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S&F Honey Farm: Pulling a Queen Frame
S & F Honey Farm Apiculture presentation participant Enrique looks on as Stan pulls out a queen frame from a bee box that’s designed for the cultivation of queen bees.
S&F Honey Farm: Smoker
Stan explains how to charge the smoker with pine needles. He states the importance of not over smoking the bees in the hive.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Home Greenhouse
Beekeeper Fred Yarnell standing in the greenhouse attached to his home. Mr. Yarnell welcomed the Raíces Apiculture Initiative for a visit to his home and apiary and talked to us about his beekeeping experiences and equipment.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Styrofoam beehive box
Styrofoam beehive bee box at beekeeper Fred Yarnell’s home. This particular box is in the Langstroth model, but the only wood components are the frames inside.
Bee Box Construction: Base Board
Constructing sides of base board for a bee box. A wood router is used to bore out grooves on white pine pieces to later insert plywood base board.
Bee Box Construction: Completed Base Board
Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez holds finished bee box base board. Base board is made of white pine and plywood.
Apiculture Initiative: Raíces Bees
Raíces’ bees hanging out on the front rest board of their hive. These are Italian Apis Mellifera bees.
Bee Box Construction: Making Hive Frames
Using a wood router on a jig table to make hive frames.
Bee Box Construction: Checking Frame Measurements
Unfinished bee box. Inserting bee frame into box to check correct size.
Bee Box Construction: Cutting Slats for Bee Frame
Cutting a bee frame slat to size on a 10” Sears table saw.
Bee Box Construction: Unfinished Box
Unfinished Langstroth bee box and inserted frames.
Bee Box Construction: First Completed Raíces Apiculture Bee Box
Raíces finishes construction of their first Langstroth bee box.
Bee Box Construction: Nicole with Raíces Apiculture Bee Box
Nicky stands next to our first completed Langstroth bee box .
Bee Box Construction: Francisco with Raíces Apiculture Bee Box
Francisco stands next to our first completed Langstroth bee box.
S&F Honey Farm: Bee Box
This is one of Stan’s bee boxes, he explains the entrance reducer he devised for his bees.
S&F Honey Farm: Beekeeping Presentation
Stan explains the inner workings of a bee box to participants in his Apiculture presentation and honey farm tour.
S&F Honey Farm: Honeycomb
Enrique holds up a piece of honey comb for all of us to see on the Raíces Apiculture Initiative trip to S & F Honey Farm.
S&F Honey Farm: Beehive Frame with Honeycomb
Bee frame foundation packed with honey
S&F Honey Farm: Honey
During the Apiculture presentation by Stan Wasitowski at S & F Honey Farms, participants were able to taste the honey produced at the farm directly out of the beehive frames.
Here, Stan holds a bee frame packed with honey and Angela samples it.
Here, Stan holds a bee frame packed with honey and Angela samples it.
S&F Honey Farm: Tasting the Honey
Presentation and tour participant Angela Lugo tasting some honey from a bee frame at S & F Honey Farm.
S&F Honey Farm: Learning About Mites
S & F Honey Farm tour participant Jennifer holds up a jar filled with dead mites that attack the bees in a hive.
Apiculture Initiative: Nucleus Hive
Nucleus Hive: This is a starter Nuc that is already populated with a queen and bees. The population is later transitioned or split into a bee box/s.
Apiculture Initiative: Transitioning a Nucleus Hive
Raíces Co-Director Francisco is transitioning a nucleus hive into a friend’s new bee box. He has to smoke the nuc before moving the bees to their new home.
Apiculture Initiative: Placing a Bee Box
Susan Winkler, one of the first community members to contact Raíces regarding our Apiculture Initiative and to find out where to get her first bee colony and beekeeping equipment, preparing a new bee box for her bees.
Apiculture Initiative: Placing a Bee Box
As part of the Raíces Apiculture Initiative, Raíces Co-Directors helped our friend and supporter Susan Winkler obtain and set up her first bee hive. Here, Francisco and Sue are moving nuc bee frames into new bee box.