{"id":2505,"date":"2009-04-21T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/hiving-the-bees\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","slug":"hiving-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/hiving-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiving the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon, the bees arrived at the farm, a day late after being stuck in a snowstorm in the Rockies. Below is an attempt to show you just how they were hived.<\/p>\n

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They are shipped in boxes containing the bees (10,000 per box), one queen in a separate cage, and a can of food (sugar water).<\/div>\n
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Getting set up.<\/p>\n

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Opening the boxes.<\/div>\n
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The queen bee.<\/p>\n

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Placing the queen in the hive. On Wednesday Keith will remove her from her cage. <\/div>\n
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Dumping the bees into the hive.<\/div>\n
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Tumbling bees.<\/div>\n
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Unfortunately we only caught the tail end of the dump on video.<\/div>\n
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Bees in the hive.<\/div>\n
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Closing up the hives.<\/div>\n
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Our intern Lori Watley helping out. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon, the bees arrived at the farm, a day late after being stuck in a snowstorm in the Rockies. Below is an attempt to show you just how they were hived. They are shipped in boxes containing the bees (10,000 per box), one queen in a separate cage, and a can of food (sugar … Continue reading Hiving the Bees<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69696,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/69696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}