Making Increase
By: Patrick Dwyer A Comparison of Different Methods of Obtaining Honey Bees Making increase is a fundamental activity of beekeeping whether one is a…
Read More2017
Social Media
By: Jessica Dally You Can’t Ignore It, and You Really Don’t Want To Several years ago I wrote up various articles in Bee Culture…
Read More
It’s Hive Inspection Day With My Mentor
By: Ann Harman My mentor is coming at 2 PM today. We could not examine the colonies yesterday because it was cool and rainy….
Read More
Certified Grown
By: Alice Varon Much More Than a Marketing Label How can you have organic honey? That’s not an uncommon question when I talk with…
Read More
Funky City Apiaries Can Make Urban Lifestyle Even Cooler
By: Toni Burnham Get ready: this column is about to contradict itself. Kind of. Our overall message each month (yawn) is meant to be…
Read More
What Kind of Honey is This?
By: Jim Thompson Every flower has its own special honey unique in color, flavor and profile According to the United States Department of Agriculture,…
Read More
Installing Packages
By: Kim Flottum Bees are collected, either by shaking frames in to a funnel that fills the package, or by bouncing a whole super…
Read More
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…
Read More
Plant These For Bees and the Holidays This Year.
By: Kurt Knebusch and Paul Snyder Here’s seven hollies that can take it when Jack Frost nips at their noses. They thrive in bleak…
Read More
Small But Mighty, The Common Striped Skunk
By Barbara Gillette Call To Arms On a bright sunny morning you arrive at the apiary ready to inspect your hives. It is bloom…
Read More