We decided to merge the weak hive with a stronger one today using the newspaper trick. You place a layer of newspaper between the two hives and cut a few slits here and there. It takes the bees a few days to eat through the paper...giving them time to acclimate to a new frequency of the same hive mentality.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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