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 buy all answered here. what kind of beekeeping suit and beekeeping veil is good? what kind of frames should i use in [...]
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 in another part of town. Our second beeyard is near the center of town, right next to the cemetery. The honeybees and [...]
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 sugar syrup in the spring or fall. I haven’t read this in any of my beginning beekeeping books, nor was it mentioned [...]
I have a bad cold, and my microphone picked up the sounds of me having a cold. sorry bout that… Bedbugs, The Common Cold, Pork Shoulder, Cooking for French People, Lifecasters, Hackintosh, Colony Collapse, Dry Rubs, Crab Cocktail in San Fran, and Viewer Mail! More cool stuff: www.GardenFork.TV Dry Rub Recipes: http://www.buttrub.com/recipes.html Colony Collapse: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&ref=dining [...]
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 the bees, our plan was to powder sugar the bees to treat for varroa mites, and add new grease patties for tracheal [...]
We are going to start a second beeyard at another farm. We wanted to have a second beeyard as a hedge against the chance that a bear will destroy our existing hives.
Our hives in their current location are surrounded by a traditional electric fence, three strands, and is part of a larger electric fence to keep beef cattle in their pasture. Bill, who owns the farm where our hives are, thinks the local bears are already aware of his electric fence, and have not tried to get to our beehives.
We pulled the inner cover on our biggest hive, and it was not easy this time. The honeybees had sealed it pretty tight with propopolis, a waxy resin that bees collect from trees.
Monica joins Mike and Eric to talk more about beer cooler sous vide, grilling, food & meat safety, $1 cookies at the farmers market.
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 [...]
In late winter, when you have a warm day, say 44-50 F, its a great opportunity to quickly check your honeybees and beehive. In this beginning beekeeping video, we show how we open the hive and place some fondant and a grease patty in the hive to get the bees through the last bit of winter. Your honeybees may or may not have enough food stores to make it thru this last part of winter, but I am of the mind that it pays to put in some fondant. Other beekeepers will have differing opinions on this, and many other practices related to beekeeping. It is too cold to feed your honeybees sugar syrup in late winter, feed them fondant.
After reading a glowing article in Bee Culture about Jennifer Berry and her excellent queen rearing program, we have decided to replace the queens in both our hives with queens from Jennifer Berry. Why requeen? What is most important to me is the bees display what is called hygenic behavior. This means they keep the [...]
