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By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years To be sure that information is…
Read MoreBy: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years To be sure that information is…
Read MoreBy : Kim Flottum I’ve been attending one or the other, and sometimes but rarely both, of the National meetings in January almost every…
Read MoreBy : Kim Flottum Webinars aren’t new. But if you haven’t, take a look at the webinars we do here and let me tell you…
Read More2019 marks the 150th year the A.I. Root Company has been doing business in the beekeeping community. This is, without doubt, certainly something to…
Read MoreBy: Kim Flottum Acutally, It’s All About Honey A while ago I was talking about where food comes from and Mexico is certainly one…
Read MoreSelling Honey. Land Use. Local. By: Kim Flottum I have several interests in life that aren’t directly involved with bees, beekeeping and beekeepers, but most of…
Read MoreSafely Defining Honey. By: Kim Flottum Back in January we reported in the BUZZ that the ERS has sent a Report to the Commissioner…
Read MoreReader Survey. Meeting Messages. By: Kim Flottum We recently conducted a reader survey. You may have been one of those contacted by the people…
Read MoreOld Guys. Honey Report. Invasives. By: Kim Flottum There are few things I enjoy more than attending a beekeeper’s meeting. It’s a place where…
Read MoreI’m jumping ahead this time but we’ll get back to Rule 3 soon. But this time I’m looking at something more timely…. The Seventh…
Read MoreRussian Bees Get It Right A noted honey bee scientist in the U.S. said some time ago he was weary of dealing with Varroa….
Read MoreIsolation is ideal, and mostly impractical any more. But for some it has worked for years. No new bees in the neighborhood can…
Read MorePest Management – Rule 4 Although the staple pests and diseases are still with us, and will rise and shine on occasion, the 5000…
Read Moreby Kim Flottum Finishing up on Rule 2 about having Good Genetics, we get to the basics…resistant of the common problems, efficient producers, and…
Read MoreRule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a…
Read MorePicking up where we left off with Good Queens, the next obvious piece of this is that good queens should be healthy beyond belief….
Read More10 Rules of Modern Beekeeping There are, I’m certain, far more than 10 rules that you can use to guide you through the common…
Read MoreIt’s been a hard autumn this year. A long, but not particularly difficult recovery from back surgery last fall kept me at mostly three…
Read MoreAbout 60 yards or so from my house runs one of the many small creeks Ohio seems to have. I live just north of…
Read MoreIn The Honey Connoisseur, the book that Marina Marchese and I just finished, we examine 34 popular, and in our opinion excellent varietal…
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