Experiences With a Top Bar Hive
By: David Dawson If you’re going to manage your top bar hive for honey production – you’re going to have problems. Introduction. Keeping bees…
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No Lifting!
Something Old Is New In America By: Brian Drebber Slovenian or AZ hives have been around as long as the more common Langstroth hive…
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A RUDE AWAKENING
By: Ross Conrad My typical Winter losses over the last decade have tended to hover between 10-18%. Not ideal, but far better than what most…
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What’s Going On?
By: Ann Harman “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.” James Russell Lowell, American poet, certainly…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby What Happens When? This Winter I drove over the mountains to put down a rebellion of beekeepers who thought they might…
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Cooking with Honey
By: Ann Harman The Spring months are famous for the pick-your-own strawberry patches and for ripe blueberries. Use some of your honey to enhance…
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U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2016
By: Kim Flottum Imports, exports, production and consumption from 2016. A somewhat new look and a lot of new data come with the Department…
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Southwest Foraging
By: Connie Krochmal For this month, let’s explore another volume in Timber Press’s foraging series. “Southwest Foraging-117 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Barrel Cactus…
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Brand Management
Review sites, bad reviews and good customer service. By: Jessica Dally In our last article, we discussed the Facebook algorithm. But of course, if…
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How to Set up a Beeyard
Guidelines For Finding The Best Location By: Daniel Thurston QUESTION: I’m making splits and increasing my colony numbers this bee season. I’m at the…
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Requeening
By: Larry Connor In Nature In Nature, queen replacement is a family event. When a queen is being a replaced, the worker bees recognize…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Extracting honey at the wrong time (Part 1). Some unsubstantiated thoughts on propolis. Just a bit more than a year ago…
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Downtown “Your City” Bees, LLC
By: Toni Burnham You Can Do This About a year and a half ago, one of my favorite newbee-ish beekeepers asked me to lunch….
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Bottom Board
What Happens When? This Winter I drove over the mountains to put down a rebellion of beekeepers who thought they might secede from the…
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The Polariscope
A Useful Tool For Judging Honey By: Jim Thompson A polariscope, according to the Random House Dictionary is: “an instrument for measuring or exhibiting…
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The Politics of Killing Bees- Pesticides
By: Katherine Kiefer Interest in honey bees and beekeeping in the U.S. has never been greater. Despite increased interest in the plight of honey…
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Regional Honey Market Report
May Report Business Plans So, what to expect, and what to do this honey season. With prices at best flat, and not looking very…
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What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden Keeping Records Beekeeping is a multisensory experience. You don’t just see the bees, you listen to them, you…
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Facebook Advertising
By: Jessica Dally Facebook marketing and the dreaded Facebook algorithm. What it is, why it matters, why people care. It has changed over the…
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The National Honey Bee Survey In Vermont
By: Ross Conrad Made Possible by Samantha Alger and Alex Burnham The massive increase in U.S. honey bee colony losses in the last decade has…
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