Backwards Beekeeper Kirk Anderson (aka Kirkobeeo) shows how to make starter strips and put them in your hive frames. Starter strips are the Backwards Beekeepers’ alternative to the wax foundation traditionally used in beehive frames; the wax sheets sold commercially usually come from hives that use chemicals and fungicides. Letting your bees draw their own comb also means that they’ll build cells that are the size they want, not the size you tell them to build. This means you get bees that …
Since seeing a colony that had to be relocated from a barn being restored and hearing about “wild” hives having greater vitality I wondered about this type of beekeeping. That was over 12 years ago and this is the first lead I’ve found that makes sense. Backward beekeeping just might push me over the edge toward actually beekeeping.
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