Beekeeping

How To Set Up Your First Beehive

Imagine you're sitting at a four-way intersection, a red stop light hanging above you, while the hum of buzzing comes…

9 years ago

2016 Year-End Review

A full rotation of the Earth around the sun has brought us once again to the end of the calendar…

9 years ago

DIY mouse-guards: how and when to install them on your beehive

Harvest is now past, the leaves are falling from the trees to blanket the Earth as we move deeper into the…

9 years ago

Feeding Bees in the Fall

It's that time of year when beekeepers are ramping up winter preparations for their beehives. We're inspecting hives for colony…

9 years ago

No honey to sell….again

It's difficult to be at market and have to tell customers that I'm not going to have any honey this…

9 years ago

DIY screened bottom board “sticky-stuff”

The beginning of August signifies the end of the spring nectar flow here in Maine. At this point in the…

9 years ago

Moving beehives

The sky was just beginning to lighten Saturday morning as I went out to the apiary with scissors and a…

9 years ago

Swarm!

A swarm of bees is a beautiful thing. A veritable cloud of bees all flying in every direction as they…

9 years ago

The sustainable apiary─brood factories & bee bombs

For years now Mike Palmer of French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans, Vermont, has been working to convince beekeepers that…

10 years ago

Bee-school crash course

I'll be at the Somerset County Cooperative Extension in Skowhegan this Saturday giving my annual bee-school. This will be my…

10 years ago