Honeybees are going great today. Photo

How to Requeen a beehive : GardenFork.TV : Beginning Beekeeping

Requeening the hive is not rocket science, but you do need to know how to requeen a hive when you do this. This Beginning Beekeeping video will show you how to replace the queen in your beehive.

Don’t confuse people with silly theories : GardenFork Radio

This week we learn that Mike is a hockey fan, and he is not pleased with the NHL Network on Cable. And we talk about bees and beekeeping, and bee swarming and why you want to avoid swarms in your hives. Then we digress into many tangents. Like earthquakes and basement insurance, back up sump pumps and more.

Queen has been released in our newest beehive

The worker bees have released the queen bee from her queen cage which you can see in the lower right of the photo

Hiving a bee package into our new beehive

We’ve added a third hive to our beehives, and our package of bees arrived on Saturday. The weather was not great, cold and windy, so we thought we’d wait until the next day, Sunday. We kept our bees in the basement to keep them from overheating.
Sunday arrives with wind and 32F. Not good. But we [...]

Beehive lost to nosema?

I went over to a friend’s house yesterday to find he had lost a hive recently. There were few dead bees in the hive, but here was a ton of what I think is nosema in the hive, evidenced by the amount of bee droppings in the hive. Nosema is an intestinal ailment in honeybees, [...]

How to move a Beehive : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping

We decided to move one of our beehives, and learned how to move a beehive, and now we’ll show you how we moved the beehive.  ( that’s a lot of Beehives ) BUT, moving a beehive is not hard,  watch this Beginning Beekeping Series video and learn how.
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You show up and say, ‘Hey, you’re doing it wrong’

Mike and Eric talk about Jamie Oliver’s reality show about how he tries to change the eating habits of one of the heaviest towns in America, this year’s Maple Syrup season, Farmers Market shopping theories, salt pork and how to find recipes based on what you have in your fridge and of course, Viewer Mail!

How to Hive a Package of Bees : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping

How do you get your honeybees into your new hive? Its called Hiving a Package; a package of honeybees that you are going to introduce into their new hive. As part of our Beginning Beekeeper Video series, we show you how to put honeybees into your hive. Its not complicated, even Eric can do it.

Late Winter Check and Feeding of the Honey Bees

We’ve had a cold winter here, and we’ve had few opportunities to open up our hives to check on the bees.
It depends on which expert you are asking, but you should only open up a hive if its above about 45F. The rule I’ve read is if you have to wear a heavy jacket, you [...]