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    Beekeeping 101, a look back on the first year GF Radio

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 1 Comment

    GF Contributor Matt joins Eric to talk about his first year of beekeeping. Matt reflects on what real world beginning beekeeping is like after watching the Beekeeping 101 - How to keep bees videos on Gardenfork. Losing a hive, getting stung, how to find the queen in a hive, how not to kill the queen are all touched on.

    Matt wrote a series of articles on beginning beekeeping for our site, as he chronicled his first year of beginning beekeeping.

    Matt tells us about how to work a hive and yes, you should wear gloves and beehives are heavy. We agree with Rick's use of metal handles, as beehives get heavy. bees

    Beehives die, and why do they die? As Rick says, bees are bugs in a box, and bees don't read books. Eric offers a few reasons why the beehive died: a stressed queen, the queen was crushed when working the bees or putting the hive back together.

    Eric gives reasons for not buying bee packages, and especially not having bee packages sent in the mail. Buying local nucs is much better. Matt's experience with beginning beekeeping bears this out. His package of bees died, his nuc is going strong.

    Matt talked about a program in Virginia that funds beekeepers,

    Matt also talked about homemade  or DIY honey extractors, like this one on Mudsongs.org .

    We also talk about raised beds, and how to build raised beds using bricks or plastic lumber and the pros and cons of using different materials for building raised beds.

     

    photo by micky07

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    1. Martha

      January 27, 2013 at 11:16 pm

      Hi Eric,

      Thanks for all the great info on bee keeping. I wouldn't have been aware of the importance of bees and their fragile nature. I have learned so much from your blog, that I recently left broccoli that flowered alone. I was about to cut the flower part of the broccoli, when I realized that there were dozens of bees buzzing around the plant--cool! I didn't get to eat any broccoli, but the bees were having some fun!

      Thanks again and sorry to hear about your dog. Martha

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