Welcome, here I post idea, educational content, and general bee-keeping thoughts and opinion. If this is your first time here, please ready the first post, and origin story for the name, The Third Opinion.
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Cottage Food Regulations
Resent cottage regulation (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.16) from the New Jersey Board of Health which legalized the sale of baked goods, and other kitchen requiring foods, by individuals to individual. It was previously illegal to bake outside of a commercial kitchen for sale. Now the person dreaming of starting a cup cake side hustle can do so.… Read more
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Spring Management
Last week of March and first week of April we are doing 4 things to all the hives. Equalizing, Sampling for Varroa mites, putting on honey supers, and taking note how the best paraformers are. Equalizing To equalize hives in an apiary is really just the act of move frames of brood and bees form… Read more
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What You Need
Like all things in keeping honey bees when you ask 2 beekeepers what you will need in your first year you will get 3 answers. This blog post will lay what we at HarBee use in our hives and also try to give time to equipment and different sized equipment that we don’t use but… Read more
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Are they Bees?
The the spring there are a TON of different things happening. When temperatures increase insects and other animals were ether emerging from there winter dormancy or migrating up from the south. In this post I want to review some of the different insects that are called “bees” while also defining some of the terms that… Read more
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Free Online Class Syllabus
This blog post will function as a living Syllabus. Updates on major changes (like dates and time changes) will be emailed to anyone that is on the email list or gets they new letter. Links to the recorded lectures will be added here without an email update. That said the latest update was: Last updated:… Read more