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Iowa Honey Producers Association |
The Buzz Newsletter June 2004 |
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Back-to-Basics Beekeepers The Back to Basics Beekeepers welcome spring every
April with a Smoker Lighting Contest. We compare favorite fuels
for ignition ease, scent, sustainability and cost. Most fuels
were scavenged; pine needles, dryer lint, rotted elm tree, twine,
etc. The only purchased fuel was pellets, and they proved superior
in sustaining smoke.
Eves Cadwallader demonstrated how to install nucs into hive bodies; the club had 70 nucs humming away in the back of pickups as we planned our strategies.
Plastic frame boxes for cut comb honey. Eves Cadwallader and Dean Kanselaar inspect the cutting edge technology of cut comb honey; plastic frame boxes. The club will probably try some of them. What is beekeeping, after all, if not a big experiment?
To see the latest on what the Back-to-Basics Beekeepers Club is up to, check out their website at http://showcase.netins.net/web/backtobasics/ Share the Wealth of Knowledge Let us know what interesting and exciting beekeeping endeavors you have been involved with, send in an article, picture, or latest bee news to
It is a busy time of the year for the bee world, share the adventure with your fellow beekeepers in The Buzz Newsletter! Alex W. Ebert
Please note that Gordon Powell, the IHPA Treasurer,
will be on vacation from June 12th to June 27th. If you need to
email him during this time, it may be a little longer before he
can reply. You can also check the IHPA Contacts list online at
the IHPA website ABuzzAboutBees.com if another officer or director
could answer your questions.
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