From the Beekeeping Meeting
Well there was another beekeeping meeting this week and as usual a lot of great points came up. Here’s some things to consider: No matter where you’ve started in the country by now you should have two brood boxes on your hive or three westerns (many people use all...
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Doing a Beekeeping Hive Inspection
In case you’re unfamiliar we have a wonderful forum at World of Beekeeping for your questions. You can simply click here to access the forums, register and post your questions. Folks will chime in with their experiences and help you with your questions. Not only is it a great...
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Keeping Bees in a Log
This is a guest post by Jamie Dehner A few months before I acquired nuc colonies for the first time and started beekeeping “officially” I was shown an interesting thing by a friend. This friend is an arborist and a client had once called him about a beehive in...
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Travel and Beekeeping? Yes! Volunteer!
Want to spread your love for beekeeping while helping others and exploring the world? Then this information should be of interest to you. Recently Winrock International reached out to us asking to pass along information about their volunteer beekeeping programs. While we’ve not had a chance to participate in...
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Great Old Beekeeping Video
The wonderful thing about the Internet is that it’s constantly turning up new and interesting information and often old and historic information too! In this case we’ve found a wonderful old video about beekeeping called Bee City, circa 1951. It’s a relatively short film about the life of the...
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Building Your Beekeeping Equipment
We recently received a question from a follower on how to put foundation into frames. Depending on the frames the procedure can be drastically different. If you purchased a kit from us (when we still sold them) then you’ll have one of the easiest times ever putting foundation into...
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Making Your Own Bee Boxes: What is Bee Space?
We’ve often had questions about making your own bee equipment and why you can’t just put bees into anything. The truth is you can put bees into anything, assuming you don’t want to harvest honey! In the wild bees will indeed make their homes in many different spaces and...
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Ants in the Beehive
Not too long ago we received a question from a follower about ants. Big or small ants are usually dealt with by a strong hive, but in the spring or when a hive is weak your bees might not be able to fight off the little pests. So what...
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Help Us Get A Grant!
Hey all, We recently applied for a grant to help us create new and exciting educational materials for you! As you can imagine making videos, editing, packaging and sending can take quite a bit of time and money and we’d love to have the ability to really ramp up...
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