 Richard Wallenstein invited our group to visit Lavender Bee Farm to see his top bar hive. It has a special window so we can see inside. |
Mr. Wallenstein showed us how the comb starts with just a line of wax on a bar. Then the bees draw out the comb in a natural way. |
Here he is showing how they make the honey comb and brood comb. He was able to harvest lots of honey from his top bar hives. |
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| He told us that he likes top bar hives and the bees work well in them. | You can not spin the honey out of the comb because it is not in a frame like our other hives. He cut the honey comb up into pieces and sold it to a restaurant. | |
One of our new members wanted to inspect the comb up close. |
 These are the Liberty 4-H Beekeepers starting the 2007-2008 4-H year during their visit to Lavender Bee Farm in Petaluma, California. |
 This was the first time two of the project members actually worked with bees.The other three have kept bees for two or more years. |
| We meet the second Tuesday of each month. One of us will make a prepared talk to teach the others something. We will also be helping our newer project members build their hives.If you live in Sonoma County, California, and want to join our project, contact Ettamarie Peterson, our project leader. We can take members of other 4-H clubs. |
