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Comment by Christy Ralphs on March 14, 2011 at 5:30pm

Hi everyone - Marcia Meehan has kindly agreed to run a top bar beekeeping workshop for us on Waiheke, on Sunday 3 April from 1pm-5pm. If you are in Auckland and want to come on over to our beautiful isle you would be welcome. Cost $50. Email me on islandgardening@gmail.com if you would like to participate. Marcia will also be holding a 30minute intro talk at the Fossil Bay Harvest Fayre (58 Korora Rd, Oneroa) from 1030-1100 on the same day – koha appreciated. Look out for the signs at the fayre.

Comment by Raven on March 9, 2011 at 8:41pm

Hey everyone, just letting you all know that there's a Green Party fundraiser on for those in Wellington showing the new documentary film "Queen of the Sun". It looks really good! The trailer is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoeQodrVoM. Tickets are $25 with drinks and snacks provided. Email me at ravencretney@gmail.com if you're keen :) Thanks!

Comment by Sarah Heeringa on March 8, 2011 at 11:14pm

Hi Christy,

We have lots of high res images from when we did a feature in Good

about building your own top bar hive.  I'll see if I can dig them out.

Comment by Christy Ralphs on March 7, 2011 at 9:06am

Hi all, I'm writiing an article on beekeeping for one of our local papers, and I'm very keen to get hold of a print quality photo of a top bar beehive (i.e. 1MB or more) If you have one you would be willing to let me use (happy to credit), could you email it to www.islandgardening.com - I need it by this Wed 9 March. Thanks!!

Comment by Stillcookin on February 22, 2011 at 7:40pm

I pray that you are all safe.

Comment by Stillcookin on February 17, 2011 at 6:57pm

Kiwimana's Beekeeping Blog

What an awesome job of beekeeping you are doing. Your mite count looks managable. If it gets worse, the is always food grade mineral oil. It works well for me. The Pseudoscorpion is very interesting. Someone is doing a study on them to see how well they control mites in hives, in larger numbers.

 

Keep up the good work.

Comment by Gary and Margaret - Kiwimana on February 17, 2011 at 12:45pm

The recommend amount is three times over a 21 day period, thats once a week to ensure you get the new mites that are safe inside the cells.

 

Yes we do mites counts on all our hives and put this information on our blog at http://kiwimana.co.nz

 

See ya...Gary

Comment by Stillcookin on February 16, 2011 at 8:02pm

How often will you do the shake? Are you monitoring your mite drop? Would like to know the results.

Comment by Gary and Margaret - Kiwimana on February 16, 2011 at 5:21pm

We have created a small movie on YouTube about how to Sugar Shake a Bee Hive.

 

To access the movie use this link:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp9uaoGZYKM

 

It pretty much explains how to do it, but if anyone has any further questions the feel free to email me at info@kiwimana.co.nz.

 

We are trying to avoid using pesticides in our hives this year if we can help it.  For those new Bee Keepers there is alternatives to using chemicals.

 

Thanks

 

Gary and Margaret

http://kiwimana.co.nz

 

Comment by Janet Luke on February 3, 2011 at 7:23am

Got lots of wax from your hive? This is how I made a Solar wax melter ( from recycled materials) to filter and clean all my bees wax from my Top Bar Hive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSekQk2Zc9Y

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