Is there a market here in the area for..

[flo]

Sweet memories of the days my Grandfather harvested honey.  Fresh honey with honeycomb on warm toast or biscuits or just plain bread and butter.  I always preferred the honey with a big chunk of comb in the jar.  Grandma Edwards always had a ball of beeswax in her sewing basket.  I have one in mine right now and use it when I repair Lucy's toys she chews a hole in.  Grandma used her's when she was sewing a sole back on or repairing a torn seam in our shoes.

[patyrn]

I'm kind of dense and clueless, Flo, but how do you use beeswax for sewing and repairs?  How does it help your job?

[flo]

you run your thread or string thru the beeswax ball and it strengthens it

[patyrn]

Thanks--I had no idea................................

[srkruzich]

Beeswax is used in the stitching thread that you use for leather tack as well as the fishing line on a flyrod.
Helps make the line float on top of the water

[pam]

 I use waxed thread to make my dreamcatchers, the wax grabs ahold and makes my knots tighter and stronger. For the leather bags I make too.

[Ms Bear]

Have you read the Jan. 29, 09 issue of the Prairie Star.  It might answer some of your questions about the bee venture.

Ms Bear

[srkruzich]

Have you read the Jan. 29, 09 issue of the Prairie Star.  It might answer some of your questions about the bee venture.

Ms Bear

I just saw it.   I have already ordered my bees for spring.  Here's hoping for a good year.

[W. Gray]

Hope you have a smoker coming also.

[srkruzich]

Hope you have a smoker coming also.

LOL yeah but i rarely use a smoker unless their upset over something.    But i keep one handy in case.
Most of the time using a smoker aggrevates the hive and pushes the bees back.