Top Bar Hives With Les Crowder At the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference, Les Crowder gave a talk on top bar hives. Les has been keeping bees for over 30 years. He used to work in commercial beekeeping using Langstroth hives before switching to the top bars he uses now. He […]
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Queen Rearing With Dean Stiglitz
Queen Rearing With Dean Stiglitz Dean Stiglitz from Golden Rule Honey gave a few talks at the treatment free conference about queen rearing. Dean is the coauthor of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping. During field day Dean let everyone try their hand at grafting a queen using the Chinese […]
Field Day, Virgin Queens And More At The Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference
Field Day, Virgin Queens And More At The Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference Field Day at the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference was really fun. Dean Stiglitz gave a talk on queen rearing and we even got to graft some queens, Sam Comfort taught people how to make a skep, Dr. Paul […]
Making A Package Of Bees From A Top Bar Hive With Sam Comfort
Making A Package Of Bees From A Top Bar Hive With Sam Comfort At the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference last month, Sam Comfort demonstrated how to make a package of bees from a top bar hive. For his funnel he used 4 pieces of cardboard taped together and attached it […]
Michael Bush At The Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference
Michael Bush At The Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference At the Beginner’s Intensive segment of the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference Michael Bush gave a talk. Micheal has a wonderful website where he posts all of his PowerPoint presentations. If you have not seen them before they are really worth taking a […]
Microbes & Bees Plus How To Light A Smoker & Other Hive Inspection Tips
Microbes & Bees At the Beginners Intensive segment of the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference Laurie Herboldsheimer of Golden Rule Honey talked about her intense passion for the importance of the microbes that live in the honeybee colony. She has done extensive research, reading, writing and presenting about the subject and […]