tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19479975853349583952024-02-17T03:48:18.767-05:00gardening in the boroughs of nycmeemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.comBlogger770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-33325685118012368022015-08-19T13:52:00.001-04:002015-08-19T13:55:16.616-04:00Last Day to View Live Beehive Sculpture at the MoMAToday is the last day to visit Pierre Huyghe's Untitled (Reclining Nude) at the Museum of Modern Art. I went on Monday to see this sculpture in person and it is a beauty. The sculpture is located in the sculpture garden on the first floor of the museum. I love the sculpture garden, it's a great place to get a cup of coffee and just soak in the art around you.
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I loved this sign that they had on the door right before you enter the sculpture garden. I must say, the beekeeper in me got super excited to see the colony!
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The live colony of bees is meant to be the women's head and brain. The hive and sculpture is placed under a tree in the center of the garden. Can you see it? Look closely. The tree really hid it well, if it wasn't for the sign on the door, I would imagine some people would have missed this piece all together because you couldn't really tell there was a beehive under the tree unless you were looking for it.
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Here is a closer view of it. The bees were so calm. There were a few flying around but mostly they were tending to the hive. I am so proud of the MoMA for taking the initiative of having a live bee colony on the premises of the museum's garden where visitors can see it up close and personal. In an urban environment like New York City, it's difficult to see a beehive this up close unless you know a beekeeper or know where beehives are located. As a beekeeper in Brooklyn, I have had many people complain about my bees being in close proximity to neighbors and the street. But honeybees for the most part are very docile. I know that some people are allergic to bee sting so it does concern certain people. However, honeybees won't sting you unless they feel like the hive is being threatened in any way, so as long as you keep a good distance away from the hive, they won't go after you.
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Here is a closer look of the sculpture. I was so impressed by it. It really is so beautiful how the honeybees created the wax comb as a perfect oblong head. It was beautiful. I wish this piece could be a permanent sculpture at the museum. See it today, it's the last day! Here is a <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1593" target="_blank">link about the sculpture</a>.<br />
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-54719975281721828292015-08-05T19:56:00.003-04:002015-08-05T19:56:49.842-04:00The Queen is alive!We're more than half way done with this beekeeping season and things are going as well as can be. Here we are inspecting the overwintered hive.
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At our last inspection, I didn't see any brood, and was so worried that the hive could potentially be Queenless. But, I was so thrilled to see that the Queen is alive and laying perfect brood! Look at this gorgeous deep frame of brood. It's so lovely. We were literally jumping for joy because I feared that the Queen had died. But she is alive and well and doing awesome.
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Not only is the hive doing exceedingly well, they are making gorgeous frames of honey. Just look how beautiful these frames of honey are! I am getting so excited to harvest! I can barely wait!
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At my second hive, the other Queen is also laying well! We found lots of perfect brood!
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Here's a close up of one of the frames. The pollen on the bottom looks amazing, and they have capped honey on top. This is beautiful.
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Even Oscar the kitty was in the beekeeping mood! He's not afraid of the bees at all!
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-81152800971509528872015-07-16T23:07:00.001-04:002015-07-16T23:07:31.214-04:00Where's the Brood?So during this weekend's beekeeping session, I am completely bummed because I didn't see any brood in the hive. I'm fearing the worst, that either I injured the Queen at the last beekeeping inspection, or she may have swarmed. At the last inspection, I saw frame after frame of brood, so this is heartbreaking.
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I did see brood inside the split that I made, so I decided to recombine the split to the original hive. In the split I saw 2 swarm cups and a supersedure cup empty, so a virgin queen was born and has mated. Hopefully, the hive will take to this Queen and she will be productive as the last one.
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Despite all the disappointments, there was some good news, in the honey super there are 3 frames of honey! I can't wait until there are 10 frames of honey so we can do a harvest!
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-51789929285778915142015-07-08T12:10:00.001-04:002015-07-08T12:11:05.457-04:00The bees are doing well!Two weeks ago, I visited the beehive and it's looking amazing! I arrived at the first backyard and was blown away by the pretty garden! It is so lush and green!
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Lilies are now in bloom!
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The hydrangea are also in bloom! Isn't this so pretty!
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The bees must be so happy living here. The beehives look great nestled in the flora.
