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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 years ago

Moving beehives

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

10 years ago

Swarm!

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

10 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