Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Washboarding Behavior Beekeeping Wisdom From Senior Citizen Beekeepers. For The Brand New Beekeepers – Finding, establishing and maintaining a beeyard. Odds…
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Selecting the Appropriate Protective Clothing
By: James E. Tew This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Go to task with proper…
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Living with a Smoker
By: James E. Tew This article originally appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years What else can we do?…
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Beeyard Thoughts
A comfortable apiary for both bees and beekeepers. Bait hives in the apiary. Odds and Ends – What’s with bees and coffee? A hive stand…
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by James E. Tew Thievery – of any kind anywhere Robbery is truly hard to consider in just a short discussion – or even…
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Bee Hive Stands: This may be the Golden Age of Hive Stands
by James E. Tew What a pleasant surprise Last month, I wrote that, “I would like to come up with a design for individual…
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Temporarily Relocating Beehives
Rarely a quick and easy beekeeping process for the small time beekeeper by James E. Tew Moving beehives – always eventful I don’t know…
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A Short Story About A Wintering Colony With Dysentery
When to treat and when to simple accept the disease? I’m only fooling with you I am afraid that all too often I write…
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Restocking Winterkilled Hives
A routine aspect of beekeeping By: James E. Tew It is a beehive fact of life Occasional dead bee colonies – at any time…
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It’s Wintertime in the Apiary – Again
Increasingly, I am finding that I need each passing year to be longer then the previous one. By: James Tew The correlation between bee…
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Well… Why Does a Colony Need Water During Cool Weather?
Hang on – this is not just another how to water-your-colony article. By: James Tew Bees need water – I get it. What else…
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