Combining Hives – Beekeeping How-To
Last week I discovered one of our honeybee hives had lost its queen, we had a drone laying worker in the hive. A laying worker is a worker bee who, after the queen…
Drone Laying Worker in a Queenless Hive
When we check our honeybee hives, we first just stand there and observe them. We could tell there was something wrong with one of the hives. It was quiet, the hive next to…
Honeycomb Surprise during beehive inspection
With spring coming early, we got to do our first inspection of the beehives last weekend. All our hives made it through the winter, which, despite the warm weather, is still a roll…
Beekeeping for Beginners FAQ Part 2 : GF Radio
Matt joins Eric to answer Beekeeping for Beginners questions on this show. What equipment to buy, how to buy honeybees, where to put beehives in your yard, what kind of beekeeping suit to…
Sugar Cake Recipe for Honeybees
This winter feeding sugar cake recipe is an alternative to making fondant to feed your bees. From what I read in beekeeping magazines and online forums, it seems many people are moving to…
Preparing Beehives for Winter
Winter is coming. Just before the October storm that dumped 20″ of snow here, I went out to our two beeyards and got the beehives ready for winter. The biggest danger to beehives…
OMG – What Have I Done?
You’ve signed a two-year lease on what? Have you taken full-moon-French-leave of your senses…again? I can tell…She, Who Must Be Obeyed, is intrigued with the idea of my going into business for myself….
Honeybees landing loaded with pollen photo
We requeened this honeybee hive last month, and the bees are almost a pure yellow-gold color, its wild. This queen is a hybrid Italian honeybee queen that we bought from Warm Colors Apiary….
First Frames full of honey from new beehives
we did a beehive inspection last week and found the new honeybees to be in good shape. they have started to fill up their new frames with honey. this honey will stay in…
How to keep honeybees basic questions : GardenFork Radio
Want to know the basics of how to raise honeybees? what kind of beekeeping equipment you need to buy? what kind of beekeeping veil to buy? where is the best place to put…
Water your honeybees
We just shot another of our Beginning Beekeeping aka Beekeeping 101 videos and I wanted to show you how we water the bees. One of our two beeyards is near a vernal pond,…
New beehives in our second beeyard, bearproofing the beehives
We have a real bear problem in our town with bears, and bears really like to tear apart beehives. So to hedge our bets, we decided last year to start a second beeyard…
Honeybee sugar syrup: why use only cane sugar?
I’ve heard from more than one person, be them beekeepers or just people who think they know something about honeybees and beekeeping, that you should only use cane sugar to feed your bees…
Fall feeding for winter beehive prep
We are feeding our bees a 2-1 sugar syrup with fumagillin and essential oils to get them ready for winter. I think this tray type feeder works best. You can fill it with…
Bring Duct Tape when working honeybees
I wear Carhartt work pants. Whether I am in the city or in the country, I’m wearing Carhartt’s black canvas work dungarees. ( I do own one tan pair ) Yesterday, we worked…