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At the second beehive location, the hive is doing extremely well. The Queen is laying perfect brood! I found 3 boxes full of brood, she is such a prolific layer!
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And the top box has frames of honey! I think we shall be able to harvest honey soon!
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Since the hive is very full, and I saw signs of swarm cells, I decided to split the hive and move some new larvae frames into a new box. I also added some honey frames. With any luck, they will raise a new virgin Queen and this will be a new colony!
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The original hive looks like a skyscraper compared to the new box!
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I'm so excited with how well this hive is doing! I can't wait to do the next hive inspection!
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-74926999654152680182015-06-24T22:27:00.001-04:002015-06-24T22:28:08.933-04:00Forgot to Post This Beekeeping DayI have been so busy this month, that I forgot to post this beekeeping day! Last month, on my birthday, I went beekeeping. I was so happy to see that one of the Queens have been laying lots and lots of brood! This makes me super happy!<br />
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The hive was super active. This is how the hive looked after I inspected it. The bees were flying around.
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I love these bees! They are so docile! Really happy bees, and very mellow. Which is quite lovely.
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At one of the beehive locations, the roses are in full bloom. Isn't this just gorgeous??
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I just love filming these bees in slow motion. I can watch this footage for hours!
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-78870978543110460222015-05-26T14:10:00.000-04:002015-05-26T14:11:48.976-04:00Honeybees in Iris HeavenLast weekend when I arrived to do a hive inspection, I was so blown away by how pretty Emily's backyard looked. There was a sea of irises and allium blooming! So pretty!<br />
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This is my favorite time of year! Isn't this just stunning! I just love spring flowers, and they best thing about bulbs is that they naturally split, so year after year, more and more bloom! Look closely, you can even see bleeding hearts blooming too!<br />
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I brought our dog to beekeeping for the first time. And she loved it. Valentina spent the day exploring the backyard.
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The alliums are so pretty against the lush green! <br />
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The beehive looks amazing! I added an additional honey super box on top of the beehive. I already saw evidence of them making honey!
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I was using a feeder on this hive, but since there are so many flowers in bloom now, there is no longer a need for a feeder. I removed the feeder and found that the bees have made some burr comb to fill in the space. It was very pretty! I removed all the burr comb.<br />
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It was a perfect beekeeping day. Can't wait to see how the season progresses! Hope to get a good honey flow this season!<br />
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-45469548563956710092015-05-20T23:37:00.000-04:002015-05-20T23:37:08.611-04:00Naturally friendly productsI'm a huge fan of eco-friendly and natural products. As a member of Influenster, I was sent a package of Hello Products.
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The first thing I noticed when I opened the package was that the packaging is absolutely beautiful! It's bright and modern, and my first thought was, this looks cooler than ordinary toothpaste and breath spray! It's so pretty, that I would definitely leave these on the counter of my bathroom vanity! Inside the package was a toothbrush that is made from 50% recycled materials. Pretty awesome. The toothpaste has safe ingredients. It is all alcohol free and is free from artificial sweeteners, and dyes. Love that. And the flavors were so interesting and different. In my box was Mojito Mint and Pink Grapefruit. It tasted like a yummy drink and it cleans your teeth! Score!<br />
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My favorite product in the box are the breath sprays. I've been keeping them in my purse for the on the go instant fresh. They are amazing! hashtag instafresh!<br />
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But the cherry blossoms are the star, it's just spectacular how beautiful these blooms were at the park. It just took my breath away, wow.
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I take a walk through the park near us almost everyday, and it always have some surprises. Today I spotted these pretty bleeding hearts. I love this plant. The foilage is a little boring, but then it has these incredible flowers. Just stunning. Spring is quite easily my favorite season. I just wish the blooms lasted longer!
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I did a hive inspection of the overwintered hive and the Queen is laying really well. Perfect brood pattern. My only concern was that on the left there looks to be two supercedure cells forming. I didn't remove them and let the bees do what they do. If they decide to replace the overwinter Queen, I will let them be, to see what they do. They know more about the health of their Queen than I do.<br />
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Here is a closer view of the brood. You can see that there is larvae in those Queen supercedure cups.
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I moved the brood box to the bottom and put two more boxes above it to allow the Queen to go up and have plenty of room to lay eggs. I really love how the blooming tree looks next to the beehive.
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Here is a video of our other beehive in slow motion. I could watch this for hours.
