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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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 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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It’s Hive Inspection Day With Your Mentee!
By: Ann Harman Every student of the beginning beekeeper classes of the East Cupcake Beekeepers Association is assigned a mentor. In order to help…
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By Ed Colby Galveston Paul and I depart in the teeth of a snowstorm. Over Vail Pass, up the long hill to the Eisenhower…
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One Hundred Years Down A Breeding Rabbit Hole
By: Bob Brachmann Over the last 33 years, starting with the discovery of tracheal mites in the U.S., there’ve been many new challenges to honey…
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Sugar For Bees
By: Ann Harman To feed or not to feed… (My apologies to Will S.) We want our honey bees to survive and live a good…
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Just Mite Work!
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden We live in the foothills of the Cascades in western Washington, northeast of Seattle. While we’re not technically in…
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Winter? What’s That?
By: Ann Harman While Old Man Winter is delivering wind and snow to the north, let’s take a little vacation way down south where…
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WAS 2016
Notes From The Hawaii Meeting By: Malcolm Sanford The 2016 version of the Western Apicultural Society (WAS) met in Hawaii October 12 through 15…
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HELP
We need a speaker! Well, here’s some ideas for your club. It’s January and the East Cupcake Beekeepers Association does not have a speaker…
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Sharing Knowledge
Iraqi Youth Learn From Oregon Beekeepers By: Charlie Vanden Heuvel Portland Urban Beekeepers (PUB) hosted a delegation of enthusiastic, Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program…
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Do I Need a Vet for My Bees?
by- Chris Cripps A Q&A on FDA’s new antibiotic regulations. Q. I heard I have to have a veterinarian for my bees –…
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Master Beekeeping Programs
by- Jerry Bromenshenk The face of beekeeping education looks vastly different than it did 10 years ago and is continuing to change. There is…
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International Pollinator Conference 2016
2016 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State University will be hosting the third International…
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Pollinator Day August 13, 2016
On the 13th of August we’re holding our second Pollinator Day here at the Root Company’s Pollinator Meadow, behind our Corporate Headquarters. There’s a…
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It’s Time For A New Extractor And Maybe, A New Honey House
By: Ann Harman Never again! The club’s two-frame, hand-cranked extractor was just fine a few years ago for Robert’s two hives but this year with…
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What’s For Lunch?
by Ann Harman Over the many centuries of man’s association with bees, including throughout beekeeping husbandry, one fact was well-known – if there…
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Saving Native Bees and Honey Bees
by Jenny Flores We have all heard about the disappearance of honey bees and there is certainly cause for concern. With honey bees…
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New This Month
If Bees Are Few. A HIVE OF BEE POEMS. Edited by James P. Lenfestey. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Afterword by Marla Spivak. Published by…
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