Pollinator Day 2017
On Saturday, July 15th we’re holding our third Pollinator Day here at the Root Company’s Pollinator Meadow, behind our Corporate Headquarters. There’s a several…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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