Downtown: Funky City Apiaries Can Make Urban Lifestyle Even Cooler!
Get ready: this column is about to contradict itself. Kind of. Our overall message each month (yawn) is meant to be that bees are…
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Heartland Apicultural Society Hosts Its First Michigan Meeting
For the first time in it’s 14-year history, the Heartland Apicultural Society (HAS), will meet in Michigan. The venue will be Albion College and…
Read MoreAPIMONDIA 2019: We Are Inviting the World to Our Beeyard
Apimondia is an exciting, dynamic, diverse meeting of the world beekeeping industry. It is the bi-annual congress of the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations….
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Ed Colby Why don’t you just send all your bees to California for the almonds,” Marilyn wondered. “Then you’d have the Winter off.” Maybe…
Read MoreIt’s Not Hard Being A Mentor
But You Need Guidelines Ann Harman Experienced beekeepers know that each colony has its own ‘personality.’ And it’s ever-changing (remember all those drones that…
Read MoreGeezer Ridge Farm
Biology, mentors, veterans, bees and honey by Jack Blackford When stepping into the cavernous beekeeping workshop of Ed Forney you must be prepared for…
Read MoreBob Koehnen
Bee breeder and inventor – 100 years of apiaries and orchards by M.E.A. McNeil The cars rolled up California 162 and Ord Ferry Road,…
Read MoreAsk Phil: December 2014
Phil Craft Got A Question? He knows! A beekeeper in Ohio writes: I would like to purchase three or more nucs next Spring for…
Read MoreKIRK WEBSTER
Keeping Bees In Vermont Without Treatments Of Any Kind by Ross Conrad A long, non-descript driveway off the main road in New Haven, Vermont…
Read MoreJAN LOHMAN: Interview
Jan Is One Of The Movers And Shakers Of The Oregon State Beekeepers by Dewey Caron Jan Lohman and partner Vince Vazza run over…
Read MoreSHANE GEBAUER: Interview
A New Voice At The Helm Of Brushy Mountain Bee Farm by Jennifer Berry For sometime now, I’ve wanted to interview Shane Gebauer for…
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Pumpkin Time
A Fall tradition not to be taken for granted by Dewey Caron Fall is time to market pumpkins and honey. September is National Honey…
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Ask Phil: November 2014
Phil Craft Got A Question? He knows! Note to Bee Culture readers: An answer in my September column elicited such decided responses, both pro…
Read MoreMoses Quinby
America’s Father Of Practical Beekeeping by David Edwards In 1853, Lorenzo Langstroth of Massachusetts and Moses Quinby of New York published their books on…
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The Things We Do For Research
In the last article I mentioned how difficult research can be at times and that the current project we are working on has been…
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