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🐝 Cottage Apiary: Hive Heat Budget, Open-Frame Inspection and Forage

Keep an English garden hive alive: balance the colony's heat budget against wind, sun, insulation and inspections, lift a real comb frame, and watch forage fill the honey stores.

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⚙ Under the hood

Keep a garden beehive alive: balance the colony's heat budget against wind, sun, insulation and inspections, lift a comb frame to see brood, pollen and honey, and compare the wind that overloads the bees' heater with a closed-form prediction.

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