{"id":2694,"date":"2024-01-08T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T19:17:44","slug":"diy-winter-nutrition-bricks-for-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"DIY Winter Nutrition Bricks for the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For colonies that are more active, and may eat through their natural stores &#8211; I make winter nutrition bricks.\u00a0\u00a0 They initially have a consistency of damp sand, and are dehydrated into bricks that I place on top of the frames of the bee hives.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my particular recipe.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone who makes their own &#8211; has their own favorite ingredients to add.\u00a0 I tend to keep my recipe simple.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 Lbs Sugar<\/li>\n<li>4 Cups Pollen Substitute<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup Sea Salt<\/li>\n<li>4-1\/2 Cups Water<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix (I use a cement mixer), place into brownie\/cake pans, tamp it down, dehydrate for a few days&#8230;. Then place on the hives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-NQoSFE5u1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/-NQoSFE5u1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!\u00a0\u00a0 If you make your own &#8211; put a comment into the comments area of teh video to let me know what you put into YOUR winter nutrition for your bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For colonies that are more active, and may eat through their natural stores &#8211; I make winter nutrition bricks. They initially have a consistency of damp sand, and are dehydrated into bricks that I place on top of the frames of the bee hives.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my particular recipe. Everyone who makes their own &#8211; has [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,97,98,83,99,903,103],"tags":[927,928,929,200,70,925,926,442],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-yard","category-bee-yard-projects","category-beekeeping","category-bohemian-life","category-bohemian-utopia","category-projects","category-recipes","tag-bricks","tag-dehydrater","tag-dehydrator","tag-diy","tag-honeybees-2","tag-nutrition","tag-sugar","tag-winter","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-Hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}