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Date: | Mon, 17 May 1999 07:57:16 -0700 |
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>Does anyone know where I might find an old fashioned cone shaped hive to
>put in a herb garden? Want the hive to be decorative as well as
>functional.
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>Karen DeHond ( a brand new bee keeper in New York State) have 10
>conventional hives I'm taking over for an organic farm, am sure you'll be
>hearing from me again).
Bee skeps are pretty, but I wouldn't recommend keeping bees in them. In
order to harvest the honey from a skep hive, you need to destroy the entire
hive, killing all the bees inside it. You'll get more and better honey
from a conventional, if boxy, Langstroth hive. Get a bee skep and put it
in your garden to look at, but don't let the bees set up housekeeping in it!
Amy Thomson
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