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Great article! We're on our 3rd season beekeeping; we just collected honey, last night. In fact, I got my first ever bee/wasp/hornet sting ever, last night, from one of our bees. I was being sloppy, wearing running shoes under my bee suit, instead of boots. It hardly hurt at all, though. (I've had worse mosquito bites; so far, horseflies are the worst bites/stings I've ever had). We captured our first swarm, this year, and got another hive "for free." Woo hoo! As far as ordering stuff, since somebody mentioned it, we just go to http://www.beekeepers.com/ to get our gear, since our local farm stores don't carry much. I am interested in these projects, so I can get my bee geek on, but I don't know if I should commit the time and money to them (any success stories out there)?
http://www.opensourcebeehives.net/
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Beekeeping
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