I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
Branden posted this link as a comment a previous post: Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?. The article says, in part: In a study published in the new journal from the Society for Applied Microbiology: …
I decided to take advantage of the fact that I have a clean slate to work with (my hives having died over winter) and fix some problems with my set-up. For one, as previously noted, …
I’ve got my order in for two 4 lbs packages of bees. This year, I’m getting my bees through the Whidbey Island Beekeeper’s Association (the “Whidbees”), so I had the option of getting Carniolan queens …
I wanted to briefly bubble up a couple interesting notes from private messages and the comments section of previous posts: Consensus is that the reason store bought honey tends to stay liquid longer than “craft” …
Well, I lost my second hive to the extra cold winter, although I have no doubt that the cold weather merely delivered the final cut, it was mites that left them weakened. To better address …
I’m not really sure who this will disturb more, the people who enjoy my honey or the people who get in my hot tub. Either way, I’m feeling pretty clever. Here’s the problem: properly extracted …
In a previous post, I asked what the standard arrangement is when a beekeeper sets his hive on someone else’s property: do you pay rent? how much? Or ought the property owner being paying for …
I got an interesting note from Lou of the Gotham City Beekeepers today: You may not have known, or even cared, but beekeeping is illegal in NYC. This became a problem for a number of …
I got this question from a reader the other day: I have someone that is interested in putting bee hives on my property, what would be the norm for compensation for such an arrangement? Are …
