If you want to learn more self-sufficiency skills, this homesteading skills checklist has 16 ideas for beginners to start with.
Learn how to start beekeeping with this easy guide for beginners. Get expert tips on equipment, hive setup, and caring for your first bees.
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How to Make a Nucleus Honeybee Colony (and Prevent Established Hives From Swarming): If you're reading this, then chances are you've had a hive survive the winter. Congratulations, now you must work even harder than the first year, because that established hive will now do what hives do in the spring- swarm! Its your job as a beek…
How To Build Your Own DIY Top Bar Beehive
As Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) brings a beehive back to the Sculpture Garden, revisit our 2015 interview with beekeeper Andrew Coté.
Learn how to pull realtime sensor data from a beehive to monitor its weight, temperature, and humidity over the internet.
Using homemade Varroa mite treatment alternatives are just as effective as using commercially produced products sold through various outlets. Learn more.
Discover how long honeybees live, including the lifespans of worker bees, queen bees, and drones, and the factors influence their longevity.
Today, I’m repeating a post I made a few months ago. It’s about the importance of sketching and drawing stuff develops our observation skills. The reason I'm repeat this piece now is because tomorrow (October 26, 2016), the University of Newcastle is offering a MOOC on drawing from nature. This is relevant to beekeepers because…
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Building a Honey Extractor (using an 'antique' Washing Machine): HOMEBUILT HONEY EXTRACTOR (aka The Honey Machine!)Commercial Honey Extractors are devices used to extract honey from honeybee 'frames'. This is achieved by 'uncapping' each frame/comb, and loading that frame/comb into the extractor, and 'spinning o…
Every spring we hold a free Beekeeping Overview Workshop at our store to give folks an idea of what it takes to become a successful beekeeper. From the basics of care to the expense and time commitment required, we try to cover all the important elements of this great hobby so our customers can make an informed decisio
New beekeepers may not be aware that there are many types of bottom boards available. Each brings a different set of benefits to the table beekeepers.
Advice on getting started with keeping honeybees by Linda Tillman of 'Linda's Bees'. Includes tips on hive location, equipment, books, and where to begin.
Advice on getting started with keeping honeybees by Linda Tillman of 'Linda's Bees'. Includes tips on hive location, equipment, books, and where to begin.
Learn how to tackle wax moth in beehives. With preventive measures, and effective treatments safeguard your beehives.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on beehives, with beekeeping tracing back to ancient Egypt¹. These hives aren’t just for honey; they’re essential
No doubt about it, the world of bees is dominated by women. It’s the female workers that tend to the hive and produce the honey, the complex happenings of the colony overseen by the powerful Queen. Sure, the male drones
