The Solar wax melter is really the best way to deal with wax for any beekeeper who doesn’t live in the Arctic. In this video, I show a simple solar wax melter thats good if you have 1 or 2 hives. Then I show a larger one that is for beekeepers with many hives.
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beekeeping in Guinea (3 of 3) wax products
See www3.telus.net for recipes See www3.telus.net for more information on Farmer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development. Rural development agents from the Fédération des apiculteurs de Guinée, and OIC’s Food and Livelyhood Security Pita and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer provided rural bee-tending groups with suggestions for manufacturing value-added products such as candles, moisturizing cream and soap in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea.
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Tagged apicultural, Beekeeping, bees, beeswax, candles, cream, development, lotion, moisturing, pomade, soap
beekeeping in Guinea (2 of 3) equipment
See www3.telus.net for more information on Farmer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development. Rural development agents from the Fédération des apiculteurs de Guinée, and OIC’s Food and Livelyhood Security Pita and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer provided appropriate technology solutions to bee-keeping challenges in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea.
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Tagged apicultural, Bar, Beekeeping, bees, beeswax, development, Farmer-to-Farmer, Guinea, hives, Kenya, KTBH, melter, Top, wax
how to i get started with super small scale beekeeping single hive?
i LOVE using beeswax and i want to “grow my own” but i dont want a full scale bee farm just a single small hive that i can take wax capings from every once in a while…the bees can keep the honey. is that possible? how would i take the cappings? is there a premade single hive or easy plan on makeing one, i want as little maintnance as possible, just let the bees live there lives and ill take the wax. no getting stung to death would be nice to
Bee Keeping 101: The Sweetness of God’s Creation
Later in the video, Ken talks about the Bees as created creatures by God. God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example: The eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days. The eggs of the canary in 14 days. The eggs of the barnyard hen in 21 days. The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; The eggs of the mallard in 35 days. The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by Seven). Wonder why your life is a mess? The lives of each …
