What Are Your Experience With Mountian Camp?

[jimineycricket]

Check out the no cook sugar brick. https://www.honeybeesuite.com/no-cook-candy-board-recipe-for-feeding-winter-bees/

[FatherMichael]

Check out the no cook sugar brick. https://www.honeybeesuite.com/no-cook-candy-board-recipe-for-feeding-winter-bees/

That sounds simple enough.

HMF, huh?

[Ben Framed]

Let me add. I was taught to use newspaper for placing the loose sugar. I did not have any and simply used copy paper. Even though it is thicker it did not seem to slow them down. It may have even helped support the sugar where I made the slits?

[jimineycricket]

That sounds simple enough

I take 3 cups sugar and about 3 T. water.  Mix in a bowl by hand and press it into a disposable pie pan.  I score it in the middle and let it dry at least overnight.  Then I put it into a plastic bucket with lid to keep it dry.  I  just make these little "bricks" as I need them.  Carry this out to the bee yard with me.  If there is any left in the spring, I can make sugar syrup with it.

[cao]

I used to make bricks like those.  I used about 4 lbs of sugar and 7-8 oz water.  They work great until you reach 20 or more hives.  Then the bucket can't hold all the bricks you need.

[BAHBEEs]

Unless we have a truly awful year form now on I am done feeding.  This is the second year I have had hives that I would call hugely honey bound...and I didn't feed this fall.  This decision will be very location and yearly climate dependent...but they do not always need feeding...at all.

[Ben Framed]

Just an update the Mountaincamp method worked great, both hives made it!


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That's awesome well done, enjoy your bees.

I am now a total believer as well! At least for my area and zone. Thanks all.