A Hudson Valley bee skep

A couple of weekends ago I go on a whirlwind spell of some Hudson Valley ( New York ) garden with a couple of gardening buddy . I ’ll be featuring some of the sights we see this week .

I ’ll start out dull with a cute picayune bee skep we distinguish in the herb garden atBoscobelin Garrison , New York . Every meter I see a bee skep , I want one for my own garden – they’re so cute ! But I ’ve never actually control bees take up residence in a skep . Have you?According to Wikipedia(who we should all trust completely , right ? Ha ! ) , it ’s really illegal to keep bees in skep in many countries , including the US . Apparently , in society to harvest the honey the bees bring forth in a skep , you almost always have to put down the bees . Not very nice . Most of the skeps you see now are strictly for looks . If you want to further bees to a skep for the purpose of harvest home honey , look for a skep that has a 2d vessel on top to make harvesting the honey ( which the bee produce in the upper vessel ) a little less gruesome . * * I have not been able to notice one online , unhappily . Here ’s a bit more information on skep .

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