Beekeeping 101
The Ins and Outs of Buying Bees
Add to Favorites Every spring potential beekeepers begin to get excited about starting to keep bees. They read beekeeping books and articles, and talk to experienced beekeepers about everything from …
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8 Ways to Be a Courteous Backyard Beekeeper
Add to Favorites Being a good beekeeping neighbor is something all backyard beekeepers should be concerned about. When we started talking about keeping bees we knew we’d have to be …
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5 Honey Bees to Consider, Including Buckfast Bees
Add to Favorites One of the first questions a beekeeper asks is, “What kind of bees should I keep?” There are many bees to choose from: Carniolan, German, Italian, Russian, …
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Adventures in Raising Honey Bees
Add to Favorites By D. Parnell, Tennessee – I am not a professional beekeeper in any way, shape or form. It’s been said that if you speak with 25 different beekeepers, you’ll learn of 25 …
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Top 10 Reasons for Starting Beekeeping
Why are honeybees important? Honeybees are important not because of honey, which certainly is a tasty, nutritious and more importantly, environmentally neutral sweet but honey is simply a by-product of pollination. Pollination is the most important thing honeybees do. Pollination is the transfer of pollen (male) to structures (stigma) on another flower of the same species.
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How to Start Beekeeping in Your Backyard
Add to Favorites This year we started raising honey bees. I wanted to do this for the last couple of years but for one reason or another, it didn’t work …
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My Honey Bee Farming Project Year One
Add to Favorites This year was our first for keeping bees on the homestead. First we had to learn all about starting beekeeping, and I am glad we started by …
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