{"id":3514,"date":"2026-01-25T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:38:52","slug":"january-2026-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"January 2026 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 2026 – Newsletter<\/strong>
\n(Laura Winters \u2013 Birds and the Bees Apiary)<\/p>\n

Over\"\"<\/a> the past month and a half, my business partner Rex and I have been busy preparing for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We\u2019ve assembled new hive equipment, including medium supers and deep boxes, then applied a coat of primer and paint to protect and preserve them.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve also ordered new frames and have been waxing the foundations by melting honeybee wax in a turkey roaster pan and rolling it onto each foundation with a sponge roller. This process helps the honeybees begin building on fresh frames right away.<\/p>\n

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In addition, we\u2019ve started vegetable seeds indoors and started certain tree varieties by cuttings and seed – both to support our honeybees and for personal use.\u00a0 Shown in the picture are Mexican Buckeye saplings grown from seed.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>While making rounds to different property yards we\u2019ve been checking on our colonies. We\u2019ve continued using the mountain camp method, which involves placing a sheet of newspaper over the frames and adding about two pounds of sugar on top. This provides an emergency food source in case the bees begin using their fall honey stores. In some cases we\u2019re noticing colonies are consuming all of the sugar within about a two week period. We will continue providing the honeybees with mountain camp method until we start noticing more flowers in bloom to provide a natural food source for them.<\/p>\n

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Sign up for our “Introduction to Beekeeping<\/a>” classes.\u00a0 \u00a0These are a 3-1\/2 hour class – with classroom time where we cover the bees, gear, protective equipment, and more – then we spend time inspecting the hives.\u00a0 \u00a0Click here for more info.<\/a><\/p>\n

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January 2026 – Newsletter (Laura Winters \u2013 Birds and the Bees Apiary)<\/p>\n

Over the past month and a half, my business partner Rex and I have been busy preparing for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve assembled new hive equipment, including medium supers and deep boxes, then applied a coat of primer and paint to protect and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":3503,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[847,96,97,98,1039,83,99,1029,101,13,15,47,58,877,11,1037,1],"tags":[1075,1074,1077,1076,942,1078],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag-valuation","category-bee-yard","category-bee-yard-projects","category-beekeeping","category-birds-and-the-bees","category-bohemian-life","category-bohemian-utopia","category-community","category-garden","category-gardening","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","category-homesteading","category-nature","category-newsletter","category-permaculture","category-plants-and-gardens","category-uncategorized","tag-feeding-bees","tag-january-2026","tag-mexican-buckeye","tag-mountain-camp","tag-newsletter","tag-spring-garden-seeds","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250703_111759-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-UG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}