What’s the Buzz With Beekeeping?
For all the beekeepers and future beekeepers out there, this one is for you.
The benefits of bees are numerous: honey, beeswax and let’s not forget pollination. Raising honey bees increases pollination of flowering plants and honey bees are the heroes of pollination efforts for modern agriculture.
Anyone can master the skills necessary to be a good beekeeper. Your journey to successful beekeeping begins with preparation. We’ve compiled some of our favorite bee articles to help you get started with your bee colony, no matter where you live!
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The Buzz: Beekeeping for Beginners
Beekeeping has been on the rise in recent years, and Ross Conrad’s book Natural Beekeeping has become a must read for enterprising apiculturalists who want to learn how to care for bees holistically and organically.
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How to Create the Perfect Bee Hive
For all the beekeepers and future beekeepers out there, this one is for you! Your journey to successful beekeeping begins with constructing a suitable haven for honeybees, otherwise known as the bee hive.
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Urban Apiculture: Raise Bees in Your Apartment
Learn how to raise bees in your own apartment, no matter where you live!
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Biodynamic Beekeeping 101
Spring is here and I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get started on all of the projects I mapped out during the cold winter months – including trying my hand at incorporating bees into my homesteading adventure! As a new-bee (get it?!), I need help to get started so I did a little rummaging through the CGP archives and stumbled upon some great insight from Deirdre Heekin. Happy beekeeping, ya’ll!
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On Swarms and Stings
On Swarms and StingsTo a beekeeper, thousands of bees concentrated in one area isn’t a nightmare–it’s an opportunity to help the bees find a new home safely when necessary. However, not all beekeepers began their career being fans of bees. It takes a lot of time and patience to gather up the nerve to walk directly into a swarm and handle relocating these buzzing insects.
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Top-Bar Beekeeping: A List of Pros and Cons
In recent years beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges, from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites and from the mysterious but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully, even without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs. More and more organically minded beekeepers are now using top-bar hives, in which the shape of the interior resembles a hollow log.
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VIDEO: Beekeeping Methods: How to Manage Bees Naturally with Top-Bar Hive System
VIDEO: Beekeeping Methods: How to Manage Bees Naturally with Top-Bar Hive SystemTop-Bar Beekeeping author Les Crowder gives a hands-on workshop in the field, focusing on how to manage bees naturally using the innovative top-bar hive system.
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VIDEO: Natural Beekeeper’s Approach to Modern Apiculture
VIDEO: Natural Beekeeper’s Approach to Modern ApicultureRoss Conrad, author of Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, shares his practices for natural beekeeping.
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VIDEO: Natural Beekeeping: How to Check a Beehive
VIDEO: Natural Beekeeping: How to Check a BeehiveNoted Vermont beekeeper Ross Conrad demonstrates how to check on your beehive and what you’ll find inside.
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