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The bees were building a lot of burr comb, so I removed all of it. I'm so happy the hives are doing well! I'm still feeding the bees sugar water because we are still waiting for the neighborhood to start blooming. Look forward to the next inspection!<br />
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-35211085013804177492015-04-25T20:24:00.000-04:002015-04-25T20:24:02.898-04:00Installing a new bee package for 2015Two weeks ago, I went over to my friend Amy's house to check on her beehive. She installed a new bee package on her rooftop hive and it was looking good. Her kids help her beekeep too! I love that. Teaching a whole new generation of beekeepers!<br />
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Then I went over to my hives to install a new package since one of our hives did not survive. My friend Amy picked up the bee packages from <a href="http://www.beehivebarn.com/shop/" target="_blank">Beehive Barn</a> in Cranbury, NJ. This year, I decided to do the gentle install of the bee package instead of pouring the bees out of the box. <br />
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To do this, you remove the Queen box and put it in between two beehive frames. Then you leave the open bee package box next to the frames in the deep. The bees will come out of the box to find the Queen. This is a more gentle way of getting the bees out instead of pouring them out of the box. Here is the Queen at the top of the Queen box.<br />
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Here is the hive all installed! In 3 days time, I come back to check that the Queen bee is released from the Queen box by her attendants. They will eat the sugar plug to let her out. We named this Queen George Lee. Long live the Queen!
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-11202255441262474892015-04-15T23:15:00.001-04:002015-04-15T23:20:03.786-04:00First day of beekeeping season 2015On April 4th, it was finally warm enough to open up our hives for the first time this season. I was so nervous to see if any of our 3 hives survived. At the first hive, I didn't see any bees flying in and out of the hive. This is always a bad sign.<br />
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I unwrapped the hives only to find frame after frame of dead bees. The whole hive of frames had mold. And on this frame you can see all the bees clustered together trying to stay warm. Moisture and mold killed these bees. I feel so sad.
All these frames along with the honey went into the garbage. I don't want to reuse frames that have mold on them. It might be diseased as well and I don't want our new bees getting sick from it.
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We decided that we were going to purchase a new package of bees to install into this hive.
Then I went to our other beehive location. I saw bees flying around and already knew that this was a good sign. One of the two hives in this location had survived the winter! What a relief!!
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I was smiling, grinning actually from ear to ear. This makes me sooooo happy! We had a really harsh winter with lots of cold days and snow. So to know that this hive survived is pretty amazing!
Here is another video of a closeup of the hive.
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I moved the hive back to it's original location and removed all the tar paper wrapping. So happy to see the bees flying around!
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I received an email from my beehost yesterday and it was extremely bad
news. This past Sunday, it went up to 47F degrees. And some of the bees
ventured out of one of our beehives. But unfortunately, they were
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The bees became disoriented and could not find there way back to the
beehive. These warm spells are the worst because they get tricked into
thinking it's spring and so they will come out of the hive to forage and
look for food. But with the snow all over the ground, they become confused.<br />
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Seeing all these honeybees frozen, trying to get back to the hive makes me so sad and want to cry. I feel heartbroken. I really hope there are enough bees inside the hive to keep the Queen alive. I almost can't wait until the end of next month to open the hive and see what's going on inside. <br />
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I don't know why they do this to the poor Ground Hog. Why they need all this pomp and circumstance for a silly holiday? Leave the poor Ground Hogs alone! Poor Charlotte, may you rest in peace, and shame on you Mayor de Blasio. The next time you run for office, you officially lost my vote!! I hope you didn't drop this year's Ground Hog, which was their offspring. <br />
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This weekend, I had one of the most amazing meals. We took mom out for her birthday and we had quite the Chinese feast. Everything was so delicious! I grew up eating this, so this is my comfort food. I don't get to eat it as often as I like but we definitely try to on special occasions.
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These sedum plants were in front of our hotel. So pretty!
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Also on Alcatraz Island, there were these giant peace lily plants. The bloom was the size of my head!
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On the Alcatraz tour, they said that the inmates used to garden the land to pass the time. You can tell how well they landscaped it. Here is another photo of the peace lilies.
