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Articles by Backyard Beekeeping Contributor

Raise Bees in Your Backyard

Everything You Need to Know about Raising Honeybees from Beehives for Beginners to Beekeeper Supplies to Why Pollination is Important

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Best Wildflowers for Honeybees

In recent years, the role of wildflowers in feeding honeybees has been widely misunderstood.

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Establishing a Successful Bee Garden

The right flowers, fruit, and vegetables in your garden will attract some of your own bees, as well as welcoming other visitors such as the bumblebee and solitary bee species.

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Garden Plan for Pollinators

Design choices, plant selections, and maintenance practices can make a huge difference in creating your own healthy ecosystem.

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Save Time Building Frames Using a Jig

Winter is the time for a beekeeper to prepare for spring! Now is the perfect time to get a jump start on springtime preparations by building equipment like frames.

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How to Make a Bee Hotel

Add to Favorites By Leah Grunzke – Solitary bees face some of the same threats to their population as honey bees do. Loss of habitat is perhaps the single biggest …

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Fire Cider Recipe with Raw Honey

Fire cider is an old home remedy for the runny noses and sniffles before they develop into full-blown colds or flu. Even if you already have a cold or the flu, drinking shots of fire cider can help ease symptoms and might even reduce the duration of a virus.

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Honey Herbes De Provence Recipe

Expensive to buy and sometimes hard to find, you can make your own Herbes de Provence recipe blend.

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How to Harvest Bee Pollen

Many a beekeeper will eventually come to wonder how to harvest bee pollen, and when, and even if they should. What do you need to know first?

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How to Support Your Solitary Bee Population

There are more than 20,000 species of solitary bees. Native to nearly every corner of the globe, they are adapted to a vast diversity of climates and habitats.

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