{"id":71,"date":"2013-09-14T03:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:34:45","slug":"beekeeping-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping \u2013 Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dead of winter proves time and again to be hard for me as I like to spend time outdoors, but don\u2019t like to be too cold. I roam back and forth in the house (like a lion Melissa says) awaiting the arrival of spring. This last winter, I decided to research beekeeping a little more in depth as I kind of liked the idea and needed something to do over winter. As it turns out, bees are pretty fascinating.<\/p>\n

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When I decided to start keeping bees for myself (cautiously), the first step was to get hives but to be honest, I really couldn\u2019t see paying those retail prices (the shipping alone was absurd) so I decided to crack the code and build my own. After a great deal of searching and deciphering, I finally came up with the plans to build what I thought would be some nice hives.<\/p>\n

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When I finished building mine, I listed them on CL just as an experiment to see if anyone else thought they were as nice as what I thought they were\u2026 they did. Here are some pics of the first set.<\/p>\n

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First Set<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Bottom<\/a><\/dt>\n
Bottom Board<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Integrated<\/a><\/dt>\n
Integrated Pest Management<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Deep<\/a><\/dt>\n
Deep Box<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Honey<\/a><\/dt>\n
Honey Super (Medium)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Rabbit<\/a><\/dt>\n
Rabbit Joints<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Inner Cover<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Outer Cover<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dead of winter proves time and again to be hard for me as I like to spend time outdoors, but don\u2019t like to be too cold. I roam back and forth in the house (like a lion Melissa says) awaiting the arrival of spring. This last winter, I decided to research beekeeping a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,61,11,15,16,31],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-beehive","tag-beekeeping","tag-hive","tag-honey","tag-honey-bees","tag-orders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}