Wallace Family Apiary

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Wallace Family Apiary — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:10:23 +0000

I took a break from writing on our beekeeping blog. I was reading the October issue of The American Bee Journal, and came across an article about the Glacier Honey Company. I read the article and enjoyed the beautiful photos of this companies outfit. BTW, I’ve been to Glacier National Park, and it is beautiful. So, I checked out their web site, and ran across their WordPress blog: www.glaciercountyhoney.Wordpress.com . It made me think about my blog, and here I am.

Happy beekeeping! Be sure to visit the Glacier County Honey company, and enjoy this short nuc vdeo.

Santiago & Angela Wallace

Introducing the Wallace-Harper 3 frame and two frame mating Nuc

Wallace Family Apiary — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:45:22 +0000

Hello all and Welcome to this posting from the Wallace Family Apiary. We are in the process of rearing local queens and making up 5 frame nucs. We are pleased to have some new equipment to the Wallace Family Apiary.
Introducing the Wallace-Harper mating nuc. The Wallace-Harper mating nuc comes in two sizes. The three frame mating nucs are made up of three medium frames 6 5/8. The two frame Wallace-Harper mating nuc are mating nucs utilizing two deep size frames 9 5/8. Designed by the Wallace Family Apiary and Harper’s Wood Shop, created/built by Harper’s Wood Shop
Click to view slideshow.

Colony Splits and Divisions, so easy and you don’t even have to buy a mated queen (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Harper’s Wood Shop

Happy Beekeeping!

Update on t he Wallace-Harper mating Nucs 10/12/11: Although the three frame Wallace-Harper mating nucs worked out well, the two frame Wallace-Harper mating nucs did not. The two frame Wallace-Harper frames did not work primarly because the walls where just two thick. The thick walls made for the colonies over-heating during the very hot August Months. Will continue to use the three frame Wallace-Harper Nucs…although I’m going to design a better lid.

Again, Happy Beekeeping!

Episode 1 My visit with a commercial beekeeper

Wallace Family Apiary — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:02:22 +0000

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This is one of my favorite beekeeping videos I’ve made. I hope you listen and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed producing it. As the title suggests, It’s about my visit with a commercial beekeeper and the enormous information I learned from working side-by-side with his crew.

Santiago & Angela

Wallace Family Apiary

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Full circle (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Awesome Video Explores Urban Beekeeping in London (Video) (treehugger.com)
Colony Splits and Divisions, so easy and you don’t even have to buy a mated queen (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Hotline for saving bees in L.A. (boingboing.net)

Colony Splits and Divisions, easy and without a mated queen

Wallace Family Apiary — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:46:59 +0000

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“let no one tell you he can beat nature in rearing queens” – Jay Smith author of, “Better Queens”. It’s been 62 years since Mr. Smith’s book, and he still has it right…let no one tell you otherwise!

Early this month I wanted to increase the number of colonies in our apiary by two. Trying to find mated queens for sale, was impossible. Most of the queen breeders I knew either didn’t have any mated queens for sale, or all of their queens where already sold. I said to myself, “Santiago, honey bee colonies have been rearing their own queens for years, without any help from man. When push comes to shove; given the right conditions, the right resources, and a bit of good weather, they could make excellent queens. I bet the bees can rear queens better than any queen breeder ever could”.

I made two splits from two of my best colonies, back on March 2nd, 2011. I looked into the colonies today, and I saw two of the best looking honey bee queens I have ever seen. What I want to pass on to you, (my readers), is that you too, can make splits/divisions and not buy a mated honey bee queen. Buying mated queens is not a bad thing, don’t get me wrong, but there maybe a time when allowing the bees to raise a queen is ok……after all, they do it all the time. I’m including a video, of myself and two of my daughters discussing how we split a colony without a mated queen. The video we made is from several still photos and three short video clips combined to make a video, and we dubbed over the sound with our discussion. This is an excellent post and especially the video that will leave you with a little bit of beekeeping knowledge in splits/divisions that is invaluable. Enjoy the video and Happy Beekeeping,

