GrandmaB's Notes

Beginning backyard beekeeping in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, USA, using top bar hives. This is a blog of my experience starting up a top bar hive in my backyard in Independence, Oregon. Hopefully it will help others who are just beginning beekeeping in our local area with some of their basic questions about backyard beekeeping with top bar hives. Why GrandmaB...not related to bees as you might think; I've been GrandmaB since 1999 when the first of our wonderful grandchildren arrived.

Friday, July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 Honey Super Added

July 19, 2019 Big day of adding a honey super with the queen excluder for anticipated honey production that I will remove during the fall after bees have finished foraging for the year and have settled in for the winter. The bees were covering all frames in the second box and were not at all bothered by my uncovering the hive. I did not remove any frames to minimize the disturbance today.