This blog will be used as the place for Dr. Bartlett's high school students to post and comment on Biblical thinking in science and math as applied to practical life and seen in God's awesome creation.
i enjoyed the video, but i was wondering why you said the queen bee couldnt go to the top of the box? you said there was a screen that let the other bees besides her go there?
The queen excluder keeps the queen from going into the honey supers. If the queen laid brood, then the brood died or even if it didn't die, you probably wouldn't want that to show up on your breakfast cereal with your honey! Just not sanitary.
That was a cool video i enjoyed it. I have always liked bees just not when they sting me! Maybe i need one of those white suits. I always thought it was crazy how productive they are for their tiny size. Is the honey you get is pretty good?
You could start bee keeping yourself. It is easy and fun. Here is my favorite supply company: http://brushymountainbeefarm.com The beekeepers handbook is the best book to get.
I liked that video. I thought it was educational and fun to watch. Do you sell the honey that they make in order to kind of make up for paying for the bees and all the equipment?
We are working that direction. We want to first supply all our own honey needs. We can use about 300lbs a year, just our family of six. We do use business proformas for each farm product we sell and have roughed one out for the bees, but since I am still in the experimental stage with them, I won't try to sell for another year or two, that is if I have all my wintering problems solved, which I think I do, just need another winter to see if I can do the same thing twice in a row. It gets to be -40 F here, and that is the challenge.
Dr. Barttlet I really enjoyed the video and I would love to try some of your honey some time...hahaha. Seriously though I would really like to get in to that some day but not any time soon because my dad is deathly alergic to bees so......
You know Andrew the whole selling honey is a good idea and mabe go a little bigger with the qantity of bee hives you know expand a little. Rember every one was scared that the bees were going to disapear and if you are the one with the bees every one will want you to polinate their plants.
ND is big on honey since there are so many fields, the big bee keeper nearest us, runs 20,000 hives with only 19 people in the company. They travel the country when the weather gets cold here.
You could do that and come see us in Arizona! We dont need to worry to much about the snow thing.But moving everything sounds like a bunch of work although preparing for winter takes work also i would guess.
Bees are really cool creatures. I think they show us an example of a perfect society, and it's amazing how God made such small creatures with such complex lives. Everything has to work together just right, and it shows what God is like. My family actually raises bees, although they aren't doing to well. We had to deal with a swarm a couple months ago, it was pretty exciting.
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