Keeping honeybees is turning into a popular cottage industry. And what’s the beekeepers best friend?
Here’s a hint: it’s also the pig and chicken keeper’s best friend, it’s plastic, and it’s 5 gallons in size.
Beekeeping Equipment
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Float Valve
Looking to get float valves shipped to your door? Jump to the bottom of the article for our recommendations.
Have you seen “the most useless machine in the world?”
When you turn it on, a little arm pops out to turn itself off again. It’s the funniest feat of human engineering so far.
But not all devices that exist to switch themselves off are “useless.” A float valve is one great example.
Long Term Food Storage
Fact: To eat for a full year, you need 24 standard 5 gallon buckets of food.
That number is based on Costco’s $1,500 year of food in buckets. Their price works out to about 4 dollars a day. To invoke a very tired cliche, that’s one latte a day!
Farming with 5 Gallon Buckets
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Beehive
This is a new experimental 5 gallon bucket beehive designed to provide safe housing for a colony of bees.