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In the gift shop at Alcatraz, they even sold seeds from wildflowers from around the gardens on Alcatraz Island. I wanted to buy the bag of seeds, but they were a little pricey at $15 a bag. Plus, I no longer have a garden to grow in so I didn't buy it.<br />
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I loved the leaves on this plant. This is a tropical plant, looked like a type of elephant ear to me. I'm not sure what the name is. The leaves were enormous!
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Here is a close up of the leaves. It was easily 2 feet tall. And had a very waxy shiny texture to the leaf. I loved it!
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Everywhere we went in San Francisco, there were these amazing views! Look at this view from Coit Tower! Just phenomenal!
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I ended up taking a piece of San Francisco greenery with me. Here is a cutting of a sedum plant. I placed it in a coffee cup and it flew back with me. I planted this in a pot of soil, I hope it grows roots soon!
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We then put the inner cover and staple a mesh over the hole of the inner cover. We staple mesh to the hole because we don't want any bees climbing up to the box above it.
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Above it, we then put an empty super on top of the sugar box and fill it with cedar chips. Cedar naturally keeps the pests at bay, such as mites, fleas, ticks, termites etc. The cedar chips also helps with the moisture, it wicks away any of the condensation that builds up. We also drill a little hole in this box to help with ventilation.
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We wrap the entire hive with tar paper to help insulate it and keep out the moisture.
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I always get a little sad when I wrap the hives for the winter. It'll be months before I see them again. The Buddha statue will hopefully watch over the ladies and hope they all survive the winter.
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Here are the hives all wrapped up. See you in the spring ladies.
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Of the 4 hives, we only could pull 10 frames of honey. Way less than last year's harvest. Last year <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2013/09/fall-harvest-2013.html" target="_blank">we pulled 18 frames</a> in the Fall and we had less hives!.
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But at least we had a harvest. Our first year we didn't have anything to harvest. So we are glad to have some honey.
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It's amazing to me that these two frames of honey are from the same hive! The top one is likely from early summer and the bottom one was made recently, late summer. Just beautiful and two different taste profiles!
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I love scraping the wax off the frames. It's almost therapeutic.
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Can you believe how dark this honey is? Some of the frames of honey was this really deep black coffee color! Now that is rich fall honey!
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And when it starts flowing, oh my gosh. It smells incredible. Like you want to dunk your head in it!
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The flow of raw harvested honey! Yum!! #honeybee #honey #beehive #beekeeper #beekeeping #brooklynbees</div>
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A quick video to demonstrate what I mean. If only there was a smell app!
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After we harvested the five frames of honey and split them up between the four of us (2 beehosts & 2 beekeepers) this is what each of us ended up taking home. 1 quart & 1 pint jar. This was the saddest harvest ever! But, at least we got a harvest.
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I'm going to savor every last drop of this precious drop of my local Brooklyn honey!
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-68966666999392576152014-07-26T15:29:00.001-04:002014-07-26T15:33:34.829-04:00Frustrations of Urban Beekeeping Part 2<style>
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urban environment can be very <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2014/07/frustrations-of-urban-beekeeping.html" target="_blank">frustrating and disheartening</a>. This past weekend,
the frustrations continued. When we went to the first beehive location, we were
shocked to see that there was yet again, another huge die off of bees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Has this ever happened to your hives? What did you do to combat this?</span><br />
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I’m not exactly sure what is causing
the bees to die off in this manner. We are looking into moving this hive to
another location in hopes that whatever is causing this will stop. Luckily, when we opened the hive, the bees looked healthy. They <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-heartbreaking-inspection.html" target="_blank">weren't disoriented like last time</a>.<br />
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There was also pretty good numbers of bees, so the hive had healthy numbers as well. We saw that the Queen was laying very good brood. So that is a good sign that it hasn't affected the inside of the hive. We suspect the die off the bees are likely the foragers. Hopefully with the Queen laying well, the foragers will be replaced with the newly hatching brood.</div>
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We pulled some frames and they were also building out wax and filling the frames with honey.</div>
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We looked inside our other hive and they have also been busy with making honey. In fact, they built some honey on top of the frames.<br />
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That looked and smelled so incredible, so we scraped these off the frames. And had a little taste for ourselves. Oh wow, is this every good! Floral, sweet, deliciousness!<br />
