
It’s Summers Time – January, Travel and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
Read MoreBy : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
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 : Kathy Summers It’s funny – last month I wrote about a difficult trip home from the airport and just last night we…
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 MoreDr. Jonathan Lundgren is a former USDA-ARS soil scientist, having received his PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004. Today he…
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 MoreTime Flies. The years sure seem to go faster, the older I get. And every year we never get it all done. But we…
Read MoreBy: Cassie Martin SAY CHEESE this lump of 3,200-year-old cheese found in an ancient Egyptian tomb shows signs of having been contaminated with bacteria…
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 MoreBy: Stephen Bishop For those who have Netflix, I recommend for consumption: Detectorists. This show has nothing to do with beekeeping other than the fact…
Read MoreJustina Huddleston We’ve been seeing Manuka honey pop up all over Instagram and recipe sites lately, but we wanted to figure out what exactly…
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 MoreFarmers are growing more and more anxious with the negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement. Several Wisconsin farmers’ organizations have joined a…
Read MoreLeah McBey WHAT’S IN A NAME: Burnie’s Skoop Wholefoods owner Kirsten Goninon and co-worker Darralin Housegoh hold a jar of high-value local manuka honey….
Read MoreGil Gullickson This is the story Seven Arkansas farms are suing makers of dicamba herbicides used in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System for…
Read MoreEd Davidian, President, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation has a long history of backing and lobbying for bills that…
Read MoreThe 21st century arrived at Spieth Road, again, in mid-April this year with the arrival of 7, 3 pound packages of honey bees in…
Read MoreKim Flottum We unearthed the bees a couple of weekends ago. Well, unwrapped them actually. I learned winter in northern Wisconsin and it stuck….
Read MoreAlan Harman Photo UMF Honey About a third of honey marketed in the United Kingdom as manuka product from New Zealand does not…
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