SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING
By : Meghan Milbrath I used to keep a small flock of sheep, and I would go through a lot of hay. One day…
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Found In Translation – Winter Stirrings
By : Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Some people say spring starts with the mating of great-horned owls in late December. These people are…
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Imagining The Unimaginable – A World Where Honey Bees Thrive
By : Ross Conrad In the September 2018 issue of Bee Culture we explored what a world in which honey bees and pollinators are…
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BUYING AND SELLING BEES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
By : Bill Ruzicka PACKAGES, NUCS, SPLITS, AND SWARMS were created for traditional northern beekeeping when the bees were gassed and killed after the…
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Creating A Beekeeper Meeting
By : Ann Harman Well, you did it! You volunteered to be Meeting Chairman. Now what? It all depends on whether your club is…
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It’s Summers Time – January, Travel and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
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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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The Story of A. I. Root – In The Jewelry Business
By : A.I. Root An old gentleman once gave me some advice that has been of benefit to me all my life. He was…
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COLOSS
By : Malcolm Sanford Takes On The Small Hive Beetle The new lab wasted little time getting on the world’s honey bee research and extension…
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The Colony That Would Not Die
By : James E. Tew “I can hear you!” Many years ago, I had what was to be a “typical surgical procedure.” It went…
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The Risky Business Of Pesticides
By : Johnathan Lundgren There Are Consequences Of Pesticides That Stand Beyond Fence Lines It is easy for a farmer to justify applying a…
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It’s Summers Time – More Travel. Upcoming Events. Losing Friends.
By : Kathy Summers It’s funny – last month I wrote about a difficult trip home from the airport and just last night we…
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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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Evaluating Dead Colonies
By : Ross Conrad It’s March in the Northeast and for beekeepers that all too often means finding dead colonies in the beeyard. Winter losses…
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The Story of A.I. Root – Beginning Bees
By : A. I. Root I have always been an enthusiastic admirer of old Dame Nature’s mysterious ways and workings. In August, 1865, a swarm…
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New Beekeeping Developments in the past 100 years
By : Peter Borst I know I will hear from some of you on this, but before you take pen in hand, give it a…
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Making Splits
By: David MacFawn Here’s how and when in the SE U.S. Splitting a colony is one way to control swarming. It is also a…
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Why We Produce Nucs And How We Do It – Whether for pleasure or profit, any beekeeper can benefit from producing nucs.
By: Bob Binnie Successful beekeeping in any form is fifty percent science and fifty percent art. In other words, fifty percent science and fifty…
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Spring Feeding
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The end of Winter and early…
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By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Let’s Face It – We Can…
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