Category: August 2024
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Honey Recipe
Cowboy Candy By: Julie Matthews Ingredients □ 3 lbs jalapeños □ 2 cups apple cider vinegar □ 5 cups honey □ 1 tsp celery seed □ ½ tsp ginger □ 1 tsp turmeric □ 1 tsp cayenne pepper □ 2 Tbsp garlic powder Directions Step 1 Bring your canner to a boil and have jars…
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A Fun Bee Removal
By: Ettamarie Peterson The call came from a contractor who had been hired to refurbish a very old barn up on our little Sonoma Mountain not far from where I live. He told me the barn was over a hundred years old and the owner wanted it to be around for another hundred years. His…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Counting Bees By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel How Many Bees? What impresses non-beekeepers the most about a colony of bees is the sheer number of bees. Six hundred thousand bees does drop…
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Old Broken Things
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Opposites attract. My wife and I are verified proof of that. Look no further than our cleaning habits. As a child, I learned early on that shoving toys under the…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Egg Sizing By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab James Tew gave a great review of The Quiet, Quick Life of the Honey Bee Egg in the May 2024 issue of Bee Culture.…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column The Eclipse and My Bees By: Richard Wahl Weather’s Influence on Bees The recent April 8 total solar eclipse provided a rare opportunity to observe how that affected weather and…
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Beekeeping Information – Good and Bad
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Telling the Difference is Not Always Easy By: James E. Tew A foot in two worlds I have discussed this information concept in previous Bee Culture articles but it’s still on my mind…
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Maximizing Honey Yields
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A Review of Factors Impacting the Size of Your Honey Harvest – Some Things You Have Control Over and Some Things You Don’t By: Ross Conard The primary product of beekeeping is pollination.…