Nuc Update
by Peggy Garnes Sunday was a beautiful day for beekeeping in December! 64 degrees registered on the thermometer. I went out to the bee…
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Ten Rules- Rule 2 part 1!
Rule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a…
Read MoreFive Friends Any City Beekeeper Wants to Have
by Toni Burnham City beekeepers often worry about the resources surrounding our bees. Well, here is another reason to take heart! We live in a…
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10 Rules Part 2
Picking up where we left off with Good Queens, the next obvious piece of this is that good queens should be healthy beyond belief….
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Ten Rules of Modern Beekeeping… Part 1
10 Rules of Modern Beekeeping There are, I’m certain, far more than 10 rules that you can use to guide you through the common…
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Honey Tasting in Waterford Ireland!
We are in Waterford Ireland doing a honey tasting and introducing Root candles!
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Closing down
It’s been a hard autumn this year. A long, but not particularly difficult recovery from back surgery last fall kept me at mostly three…
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October is for dry pollen feeding, too!
As the days grow cooler, the flowers are slowly disappearing from the landscape along with the pollen sources. Feeding a dry pollen at this…
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Bee Box Hives Doing Great!
This year I have a new type of bee hive…Bee Box! It is a high density polystyrene unit. Modern Beekeeping USA was my supplier. …
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Top Bar Hive Split in a Square Box…
by Peggy Garnes A member of the Medina County Beekeepers had a booming top bar hive that needed to be split before winter and called…
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Spreading the Good News, and the Honey
About 60 yards or so from my house runs one of the many small creeks Ohio seems to have. I live just north of…
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What Do You Think Of A Grass Tax?
In The Honey Connoisseur, the book that Marina Marchese and I just finished, we examine 34 popular, and in our opinion excellent varietal honeys,…
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Keeping Bees Alive is an Ongoing Education
I got to go to the HAS (Heartland Apicultural Society) meeting this past weekend in TN. Like all meetings headed up strictly by volunteers…
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Pesticide Causes Massive Bumble Bee Massacre
by Dewey M. Caron In a suburban shopping mall in Wilsonville, OR, south of Portland, a massive loss of bumble bees has been attributed to…
Read MoreReporting Colonies Injured or Killed by Agricultural Pesticides
Beekeepers and others involved with dealing with colonies injured or killed by agricultural pesticides are encouraged to notify the proper authorities so that the…
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Beekeeping Merit Badge
Some time ago the Boy Scouts Of American did away with the Beekeeping Merit Badge due to a variety of reasons. Although there was…
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Case Western Reserve University Farm and Root Candles dedicate The A. I. Root Observational Apiary
Saturday, May 11, the good folks at Case Western University’s Squire Valeeview Farm, including Chris Bond, Horticulturist, Anna Locci, Farm Manager, and the wonderful…
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Postal Costs for Bees and Chickens to go up, maybe.
Last time we looked at getting packages, and I was going to take a long look at getting them started, but not unlike lots…
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Packages
It’s no secret. A million, maybe more colonies that were alive last Thanksgiving aren’t alive today, the beginning of May. What happened? Lots of…
Read MoreHolding Yards
The Holding Yard Dilemma It’s no secret that holding yards are what make almond pollination possible. Holding yards? Unless a beekeeper is very, very…
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