Santiago and Angela Wallace

featuring Brittany and Sara Wallace

Wallace Family Apiary

Full circle (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
A little about bees (weneedbees.wordpress.com)
Apis Mellifera, better know as honey bee (platelicking.wordpress.com)
Why Beekeepers May Soon Be Strapping iPhones to Their Beehives | Discoblog (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
“Better Queens” by Jay Smith (apimo.dk)
The Love of Bee Keeping (honeybeesandme.wordpress.com)

Honey bee on the Spiderwort and Blackberry Flowers

Wallace Family Apiary — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:45:02 +0000

Today my two daughters and I went outside to look at the progress of our family garden. We brought our camera along and got some photos of the bees on the Spiderwort and Blackberry flowers. enjoy the photos and Happy Beekeeping!

Wallace Family Apiary

The Nectar flow is on (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Beekeeper’s friendly attitude, mentoring remembered (pennlive.com)
New technique could help solve mystery of vanishing bees (physorg.com)
Happy Ending (beekeepingisfun.wordpress.com)

The Nectar flow is on

Wallace Family Apiary — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:37:15 +0000

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The Honey bees are bringing in the nectar and bringing it in heavy. I checked on the colonies yesterday, ( 3/18/2011), and I had capped honey and lots of nectar in all of the colonies. The Wallace Family Apiary 1st Honey Harvest of 2011 will soon be here. I checked on the wild blackberry in the back yard and they have buds opening all over. In this area the gallberry nectar flow is a combination of blackberry and gallberry….so soon the galberry flow will be in full swing. I’ve seen the bees on the clover so it should be a nice wild-berry Honey harvest. I’ve included a video and you can see the bees are very active, flying in and out like “gangbusters”. Enjoy the fun video and Happy Beekeeping!

Santiago and Angela Wallace

Wallace Family Apiary

Full circle

Wallace Family Apiary — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:41:53 +0000

Well, here I am 4 years of beekeeping under my belt. I’ve done numerous splits/divisions, reared queens, completed several bee removals, caught a few swarms, and even pollinated commercial and private groves and crops. The reason I got into beekeeping was because, my garden did not do as well as I had hoped. Specific fruits, (cantaloupe, pumpkins, and cucumbers), didn’t bear fruit. In my investigation and research I learned it was because of lack of feral pollinators, specifically honey bees. I immersed myself into honey bees and beekeeping, and ditched the gardening. Four years later, we have another garden, it’s actually my wife’s garden. This past Sunday we, (four of my daughters, my wife and myself) ,planted tons of fruits and vegetables ….this time we have several colonies, no more than 30 yards from where the honey bees are. So, I guess you could say…I’ve come full circle, and now we will see if they will bear fruit. Wish us luck, and be prepared for tons of photos as the garden progresses.
Happy Beekeeping and look for my future posts of how our garden is doing.

I wanted to mention our beekeeping blog has passed the 6,000 visitor mark. That number is from the United states and 92 other countries. check this out: http://s05.flagcounter.com/countries/CNy

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Green Advantages of Beekeeping (brighthub.com)
A Must See Introduction to Beekeeping and Honey Bees (Video) (treehugger.com)
Honey Bees – Why Should We Care? (global-endeavors.com)
Essex County honeybees threatened by beetle (windsorstar.com)
Looking back out our first Garden (Wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)

Happy Birthday Brittany

Wallace Family Apiary — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:55:30 +0000

Brittany and her nuc

Brittany Happy 18th Birthday!!! I can’t believe my little girl just turned 18! I hope your birthday is wonderful!
Love DaD

Happy Birthday

Wallace Family Apiary — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:01:04 +0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you have a BEEutiful Birthday….I have to keep the blog some what bee related. I Love you Honey!!!! Stay Sweet!!!!

