City Bees
Keeping Bees Up on the Roof Rooftop apiaries are probably the signature image of urban beekeeping. Downtown, we are often short on personal space,…
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Other Hives
Wintering Your Top Bar Hive Gold Star Honey bees® is a Maine company that manufactures top bar beehives. As the owner of the company…
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So, You Wanna Be A Beekeeper?
It’s easier than even to get started, buy harder than ever to survive… By: Eugene Makovec “The bee population is declining,” begins the description…
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Frame Time
All About Feeding Bees When the hot, sweltering days of summer finally break, we southerners put down our fans and mint juleps, and welcome…
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Summering Your Top Bar Hive
Consider Heat, Rain, and Queen Loss The results of the 2015-16 Bee Informed Partnership annual survey are in. It hurts to think that beekeepers…
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Treatment True
By: Dewey Caron Electing not to treat bees or seeking to move toward treatment-free is one of several possible options in bee colony stewardship. …
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Is Natural Really?
When the most recent and well-publicized phenomenon of honey bee disappearance, termed Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), began, it gave rise to serious concerns not…
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Beat the Heat
With Summer well underway, it is important to take proper precautions while working outside in the apiary. Full bee suits provide adequate protection from…
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City Bees
Mosquito Summer I have to credit one of our most impressive new(-ish) bees, Ted Mcginn, for first asking this question of our government bee-regulating…
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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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