The Yellow Cottage Homestead
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Bees
Beehive honey harvest in May
· Bees · honey
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TikTok: watching the Turquoise beehive
· Bees · TikTok · Video
A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching activity on the Turquoise beehive:
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TikTok: watching a beehive
· Bees · TikTok · Video
A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of watching one of our beehives:
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Beehive inspection and mite treatments
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TikTok: trying to record bees, but chickens too noisy
· Bees · Chickens · TikTok · Trees · Video
A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of trying to record the sound of hundreds of bees in a flowering tree, but the chickens were being too noisy:
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First beehive inspection of 2021
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TikTok: our beehives
· Bees · TikTok · Video
My most popular @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video so far was this simple pan over our beehives; I guess people enjoy the bright colors (we do too):
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Ice storm: generator, chickens, ducks, bees
· Bees · Chickens · Ducks · Electrical · Pond · Snow & Ice
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Bee shed: design
· Bees · Building · Shopping · bee shed
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January snow and aerial photos
· Aerial · Bees · Ducks · Greenhouse · Landscaping · Pond · Snow & Ice · Trees
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Beehives re-treatments and feeding
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Beehive treatments and feeders
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Flow honey harvest and removing supers
· Bees · honey
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Ducklings day 53
· Bees · Ducks · Pond · ducklings 2020
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Beehive tweaks in July 2020
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Beehive inspection in July 2020
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Ducklings day 22
· Bees · Ducks · ducklings 2020
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Slow-motion bees in the bee pool
· Bees · Video
We have a pool from which our bees can drink, filled with rocks for them to land on so they don't drown. This is a slow-motion recording of bees drinking and flying above the pool.
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Beehive inspection: new roof, a couple more boxes, etc
· Bees
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Two new nucs
· Bees · Shopping
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