Visit our business web site

Wallace Family Apiary — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:26:28 +0000

Wallace Family Apiary

Santiago, Sara, Brittany, Angela, Isla, and Avery

Our oldest daughter Clarice

Zachary

Come and browse our business page: Wallace Family Apiary. In April we should have our first honey harvest. Our Online store section will have the different containers and their prices. Happy Beekeeping

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Feeding & making pollen substitute patties (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Beekeepers Should Be Stars In Los Angeles, Not Outlaws (food.change.org)

2011 Hey North Florida: Call us for bee removals- swarms or established colonies

Wallace Family Apiary — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:12:44 +0000

Wallace Family Apiary can handle all of your honey bee removal needs. Have an unwanted Honey bee swarm or a honey bee colony on your property? Don’t call an exterminator, call us, we want to protect honey bees and give them a home. Honey bees are responsible for 1/3 of the food you and I eat. Call Wallace Family Apiary @ 386-307-0881, we service a portion of N. Florida. Below is a map showing the area that we service.

: Wallace Family Apiary

Please be sure to call us @ 386-307-0881 , if you love Honey like we do, then you’ll love our prices too. We sell 100% Raw American Honey, filtered and bottled fresh, straight from the hive.

I’m talking about The “Bee Friendly FarmingTM” Initiative (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Beekeeper in Starke, Florida will remove unwanted honey bee swarms, and established honey bee Colonies
Wallace Family Apiary Feeding Station- OPEN FEEDING (wallacefamilyapiary.wordpress.com)
Starke, Florida
Bradford County Florida
Alachua County Florida
Middleburg, Florida
Lake Butler, Florida
Green Advantages of Beekeeping (brighthub.com)
Tell the EPA: Ban the pesticide that’s killing bees (ynative77.wordpress.com)
EPA Turns a Blind Eye as Pesticide Poisons Honey Bees (food.change.org)
Bee swarm sets downtown abuzz (cbc.ca)

Communicating with a fellow Beekeeper…long tradition and a valuable learning medium.

Wallace Family Apiary — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:55:46 +0000

Early on in our beekeeping history, Beekeepers often corresponded by mail. It was a good way to disseminate sound beekeeping information, and a way for beekeepers to sort of ”bounce” beekeeping management practices and compare notes. It’s nice to see that this continues in our modern world.

I found a fellow beekeeper, Chris of Chris Slade’s Bee Blog who has recently started blogging about bees. I also believe he is co-authoring a book. I wanted to share his blog with my readers, and to share some dialague he and I have been having. It’s not much yet, but who knows where we might both grow from here. Here is the link: http://chrissladesbeeblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/ungrateful-creatures/#comment-16 .

Thank you Chris for communicating with me and I hope we continue to communicate. I believe you have been beekeeping longer than I have, so I’m sure I have lots I can learn from you. Hopefully I have information of value for you as well. One thing that does come to mind is the Bee Friendly FarmingTM initiative by the folks at Partners for Sustainable Pollination. Are you familiar with the initiative, (http://www.pfspbees.org/bff.htm)? We are a certified Bee Friendly FarmingTM apiary, and I always take advantage of an opportunity to share about what they are doing. Check them out, and let me know what you think.

Happy Beekeeping and I hope everyone’s is having a wonderful New Year!

Santiago

2011 is going to BEE awesome!!

Wallace Family Apiary — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:33:05 +0000

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**We at Wallace Family Apiary, hope**

everyone has a

Happy New Year!

BEE safe and BEE good!

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Christmas

Wallace Family Apiary — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:51:10 +0000

Merry Christmas to everyone from the Wallace Family Apiary

More on Bee Friendly FarmingTM

Wallace Family Apiary — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:35:29 +0000

We have passed the 5,000 mark…..Yea!!!

Wanted to take this opportunity to promote the Bee Friendly FarmingTM initiative. Here are some informational “Rackcards” Just click on the link and read!
Rackcard

Wallace Family Apiary

We are back

Introducing the Wallace-Harper 3 frame and two frame mating Nuc

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BEE safe and BEE good!

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