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Prepare Your Area: As we all know, honey is extremely sticky. Every item you handle will become sticky (counter tops, tools, doorknobs, etc.) so you should contain the stickiness by working in a clean barn, on the porch, or in the garage rather than working in your kitchen.

Keep a bucket of water handy to rinse your hands and a clean towel to dry off with.

Set up all pieces of equipment and tools before handling the comb, and lay down a few drop cloths or newspapers on the floor.

Harvest In A Confined Area: Harvesting honey should be done in a closed room.  This keeps the honey clean, and it helps to keep the bees from stealing it, and bringing it back to the hive.

Warm The Honey: Warm honey flows much easier than cold honey. This will allow you to spin the honey out of the comb faster, which results in more honey being extracted from the comb.

Warm honey also flows through strainers and filters much faster, without clumping up. Honey should be heated to about eighty degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-seven degrees Celsius) for optimal flow. Use caution to ensure you do not heat the honey too much or else you may melt the wax comb.

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1. Feed Your Bees: While the bees are getting used to their new hive, or during cold weather months, you will need to provide food.

You will need to mix sugar syrup and administer it to the bees through use of a Boardman feeder, or by placing the syrup inside the top cover near the opening in the inner cover.

This type of feeding allows your bees to have access to the syrup, without attracting pests or intruders. It is important to note that bees consume a great deal when they are first establishing a hive, so make sure to check the syrup level often.

Once the bees begin to produce honey, you will no longer need to supply syrup, however you should leave some honey in the hive as a food source during the winter and early spring months.

2. Make Sure Water Is Handy: Bees need to have a proper water source, especially during warm weather months. Bees use water to cool down their hive during periods of hot and humid weather, and also use it as a dilution material during honey production.

That being said, you should never place a container of water too close to the hive because bees can drown quite easily.

3. Be Considerate: When keeping honey bees, you should always be considerate of others. Remember, you want the bees, your neighbors do not necessarily feel the same way.

A wooden fence around your hive can prove quite beneficial. Make sure you set the fence up in the same direction as the hive opening so the bees can fly over the fence and above nearby homes.

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Hive Essentials: To ensure your bees are as productive as possible, you should make sure you have some basic pieces of equipment for the hive.

These items include: telescoping and inner covers for the outer roof and the ceiling of the hive; an entrance reducer to reduce the size of the entrance; a screened bottom board for the floor of the hive to keep pests out; medium supers for the hive walls; medium frames to serve as rooms in the hive to support the comb; small cell foundations; and some type of feeder for the sugar syrup. These items are readily available at just about any beekeeping supply store.

Nucleus Hive: Sometimes called “nucs”, “a nuc”, or “a nuc box”, this hive is a smaller version, more manageable version of a traditional hive. Nucs are made to hold fewer frames and to house a smaller population of bees.

Many beginning beekeepers opt to start out with this type of hive, and bees often flourish in this setting due to the fact that the smaller space makes it easier to regulate the temperature and humidity of the colony.

Gloves: Gloves should be worn for most of the time when working with bees. Non-ventilated, thick gloves made out of pigskin or heavy rubber are the most popular choices. Ventilated gloves are not recommended since bees can easily sting through them.

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Here are three simple tips for honey beekeeping.

1. Make Sure You Have Plenty Of Space: The first and most important step to beekeeping is to make sure you have plenty of room to keep your bees. At the very least, you will need a fairly good-sized backyard to set up your hives.

Anything smaller than a large backyard is not typically recommended, and may hinder your yield.

2. Ensure You Have A Natural Food Source: You will need to make sure you have a viable food source that is close to where you will keep your hives. If the bees do not have an adequate food supply they will not be able to survive and they will not be able to produce a sufficient amount of honey.

Take a quick survey of your area to ensure there are plenty of trees and other flowering plants nearby.

While some types of bees may be willing to travel a short distance for food, most will need to have sources close to the hive.

3. Build Proper Hives: The number one reason most people fail at honey beekeeping is due to improper, or poorly built hives.

You will need to make sure you set up the frames and supers properly, and you will need to make sure the hives are constructed in a manner that you can easily access the combs, but not cause any harm to the bees. You want to keep bee comfort and space in mind at all times.

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Many beginner beekeepers jump right into the hobby without doing any research or looking into proper methods. They believe that if they just purchase all of the best, and most expensive equipment available in the supply stores they will be all set, and their bees will flourish.

The end result is the hive failing, the bees dying, and the beekeeper giving up. After spending a good deal of money, this can be quite frustrating and disappointing. The beginner beekeeper often tries to do too much too soon, with little direction.

You should always take the time to educate yourself on proper bee care, and to seek adequate beekeeping training before you begin this hobby.

You should always make sure you start off correctly with proper techniques, as bad behavior can be difficult to change later on in the process. You should understand that by spending a bit of extra time now, you will be well rewarded in the long run.

Proper beekeeping training can also help you to prevent problems caused by inferior or improper equipment.

You will learn how to construct a functioning hive for optimal bee space, as well as what dimensions the hive should be built to. You will find that this form of training is quite beneficial to both you and your bees.  When you learn what to expect, what is normal, and what needs to be done at what time of year, you will be setting yourself up for a successful hobby that you can enjoy for years to come.

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