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Sugar Candy Board Assessment For Feeding Bees In Winter Buy a candy board frame here!!! I have been getting a lot of questions and compliments on the post I wrote last year about how to make a no cook candy board for bees. Therefore I would also like to share […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mass Bee Field Day 2012 Every June the Mass Bee Association has a field day at the UMass Agronomy field. It is a gathering of local beekeeping experts who share their knowledge for free. There is so much to learn, a smoker contest and raffles, plus it’s always fun meeting […]
My New Wax Purifier And Hot Box Several weeks ago Essex County Beekeepers Association held a workshop called building a Hot Box and Wax Purifier / Cleaner. One of the members of our club came up with the design and Brian went to the workshop to build it. When he […]