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Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Liquid nitrogen is very cold – between -320° and -346°F. And it’s not cheap, but Katie Lee told me you…
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Swarm Shaming I don’t know how everyone else’s Spring season went with their bees, but we had an insane amount of swarms this year….
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Processing thick honey from heavy combs. An aggressive colony in a suburban area. My opening comment last month For this continued honey processing topic, I…
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Bee Venom Therapy
If modern medicine is unable to help you, try Bee Venom Therapy (BVT)…you have little to lose. The use of honey bee products for…
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Pacific Northwest Foraging
In this series thus far we’ve jumped hither and yon over much of the West. This month, we’ll focus on the Northwest. “Pacific Northwest…
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Porter Bee Escape: Methods of Removing Honey
By: Jim Thompson Perhaps the oldest and quickest method in removing honey from a hive is the brush method where a beekeeper opens the…
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Solution to the Bee Problem?
By: David Donnelly The media has been all abuzz about a solution to a problem that is near and dear to us beekeepers. NBC…
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Urban Forests: Plant City Trees for City Bees
By Christine Taylor It starts in the trees, densely covered with thousands of flowers give bees an eco-rich source of nectar and pollen. However,…
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Selling Honey for $20 a Pound
30 Tips On Selling Honey. You Don’t Have To Be Clever, Just Honest By: Leo Sharashkin “Do you have local honey?” inquired a store…
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NOD Apiary Products’ Story Of Innovation The Challenge
Part 1, Developing An Environmentally Friendly Miticide By: David VanderDussen and Kathleen Ireland This article is the first of three about the process of…
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DOWNTOWN Easy Urban Crime Reduction
Apiary Hygiene! At this month’s club meeting, we handed out 6” by 16” rectangles of eight-to-the-inch hardware cloth to any member who wanted one,…
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Ed Colby
Two Dollops of Honey By the time you read this, it’ll be over. But right now, in the merry month of May, I…
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July- Regional Honey Market Report
Honey Label Use We took a look at honey jar labels this month, seeing what our reporters use, and don’t use. Perhaps you will…
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No Spraying Required
A Better Way To Protect Crops, and Bees By: John Dietz Beekeepers may be delivering a new service for crop producers, in North America…
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Pandora’s Box
African Honey Bees & Climate Change By: Ed Edwin Pandora, of classical Greek mythology, was given a box which contained all the evils of…
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Requeening, Again
By: Larry Connor The young worker looked at the owner, dumbfounded. “You want me to kill all the queens I find in these colonies?” The…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Extracting honey from cantankerous combs. Odds and Ends – Dark socks and crystallized honey. By: James E. Tew Extracting from cold, older combs I…
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Regional Honey Price Report
June Report Spring Reckoning We went to our reporters this month and asked about their Spring weather, and how it had affected the…
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Build a Sales Display
By: Ed Simon It was time to put a little pizazz into our sales display that we use for flea markets and other events….
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Pesticide Kill Redux
It has to do with the soil, rain and location. By: Bob Brachmann When the first break in the weather at the end of…
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