November 9 , 2017
Bee-Hind the Scenes With Beekeepers & How We Help
I lucked into a first - time - ever moment in my garden ! A fiery captain clasped so firmly onto a purple aster that it had n’t a thought for me as I crept up . I eff perennial asters ( Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ) for their procurator foliage and durability in drouth or rain bombs . Come October , their lilac blossom explode to a chorus line of eager bee , butterflies , and other pollinators . Beekeeping is the latest locavore pursuit for distinctive dearest that rivals craft beer . This calendar week , we meet a few beekeeper and tell their stories , including animated educator , storyteller , player and authorKim Lehman . away from her historic CTG present moment playing the ukulele , Kim execute some of the wizardly tricks and quick science projects to wow the whole sept from her bookBeekeeper ’s science lab : 52 Family - Friendly Activities and Experiments search the Life of the HivefromQuarto Homes . As a beekeeper herself , Kim wroteBeekeeper ’s Labto assist families get started . Even if you ’re not quick to set up a hive , she has spate of DIY projects to play around with skill , illustrate pollination , plants for bee , and homemade feeder when bloom are thin . Kim had us all so awestruck that it ’s awing our camera operators stayed unfluctuating . Our experiment with her UV flashlight ( must get ! ) did n’t work out great in the studio apartment , but she explains how bee see colors quite other than than we do . And essay her no - bake recipe for loyal , easy , energy treats made with honey , oatmeal , earthnut butter and whatever else you want to literally confound in . Check out herwebsitefor information on her super duper fun , educational shop and programs for kids from 2 - 12.And watch now !
Even though Texas celebrated Arbor Day last weekend , there ’s plenty of time to plant trees ! November is prime time to launch roots this winter . What about adding native possumhaw holly ( Ilex decidua)?Its flowers pull pollinators , like bees , and you ’ll be rewarded all wintertime with bird guide for those glorious berries on its beautifully architectural soma . Daphne explains how to grow this shrubby Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Holly berries are poisonous to us , but there are many plants you could work inside to enjoy , like all those herbs!Trisha gets your craftsy on with homemade herbal swags for soothing Bath and tea , tasty recipes and to get a armorial bearing out of your favorite feline champion . As craft - challenge as I am , even I can handle this!Shape up that overgrown bay laurel and invest yourself or a cooking buddy with “ zest on a pillage ” for those winter stew and soups!Watch now!On tour , we combed a few apiculturist for the sweet fib bee - hind their captivation . kinfolk beekeepers Christine Giordano and Ryan Thomas started with Gallus gallus long before they hatched gregarious daughter Henrietta . As much as they make out to locomote in their Vanagon camper , they love to homestead , too . They lucked into elongated belongings edge theirs that backs up to a greenbelt . So , they dub their home plate @campfarm where crybaby let out for a run head word flat to their bivouac flack for a rubble bathing tub . originative recyclers , they inserted string lights into coffee berry cans to illuminate up evening around the blast . Ever adventurous about sustainability , Christine take beekeeping division . Then , she and Ryan loaded their railway car with 10,000 bees — in bee letter carrier , of course!They were hooked when they harvested their first - ever beloved from Langstroth hives . Ryan say the beeswax work majuscule on bikes as a thread lock . Christine even contributed video of their crush and strain harvest and how a fellow beekeeper wrangle their bees when the hive split and stream , a bonus for beekeepers .
At theSustainable Food Center , Tara Chapman fromTwo hive Honeyis one of two apiculturist who wield the apiary . After working with the Union government in warfare zones , she discovered beekeeping on a trip back to Austin . She fell in lovemaking with bee , depart her job , and started Two Hives Honey ( now with a newfangled brick and trench mortar shop).SFC ’s apiary offer their mission to crop a sizable community by increasing accession to topically grown , unused food . They impart the apiary to aid pollination of crops ( that worked ! ) and to educate the world about bees and pollenation . Liz Cardinal , SFC ’s Grow Local Teaching Garden Coordinator , design and help ramp up the honeycombed - shaped apiary with a UT School of Architecture class under the counselling of Steve Ross . They started with packages of bees , along with two drove pull in from interested homeowners , to put up in two Langstroth hives and two top cake beehive . Tanya Phillips and Chuck Reburn atBee Friendly Austintook a few bee classes and decide they ’d found their 2d careers . We were awed when a hive rent and thousands of bee swarmed safely around us . presently after this picture , Tanya and Chuck coaxed them into their new starter beehive . Anyway , they started teaching classes . When students want some of their bee , they set about raising healthy colony to sell . Here , female worker bees are “ bonding ” with a unexampled queen in an introduction John Cage . New urticaria start in EZ Nuc boxes , orient and painted differently so that when a virgin queen regnant flies out to mate , she hump her “ destination ” where she ’ll put as many as 3000 eggs a day to replace the 1000 worker that die while out foraging . Tanya and Chuck use top legal profession hives . They harvest the wax for natural lip balm . check out out Tanya ’s record , Beginning apiculture , for footprint - by - tone instructions . heyday for bees are key , since starvation have in mind the end of a hive . And the further worker bees must fly reduces their life dyad . Christine and Ryan had the their beehive pollen examine , and were surprised to find that their bee are collect pollen from crape myrtle , sumac , magnolia , and great deal . Since they do n’t grow any of those plants , they ’re thrilled that even their few nettle rash are impacting pollenation . And the plants their neighbor grow support their bees .
Water is also substantive , but Tanya reminds us that bee ca n’t swim . Provide shallow piddle dish that bees can climb down . She even repurposed ceiling light bowl to snazzy up the drinking manger . In a pond , provide magniloquent plants that allow safe perches .
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Thanks for stopping by ! See you next hebdomad , Linda
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