Mountain States Foraging
By: Connie Krochmal This month we’ll take a look at another volume in the Timber Press series on foraging – “Mountain States Foraging – 115…
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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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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James E. Tew This month can we just talk? Today is dark, cool, and raining. Good time for conversation. In this article, can…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby A Road Trip Last Fall on my gal Marilyn’s birthday trip to Cortez, Colorado, we visited the Pueblo cliff dwellings in…
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Reframing
Finding a Better Way to Fix Frames By: D.E. Bentley The frames, strung up between trees on clothesline, looked like an art installation with…
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The Trails and Tribulations of a New Delaware Bee Club
By: Dewey Caron Nobody said it would be easy. It wasn’t. Starting bees can be a challenge. Starting beehives and a new bee club…
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Get Your Bait Hives Ready!
By: Morris Ostrofsky Recently I was corresponding with a German friend for whom English is a second language about bait boxes. It seems that…
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Swarm Instinct
By: Barbara Gillette On a late sunny afternoon in early August, intuition calls me out to my small apiary of three hives. I checked my…
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The Spin Around Queen
By: Billy Davis The Sustainable Honeybee Program (SHP) had its origin with a queen-rearing project back in the late 1990s. A location in rural…
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Building Community By Killing Varroa
By: Toni Burnham Losing Too Many Hives Here’s an admission: I have been complaining a lot about urban beekeeping lately. For my first six years,…
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Writing Beekeeping History
By: Bill Mares & Ross Conrad How Vermont Is Making It Work The Story of One State’s Beekeeping History – How some Vermont beekeepers are…
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Young Harris Institute
By: Jennifer Berry It’s amazing how many meetings and workshops one could attend around the county, state, or country. This week alone at only one…
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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison POLLEN CONSUMPTION AND DIGESTION Protein (pollen) consumption is necessary for the glands to develop fully and to produce high quality protein-rich…
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Jay Evans
By: Jay Evans Studying The Weather Goes A Long Way In Knowing Colony Health Honey bee colonies, along with humans and the rest of…
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Sunny and Chair
By: Alan Guebert The chairman gaveled the Ag Committee to order. “We’re here today,” he announced in his best radio voice, “to rapidly confirm…
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From a Beekeeper’s Wife-
The Farm, March 1, 1917. Dear Sis, Rob is making out the order for new beekeeping supplies for this year, and while he does…
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Flower Power
The Physics Of Pollination By: Marie Davey Pollination. The word brings to mind the droning buzz of fat yellow and black bumblebees bouncing from…
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Pesticides in Colonies Linked to Honey Bee Deaths
By: Kirsten Traynor and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, et al* Honey bee colonies in the United States have been dying at high rates for over a…
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The Layens Hive
By: Leo Sharashkin Using Local bees, And An Appropriate Hive.Unconventional? Perhaps. “Keeping bees requires little effort, and barely any capital to get started,” wrote…
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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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