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After beekeeping duties were done, I saw that my favorite Cesar's taco truck was sitting outside the subway station.<br />
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I picked up one of these beauties. This is a chicken empanada. It's a perfect snack after beekeeping. Yum.<br />
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meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-35188777900446544022014-07-15T14:17:00.000-04:002014-07-15T14:17:03.063-04:00Making Sourdough Pizza!I have <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2014/05/sourdough-starter-monster.html" target="_blank">lots of sourdough starter</a> and have been looking for ways to use it. I found a <a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-pizza-crust-recipe" target="_blank">sourdough pizza recipe</a> that uses up one whole starter! Sweet! I decided to give it a try!<br />
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I followed the recipe and let it rise. Then I put the pizza dough in a ziploc bag to make pizza the next day. Since the dough takes awhile to rise, it's best to start this in the morning or early afternoon if you want pizza for dinner. Or do as I did and put the dough in the fridge for the next day.<br />
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Rolled out the dough and added marinara sauce and cheese.<br />
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This came out soooooo good! The pizza didn't come out as crispy as I liked so I'll have to see if I can invest in a pizza stone. I'll definitely try this recipe again when I want to get rid of some of my sourdough starter. Do you use starter? What do you bake with it?<br />
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<br />meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-71133913191556234012014-07-11T11:25:00.001-04:002014-07-11T11:29:58.783-04:00Frustrations of Urban BeekeepingI love beekeeping, but sometimes it can be frustrating in an urban environment. Especially when you have neighbors that don't want you there. Two weeks ago, at my last inspection, I arrived to the backyard where I keep two of my hives. It's a beautiful yard, full of blooming flowers. I was getting ready to do an inspection, I started up the smoker. Only to be greeted by an angry neighbor behind the fence, screaming at me. In a very angry voice she was shouting at me to stop what I was doing and to not open the hives or continue with my inspection because she had guests in her backyard for a party. I was going to comply with her requests, and then she starts threatening to call the police on me. Upon which I stated, "Go ahead, call the police. My beehives are registered with the Department of Health. These hives are completely legal to own and have." I proceeded to tell her that she didn't have to scream at me in that manner and all she had to to was ask nicely to not do the inspection, and I would have complied. Apparently, she was stung by a bee the previous day, and now she feels scared of them. But how does she know they were my bees? And what if it was a yellowjacket, or wasp, or hornet? They all can be mistaken for honeybees. I now feel frustrated with having my hives here, if there is a chance that I will be accosted every time I show up for an inspection. I can tell she seems pretty unreasonable to talk to, since every time I tried to calm her down, she would talk over me loudly. People like that don't care that honeybees are an integral part of the eco-system, and that without them and their pollination, we wouldn't have the fruits and vegetables we consume.<br />
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Have you ever experienced something like this? It makes me really sad and start to rethink the location of this hive. Would I need to move it elsewhere? Somewhere where there are less neighbors perhaps? I have an upcoming inspection this Sunday. I'll have to see if I get into another verbal altercation with this neighbor. Hopefully, she has calmed down a bit. Fingers crossed.<br />
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<br />meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-46484698573839380522014-06-27T11:45:00.001-04:002014-06-27T11:45:36.568-04:00Forgotten Spring PhotosI downloaded photos off of my phone and found some I completely forgot to post on this blog. The photos show how amazing the spring flowers are in one of the gardens where we keep our beehives in Brooklyn. Don't these irises look amazing? I wonder if the honeybees like them.<br />
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Here's a view from another angle. Way in the back are the beehives.<br />
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A closeup of the irises. So pretty!<br />
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Closer to the hive are some blooming alliums. I just love these flowers. They remind me of cotton balls!<br />
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Here is our other beehive location. The fun part of this location is that we are always greeted by Oscar the kitty who lives at this location. He loves it when we are doing a beekeeping inspection. He watches us beekeep the entire time.<br />
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On this day, we also had to build our bee nucleus that we purchased. I've been wanting to raise bee nucleuses for awhile. I finally went ahead and ordered a kit.<br />
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And here is the nucleus completely built. It looks awesome! I can't wait to raise nucs!!<br />
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<br />meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-78470987885596362662014-06-21T00:37:00.001-04:002014-06-21T00:39:22.724-04:00A Heartbreaking InspectionLast week, <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2014/06/installing-my-new-bee-nucleus.html" target="_blank">we installed two new bee nucleuses</a> into 2 of our hives. Therefore, we were excited to do an inspection to check on the status of the installed nucs. A bee nucleus is a miniature hive that you can purchase instead of a bee package. It usually consists of 4 - 5 frames with a laying Queen, and the frames should contain brood, pollen, and honey. I just love the look of the old nuc frames next to the new bee frames in our new hive!
