warms up.
I bottled my last 5 gallons this weekend and have been peddling it to make some cash for supplies for this spring.
On tap for this spring, I already have a couple of cutouts scheduled. I'm going to start charging for anything that I can't use a chainsaw on this year. Too much time and cost to do it for free unless it's easy. Also on tap, I'm going to convert some of my older-warped hive boxes into bee traps. Seems simple enough to do and I saw my bee team buddy have good success last year with them.
Also, this year I'm going to raise a couple of hives with comb honey to sell in mind. I'm going to cut the foundations down to 3/4" starter strips and see what happens. There is big demand for that and not a lot of supply and I aim to cash in on that if I can get my bees to cooperate.
I've seen quite a bit about bad colony losses this year, but so far I'm good. Hope you are also.
hopefully in 4-6 weeks I'll have some pics and stories to share if there is still interest in this topic.
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