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Harvest Your Honey – Podcast

KBB Editor — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:47:59 +0000

Harvest Your Honey On this episode of Keeping Backyard Bees podcasts, Charlotte Brunin and Robert Riley meet with Becky and Steve Tipton to discuss all this honey including how to harvest from a Langstroth Hive. Our Guests: Becky Tipton and her husband, Steve, own Country Creek Honey and have been producing and selling honey for […]

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The Best Beehives for Beginners

Hilary Kearney — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:33:33 +0000

I can see in their face that they expect a finite answer. They want my blessing or a warning against a certain hive style, but they are destined for disappointment. As with so many questions in beekeeping, my answer is not a simple "yes" or "no". Read on for an exploration of this common query.

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Hands-Off Beekeeping

Susan Chernak McElroy — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:59:09 +0000

There is conventional beekeeping in Langstroth hives. And then, there is beekeeping a wholly "other way."

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Top 5 Reasons Not to Treat Your Bees With Chemicals

Scott Offord — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:30:28 +0000

If you’ve kept bees for any length of time, you’ve probably come to realize that doing so effectively requires a lot of work. In particular, bees are often vulnerable to disease as well as mites and other pests. Controlling these threats may be quite difficult, and many beekeepers opt to enlist the help of chemical […]

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Treatment-Free Beekeeping Explained

Scott Offord — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:06:46 +0000

In order to explain treatment-free beekeeping in a manner that is productive, it is first necessary to understand that there are many definitions of what exactly “treatment-free” means. In this article, I bring to light various opinions that exist and put forth a definition that attempts to clarify the topic of treatment-free beekeeping for the […]

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HIVE ENTRANCES: Making a Bee Gauntlet

Susan Chernak McElroy — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:16:04 +0000

On a very frigid winter day a couple of months ago, I bundled up in my down parka and went to the bee yard to do my daily “Clear Away.” Two of my Top Bar hives came with bottom entrances—those long slits that run across the bottom of the hive face. Taking a thin stick […]

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What Is My Appalachian Rotatable Beehive?

Carl Jackson — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:35:23 +0000

My patented rotatable beehive design mimics the natural cavity of a tree while making the hobby of beekeeping easier for the elderly and those with other physical disabilities or limitations.

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