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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 was...
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 order to 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 cl...
In 1851, the Langstroth beehive was invented. This allowed beekeepers to move frames around within the hive without harming the honeycomb. However, wh...
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...
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 and figure out...
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 bees g...
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 was sti...
Propolis is one of the lesser-known items you can harvest from a beehive, but it still has a lot of great uses! Propolis is high in antibacterial, ant...
Do you have old comb, wax cappings and lots of little pieces of dirty, sticky wax sitting around? This is how I clean, otherwise called render, my bee...
You open a beehive, look around, and then what? What exactly are the bees doing and how can you tell the difference between honey, baby bees and polle...
Comb honey is honey that is not removed from the honeycomb before consumption. It is not strained or heated or spun or squished. It's, simply, t...
Here's some tips on how to sell your honey wholesale.
Tip#1 - Have a nice product sheet with everything on it. Below is the first page of our product...
Let's talk about planting for bees. Planting nectar-producing flowers is one of the top things you can do to help the pollinators.
Why Honey Bees...
A varroa mite test is a test the beekeeper conducts to see what the percentage of mites to bees are in the hive.
The beekeeper takes a half of a cup...
Honey bees are social creatures. They live in a nest of tens of thousands of bees and this nest is their key to survival.
In order to understand h...
Is beekeeping hard? Well, it's not easy. It's nature and so it's not an exact science. After 10 years, I am still challenged and see new things. Does ...
How much should you charge for your honey? Pricing your honey can be tricky. You don't want to be the cheapest honey on the block, but if it's too ...
It's possible for even a beginner backyard beekeeper to make money from beekeeping. It might be a few years until you can quit your day job, but, hey,...
