Bob said > The brood chamber is one box with wall  to wall brood but contains almost no honey or pollen(stored  by the  
bees in the first box above the Q excluder),


I can see lots of advantages to running everything in one deep. My questions are how do you handle the first box above the queen QE during harvest when it has the colony's pollen stores? Then how do you manage the colonies in preparation for winter?   



Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT
Northeast USA 

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