We finally got around to putting the new bee boxes together this afternoon.

I'm really glad we went the extra mile when we bought the standard hive tool pictured here. I guess we could get by without it, but after using it for scraping the excess wood from the new frames and comparing that process with a knife, I'm convinced this tool was worth the money.

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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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