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I've had a lot of compost piles over the years – indoors, outdoors, worm bins – you name it, I probably tried it. Every compost had it's own issues th...
Isn't honeycomb AMAZING? How do these tiny honey bees take an empty space and fill it with this honeycomb-shaped cells? Why do they put the work into ...
How do you care for bees? Let's break down the role of the beekeeper into 8, easy to follow parts so that you know how to take care of your bees.
Ste...
Finding eggs in your beehive is tricky. They're so darn small, and they're in these little dark tunnels. What's a beekeeper to do? In this video, I go...
This is my absolute favorite lip balm! It's soft, smells nice, soothes my dry lips in the winter and is really easy to make. If you're new to making b...
A very important part to helping your honey bees survive cold, winter weather (also called overwintering a beehive) is making sure there is enough ven...
Becoming a beekeeper is a rewarding experience, but it does require preparation and quite a bit of learning. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you g...
One of the first steps to becoming a beekeeper is understanding the hive - where a colony of bees lives.
The hive is a fairly simple structure, but ...
It doesn't matter if you have just a few hives or hundreds of hives, there are lots of ways you can make some money from your bees. Our new course is ...
I put off buying an electric extractor for a long time! They're big, and they're SO expensive. The cheapest electric extractor I could find online was...
Splitting a beehive is when the beekeeper takes some brood (the baby bees) and honey from a beehive and puts them into an empty beehive in order to in...
The crush and strain method is the best way to harvest honey when you have one or two hives or are in your first year of beekeeping. The set up and cl...
In 1851, the Langstroth beehive was invented. This allowed beekeepers to move frames around within the hive without harming the honeycomb. However, wh...
It can be scary when you open your hive and see queen cells. Are they going to swarm? Did they swarm already? Is the queen dead? These are usually the...
The hardest part of beekeeping is handling the death of a hive, but when a hive perishes, the beekeeper has to put aside their emotions and figure out...
The beehive starts off small in the spring. Maybe there's a few thousands bees and a queen inside, but over the course of weeks and months, the bees g...
So you got your bees. Hooray! Now what???? My first year as a beekeeper was a confusing one. I took a class and read a lot of books, but there was sti...
Propolis is one of the lesser-known items you can harvest from a beehive, but it still has a lot of great uses! Propolis is high in antibacterial, ant...
Do you have old comb, wax cappings and lots of little pieces of dirty, sticky wax sitting around? This is how I clean, otherwise called render, my bee...
You open a beehive, look around, and then what? What exactly are the bees doing and how can you tell the difference between honey, baby bees and polle...
