The Best Way to Get Bees For Free

...t bees is to invite them to settle down on their own. Here’s how to do it. Build it and they will come Set up your bee housing (Langstroth hive or top bar hive) and the bees might just move in on their own. It’s happened to me twice now in seven years. You should have your boxes ready to go anyway, since you can never predict the day someone will call with a swarm that needs a home. This readiness applies to tools too. Have all your bee tools in a...

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Saturday Tweets: Knights on Roosters, Edible Spoons and Raccoon Attacks

...new spot https://t.co/djq5dwwnwA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2016 Build a Dutch "kapschuur" Toolshed https://t.co/9v9owachdp — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2016 California farmers experiment with quinoa. Can an Andean crop thrive in the Imperial Valley? LAT: https://t.co/wUddUR9hxC — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) May 12, 2016 10-year old Rachel Lee draws big applause -she got 200 signatures in favor of Westwood bike lanes – wants bike...

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I’ll Need This Someday: Clutter Control for Artists and Creatives

...them on the street and we grabbed them for the garden shed she wants me to build (a project, admittedly, that I’m dragging my heels on). Lest I blame Kelly for my workshop clutter, it should be noted that the doors are next to four columns I grabbed from an old house that was being demolished. The columns and the doors are now part of a category of stuff all creative people know about: “I’ll need this someday.” It seems to me that there are two ba...

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Saturday Tweets: Urine Tanned Leather, Grass Huts and Unpleasant Design

How to build a grass hut https://t.co/iF7VQwb9vr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016 Electrocuting People Was Basically America’s Favorite Pastime in the 1920s https://t.co/Nkrwu0ATMu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016 Urine Tanned Salmon Leather https://t.co/dmYEUxQ7eF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016 Unpleasant Design https://t.co/YjJK3N3oGF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016 Meet Balmuda, the $230 Toaster From Japan ht...

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