Once you get into bees and people start to find out you are a beekeeper, you immediately start getting calls about bees. Bees in house walls, bees in bushes, bees in the ground, and bees in a tree. When I get a call like this I immediately start asking questions to find out if these […]
This post is a continuation in a series on the “Central Commandments to Natural Beekeeping.” You can read all eight commandments in the post titled Sustainable Beekeeping, and you can read more about the first six commandments in Swarm Traps and Horizontal Hives, Let The Bees Eat Honey, and Bees Know What To Do. Number
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This post is a continuation in a series on the “Central Commandments to Natural Beekeeping.” You can read all eight commandments in the post titled Sustainable Beekeeping, and you can read more about the first four commandments in Swarm Traps and Horizontal Hives and Let The Bees Eat Honey. Number 5…“Only propagate your bees naturally, through
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This post is a continuation in a series on the “Central Commandments to Natural Beekeeping.” You can read about the first two commandments in the blog post Swarm Traps and Horizontal Hives. Number Three…“Never feed your bees sugar.” This one is very simple and easy to explain. Honey IS the best and most healthy food
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On our homestead we take a hands off approach to our animals (cats and dogs), livestock, and insects. This hands-off approach (except if there is an emergency) started after many years of taking care of animals and bad experiences. Cats with urinary tract infections, a vet that continued giving our dog steroids that masked an
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If you didn’t read the previous post, Sustainable Beekeeping, take a minute to peruse that post. This post will attempt to simply explain the first and second “commandments,” which is presented by the World’s Greatest Amateur Novice Beekeeper ????????…Adam. Number One…“Only keep bees of the local race…” This means swarm trapping around the area you
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Bee Kept with a more natural and sustainable way in your own apiary. I have been reading and rereading, Keeping Bees With A Smile written by Fedor Lazutin. Having a go-to book that aligns with your ideas on beekeeping is essential, and until I write my book, this is the book I recommend. In this
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