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The new bee Nucleus is looking great, the Queen is laying well and there was pollen in the frames which meant they have been foraging well. However, what's not looking great is the green hive. For the 3rd week in a row, we've seen a pile of dead bees in front of the hive. It's completely heartbreaking. We think it's probably a poisoning of some sort, most likely pesticide spray. We thought by now that whatever the bees were exposed to would have gone away from all the rain we've been getting. But seeing this means they are still being afflicted. Not knowing who is spraying makes this incredibly frustrating. Because the bees are obviously feeding on sprayed plants.<br />
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We saw a lot of bees on their backs unable to flip themselves around.<br />
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I took this video of the honeybee on her back. When I pulled the cover, she was moving her legs trying to flip over, but she did not have the strength to do so.<br />
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I filmed the front entrance of the hive as well. The bees in the front were walking around disoriented and shaking their bodies. They don't normally act like this. It makes me extremely sad.<br />
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Here is the inside of the hive. More of the same strange behavior. The only thing we can really do is to wait and see if the bees can overcome this. Hopefully there are still enough worker bees in the hive to get all the tasks done in the beehive. Luckily, the Queen is still alive and laying well. Since she is still alive and healthy, we have hope the hive will bounce back. We had pesticide poisoning happen to <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2012/07/lessons-learned.html" target="_blank">our hives before</a> in the past and the hive never recovered from it. The numbers dwindled and they didn't make it through the winter because there weren't enough of them to keep warm. Hopefully this is early enough in the season that the Queen will keep continuing to lay and the numbers will go up.<br />
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Next, we went to the other beehive location. Fortunately for us, the beehives are doing amazing. The Nucs have a couple of frames of nicely patterned brood. That means the Queen is laying really well. Look how beautiful this frame is.<br />
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Here is a closeup of another frame. This was full of bees, honey, and brood.<br />
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We spotted the Queen on another frame. This Nuc came with a marked Queen which makes it so easy to find her. None of our other hives comes with a marked Queen. Look how amazing she looks!<br />
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After we finished with the inspections, we headed over to the farmer's market which is a few blocks from the beehives. Our beehost told us that they had a farm vendor there that sold free range eggs for only $4 a dozen! $4!!! What an amazing deal! The farmer's market near my apartment sells free range eggs for $6 a dozen, so this is a great bargain! You really can't beat fresh farm eggs from a local farm. Incredible!<br />
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Look at these beauties! Aren't they gorgeous? Now that I know where to find fresh eggs like that, I'll be stopping by here every time I go beekeeping from now on! Score!!! Great find!<br />
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<br />meemsnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10584936035577822444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947997585334958395.post-8689683262116914182014-06-16T01:01:00.001-04:002014-06-16T01:10:20.638-04:00Homemade Ginger AleEver since we've been getting seltzer delivered every month from the <a href="http://nycgardening.blogspot.com/2014/05/bringing-seltzer-back.html" target="_blank">Brooklyn Seltzer Boys</a>, I've been absolutely obsessed with coming up with different kinds of homemade syrups to make sodas with. I looked up a <a href="http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2013/09/fresh-ginger-syrup-recipe/" target="_blank">recipe for Ginger syrup</a> to make homemade ginger ale. I followed <a href="http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2013/09/fresh-ginger-syrup-recipe/" target="_blank">this recipe</a> except instead of 2 cups of sugar, I only used 1 cup of sugar. I don't like sodas too sweet and this was just about right for my taste when I cut the sugar in half. This recipe is really easy, and what I loved about it was that the prep time is really minimal. It's just mainly cutting up some ginger, and you don't even have to peel the ginger! How easy is that?<br />
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Add the cut ginger to a non-reactive pot, then add sugar and water and boil. Once it's boiling, lower to a simmer and cook for 45 minutes to reduce it down to a syrup. Then turn off the heat and let it cool. That's it. Easy peasy!<br />
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I used a funnel to pour the syrup into a bottle, add some seltzer and voila!<br />
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I poured in a half an inch of syrup, then topped it off with cold seltzer! YUM. So refreshingly good! This is a keeper!
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