Bee Venom and the Chemistry of Ouch
By: Sharla Riddle This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Zap! Stings happen. Even the most…
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Smartweeds and Knotweeds as Bee Plants
By: Connie Krochmal This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Members of the buckwheat family can…
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Honey Harvest: Early or Later
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years When is the right time for…
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Mentoring
By: David MacFawn, Larry Coble and Jack Banker Elliott III This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three…
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Varroa Counting Made Easier
By: William Hesbach This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Accurate estimation of a colony’s population…
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Hive Tasks For Second and Third Year Beekeepers
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years • Harvest honey during first two…
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By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years • The bees’ New Year begins…
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The Queen: Ruler or Ruled!
By: Morris Ostrofsky This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The queen is often referred to…
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What My Bees Tell Me
By: Ann Chilcott This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Yes, they will tell you much…
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Make Creamed Honey
By: Ed Simon This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years You have finished with your extraction…
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Better Hive Stands
By: James E. Tew This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years This may be the golden…
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2 Hives – Why Two?
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Every beginner needs to start beekeeping…
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City Bees: Ten Things You Can Do to Help Urban Honey Bees
By: Toni Burnham This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years 1. SPEAK UP FOR BEES AT…
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History of the British National Honey Show
The National Honey Show grew from origins in 1921 of a joint honey show held by two county associations in south east England, Kent…
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Keeping Bees in the Kingdom of the West
By: Melanie Kirby Morocco’s Beekeeping Is Similar To Our’s, But Their Culture Is So Different. I’ve never been to this part of the world….
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Herbs & Veggies & Flowers, Oh My!
By: Janet Davis Some For You, Some For the Bees. Herbs have been grown for honey bee forage for millennia, ever since ancient Greeks…
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DOWNTOWN Keeping Bees Where The Poop Hits The Fan
A Bunch Of Other Machinery, Too. I recently told a reporter (who wasn’t there for me) that this should be her headline: Largest Sewage…
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August Honey Market Report
What’s Important In Selling Honey. We surveyed our reporters again this month to find out what principles and what items were important to their…
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The Inner Cover
We have a garden every year. I know a lot of people that have bees have gardens. They sort of go hand in hand….
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It’s Summers Time!
CHICKENS, MOWING, JUST BEING OUTSIDE. I hope you are all having a wonderful, sunny, warm – but not too warm – Summer. We took…
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