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Making Your Own Pollen Patties To Feed Your Bees
Raising Bees is not an inexpensive hobby…..just ask any of your Bee Keeping friends. I still remember our excitement when we first picked up our bees! Not everyone agrees with feeding the bees but my...
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Building Your Own Bottom Boards For Your Bee Hives
This past weekend the Viking in my life built some bottom boards for our bee hive. It was a project that went fairly quickly one of those projects to do over the Thanksgiving weekend. He fashioned a...
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The love of Bee Keeping
My husband loves his bees! Here is a video of him inspecting the bee hives today! I was quiet actually so there is no chatter on the video but here in coastal North Carolina it was a beautiful day...
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All About Bees – Searching For Queen Cells
This is the time of year when lots of Bee Keeping Clubs have field days for their members….my husband and I have been so busy on hour homestead we have not been able to make it to one of them and we...
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Putting Your Garden On The Map
You know it is a good idea to keep a garden plan around especially if you are like me and not the most organized so you can remember what you did in the first place. Also it can help you NOT to have...
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Our First “Itty Bitty” Honey Harvest
So we have waited..days…..weeks…months…waited for the first glimpse of the golden elixir we call honey and finally the day came where we could at least harvest a wee bit of honey because one of our...
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The Viking Splits The Hives
My husband really loves beekeeping and one of his goals this Spring has been to keep a close eye on them so that he splits our hives before they swarm and has a new hive started. We started last year...
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We are in the honey………honey!
This year since it is our first year harvesting the honey of of our hives. We decided to start slow to figure this whole thing out and to get our process down. My husband and I rented the honey...
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Can You Spy The Queen?
When my husband and I took our Bee Keeping course and we got our Bee Keeping Certifications one of the items that our instructor told us was that people have a very difficult time spotting the queens...
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A Magical Moment In The Life Of A Beekeeper
My husband the Viking in my life recently spied some swarm cells in one of our hives and he knew it was time to split the hives but due to the fact that we both work full-time and are extremely busy...
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It’s Officially Sticky Door Knob Season: The Honey Extraction Photos
This is one of our favorite and most exhausting times of the year! However I wanted to share with all of you some of our photos of our honey extraction process. I actually ran into a co-worker at...
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Our Beautiful Golden Honey Harvest & It’s Sweet Delicious Fragrance
“the bee…gathers it’s materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of it’s own.” Leonardo Davinci It is very hard to get any major projects done...
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Happy Birthday To Us & A Month Of Giveaways
This month we celebrate our Lil’ Suburban Homestead’s 3rd Birthday! We have an exciting month ahead and I am so glad you are all joining in on the celebration! Here is the line up for this month!...
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Our Honey Giveaway For Our 3rd Birthday Celebration!
As you all know we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday all month-long and every Friday this month we are having a giveaway so that you can be part of the celebration! This honey is from our apiary “The...
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Close Up On Our Bees
My husband absolutely loves bee keeping but bee keeping isn’t one of those easy hobbies it’s a lot of work and it’s not an out of the textbook kind of hobby. A lot of intuition is involved and...
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Make Sure To Tune In Each Week To The Survival Mom Radio Network!
As you all know I am so enjoying being a part of the “Stellar” line up of all female radio show hosts at The Survival Mom Radio Network! These women are so amazing…..I have listened to a lot of shows...
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Bee Friendly Garden Kit Giveaway – Ends This Saturday!!!!
Hi everyone! There is still time to enter a fantastic giveaway at “Runamuk Acres” we are likeminded homesteading bloggers and well her blog is just a joy to read trust me and if you haven’t visited...
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From The Farm Blog Hop & Yummy Grain Free Pancakes
Hoping you all have had a wonderful week! I know I have but it’s also been extremely busy! We celebrated our daughter’s 22nd birthday this week I just can’t even believe it….where have the years gone?...
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I Am Now A Co-Host On The Simple Saturdays Blog Hop Come On & Join The Fun!
Welcome to Simple Saturdays Blog Hop This blog hop is brought to you by a group of wonderful co-hosts committed to the Simple way of Life and learning to be Self Reliant in all they do. Simple...
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Simple Saturdays Blog Hop #24
Welcome to Simple Saturdays Blog Hop This blog hop is brought to you by a group of wonderful co-hosts committed to the Simple way of Life and learning to be Self Reliant in all they do. Simple...
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