Book Review
Kim Flottom Form and Function in the Honey Bee, by Lesley Goodman. Published by Northern Bee Books and IBRA. Available on Amazon or from…
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Late Summer Early Autumn Tasks to Consider
By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years To be sure that information is…
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By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Bees are collected, either by shaking…
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INNERCOVER
By : Kim Flottum I’ve been attending one or the other, and sometimes but rarely both, of the National meetings in January almost every…
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INNERCOVER
By : 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…
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Getting Started. What You Need and Need to Know.
By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years This is a crash course in…
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INNERCOVER
2019 marks the 150th year the A.I. Root Company has been doing business in the beekeeping community. This is, without doubt, certainly something to…
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The Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum Acutally, It’s All About Honey A while ago I was talking about where food comes from and Mexico is certainly one…
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Selling 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…
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Safely Defining Honey. By: Kim Flottum Back in January we reported in the BUZZ that the ERS has sent a Report to the Commissioner…
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Reader Survey. Meeting Messages. By: Kim Flottum We recently conducted a reader survey. You may have been one of those contacted by the people…
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Old Guys. Honey Report. Invasives. By: Kim Flottum There are few things I enjoy more than attending a beekeeper’s meeting. It’s a place where…
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I’m jumping ahead this time but we’ll get back to Rule 3 soon. But this time I’m looking at something more timely…. The Seventh…
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Russian Bees Get It Right A noted honey bee scientist in the U.S. said some time ago he was weary of dealing with Varroa….
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Isolation is ideal, and mostly impractical any more. But for some it has worked for years. No new bees in the neighborhood can…
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Pest Management – Rule 4 Although the staple pests and diseases are still with us, and will rise and shine on occasion, the 5000…
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by Kim Flottum Finishing up on Rule 2 about having Good Genetics, we get to the basics…resistant of the common problems, efficient producers, and…
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Rule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a…
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Picking up where we left off with Good Queens, the next obvious piece of this is that good queens should be healthy beyond belief….
Read MoreTen Rules of Modern Beekeeping… Part 1
10 Rules of Modern Beekeeping There are, I’m certain, far more than 10 rules that you can use to guide you through the common…
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