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Thinking about becoming a beekeeper? That's fantastic! But before you dive headfirst into the world of honey and hives, it's important to separate...
After 11 years of use and abuse, I finally threw my beekeeping suit away and began searching for a new one. There were things I loved about my old...
Looking to buy bees for the spring? Here's a simple breakdown of your options (nuc versus a package), what they mean and some extra tips on what to...
I've had a lot of compost piles over the years – indoors, outdoors, worm bins – you name it, I probably tried it. Every compost had...
Isn't honeycomb AMAZING? How do these tiny honey bees take an empty space and fill it with this honeycomb-shaped cells? Why do they put the work...
How do you care for bees? Let's break down the role of the beekeeper into 8, easy to follow parts so that you know how to take care of your...
Finding eggs in your beehive is tricky. They're so darn small, and they're in these little dark tunnels. What's a beekeeper to do? In this video,...
This is my absolute favorite lip balm! It's soft, smells nice, soothes my dry lips in the winter and is really easy to make. If you're new to...
A very important part to helping your honey bees survive cold, winter weather (also called overwintering a beehive) is making sure there is...
So you want to become a beekeeper? I broke down the process to getting started keeping bees into 10 actionable steps for you to take. Ready?
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One of the first steps to becoming a beekeeper is understanding the hive - where a colony of bees lives.
The hive is a fairly simple...
It doesn't matter if you have just a few hives or hundreds of hives, there are lots of ways you can make some money from your bees. Our new...
I put off buying an electric extractor for a long time! They're big, and they're SO expensive. The cheapest electric extractor I could find online...
Splitting a beehive is when the beekeeper takes some brood (the baby bees) and honey from a beehive and puts them into an empty beehive in...
The crush and strain method is the best way to harvest honey when you have one or two hives or are in your first year of beekeeping. The set up and...
In 1851, the Langstroth beehive was invented. This allowed beekeepers to move frames around within the hive without harming the...
It can be scary when you open your hive and see queen cells. Are they going to swarm? Did they swarm already? Is the queen dead? These are usually...
The hardest part of beekeeping is handling the death of a hive, but when a hive perishes, the beekeeper has to put aside their emotions...
The beehive starts off small in the spring. Maybe there's a few thousands bees and a queen inside, but over the course of weeks and months, the...
So you got your bees. Hooray! Now what???? My first year as a beekeeper was a confusing one. I took a class and read a lot of books, but there...
