beekeeping

Maine beekeepers State of the State Address

Every year at the annual meeting of the Maine State Beekeepers' Association our state apiarist, Anthony (Tony) Jadczak talks about…

10 years ago

Honeybees and the landscape

Studying under Professor Frank Drummond at the University of Maine, Brianne Du Clos is a PhD candidate studying how bees…

10 years ago

January hive check

What does a beekeeper do in the deep depths of winter when it's too cold and snowy for bees and…

10 years ago

Skunk relocation project

If you've been following along with my story you've likely already heard about the situation with our local skunk. He─or…

11 years ago

Runamuk’s first-ever on-farm workshop!

Saturday's "Beekeeping 101" workshop was a success and I am enamored--ecstatic--and relieved, lol. Okay, so there was only one student--but…

11 years ago

How was the Open-Hive Event?

With the Open-Hive behind me, the garden in maintenance mode, and the bees content to do their thing, there's a…

11 years ago

Open-hive event at Runamuk

We've got a beautiful location for this event, and new Queens arriving this week--so as long as the weather cooperates,…

11 years ago

Licensed to process

A week ago today I was in a frantic frenzy to get the Runamuk homestead de-cluttered, cleaned, and scoured in…

12 years ago

Open-Hive for Summer Solstice

It wasn't the way I had intended to celebrate the summer solstice, but because last Saturday was raining and wet,…

12 years ago

How and why to do mite-tests in your apiary

Recently I went around to the various Runamuk apiaries to perform my annual mite-tests, and while the 12 colonies under…

13 years ago