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Bees Are Friends:

April 17, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Beekeeping 101

Everyone can be a friend to the bees, even toddlers. You don’t necessarily have to own hives and a bee suit to do so. It all starts with the heart, and if we can educate and empower our communities to love bees instead of fear them — it’s a domino effect from there.

Bee Food or Human Food?

April 17, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Plants & Pollination

Although bee pollen has yet to be confirmed as a health cure-all, that it doesn’t mean humans can’t benefit from eating it.

Lessons Learned Building Layens Hives

March 10, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Hives & Equipment

We can’t keep an entire field of bees, nor do we have the time to check on them, add boxes, or extract honey weekly. Therefore, we tried beekeeping with Layens hives.

Why are bees important?

February 25, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Honey & Beeswax

Bees provide an ecosystem that is pollinated, protected, and maintained. In other words, bees pollinate food crops. However, if this small percentage of wild bee species disappears, then 80% of our agricultural system may collapse.

Sweet as Mad Honey

February 14, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Honey & Beeswax

In the lore of the bee world, one can often find references to the mysterious “mad honey.” Mad honey is made exclusively from a certain species of rhododendron and is a brilliant red color.

Honeybees Bring Hope to Rural Appalachia

February 4, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Feature Story

Thanks to the industrious honeybee, there’s hope on the horizon for many unemployed individuals in rural Appalachia, West Virginia.

Bee Jobs

January 9, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Beekeeping 101

From the day they emerge from their cells, bees know exactly what to do and when to do it. So, how do bees get jobs?

Bumblebees: The Big Buzz Pollinator

January 9, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Plants & Pollination

Most of us are familiar with bumblebees, primarily due to their size, bright yellow and black colors, and loud buzzing. This calm, passive bee, of which there are about 50 species in the United States, is one of the largest native bees, with the queen being about twice the size of her workers.

Making Merry

January 7, 2022 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Honey & Beeswax

Mead may be one of the oldest fermented drinks invented by man; traces of fermented honey wine found in China date back to 7,000 B.C.

How to Make Honey Soap

November 10, 2021 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Hive Highlights, Honey & Beeswax

When adding honey to soap, the typical ratio is one teaspoon of honey per pound of oils in the soap. Measure out the honey beforehand and dissolve it in a small amount of hot distilled water.

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