The Voices of Bee Culture
SEPTEMBER 22-24, MEDINA, OH COME HEAR THE VOICES OF BEE CULTURE SPEAKING THE WAY THEY WRITE Visit our site at https://www.beeculture.com/
View ArticleBackyards and Bees
By: Eugene Makovec Four years ago I moved bees from Kirkwood, Missouri – the heart of the St. Louis suburbs – to my new home in rural Lincoln County. Bee and cucumber beetle on ironweed. I live in a...
View ArticleZika and Bee Kills
By: Tom Rearick Bee kills from pesticide treatments are not new. What is new is a rational fear of the Zika virus and the rapid growth in commercial mosquito abatement franchises that feed on that...
View ArticleConverting Customers To Cremed or Granulated Honey
By: Howard Scott Make more money. Work less. In the market shelf these days, I see more and more cremed and crystallized honey. There is Really Raw Honey, the Baltimore, MD packer that only sells...
View ArticleHistory of the Muth Bottle, Part 1
By: Jim Thompson The first jar invented specifically for honey. I collect old honey jars and when I heard that the Muth Jar was the first jar to have been specifically made for honey, I had to check...
View ArticleHoney Bees, Antibiotics and Gut Microbia
By: Rebecca Novak Tibbitt The role of antibiotics is both good, and bad in honey bee microbia. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, led by postdoctoral researcher Kasie Raymann, PhD, and...
View ArticleNOD Apiary Products’ Story Of Innovation: The Challenge
Part 2, Developing An Environmentally Friendly Miticide By: David VanderDussen and Kathleen Ireland In Part 1 of this series we discussed the role of NOD’s biochemistry laboratory in the development of...
View ArticleIt’s Summers Time!
CHICKENS, MOWING, JUST BEING OUTSIDE. Kim, Jake and Jessica getting the garden in. I hope you are all having a wonderful, sunny, warm – but not too warm – Summer. We took a couple of extra days off...
View ArticleThe Inner Cover
Kim Flottum We have a garden every year. I know a lot of people that have bees have gardens. They sort of go hand in hand. You have a garden and it needs bees. It’s pretty simple. I think we’ve only...
View ArticleAugust Honey Market Report
What’s Important In Selling Honey. We surveyed our reporters again this month to find out what principles and what items were important to their honey sales strategies. Price is always important, but...
View ArticleDOWNTOWN Keeping Bees Where The Poop Hits The Fan
A Bunch Of Other Machinery, Too. Find me online!www.twitter.com/tonibeewww.citybees.blogshop.com I recently told a reporter (who wasn’t there for me) that this should be her headline: Largest Sewage...
View ArticleHerbs & Veggies & Flowers, Oh My!
By: Janet Davis Some For You, Some For the Bees. Herbs have been grown for honey bee forage for millennia, ever since ancient Greeks and Romans learned the fine art of beekeeping. In Book IV of the...
View ArticleKeeping Bees in the Kingdom of the West
By: Melanie Kirby Morocco’s Beekeeping Is Similar To Our’s, But Their Culture Is So Different. I’ve never been to this part of the world. And I had no idea what it would be like. I thought to myself,...
View ArticleHistory of the British National Honey Show
The National Honey Show grew from origins in 1921 of a joint honey show held by two county associations in south east England, Kent and Surrey. It was first held at the famous Crystal Palace. By 1932...
View ArticleKiller Bee Honey
By: Abu Bakr Ladd African Bees Make Honey From Magic Trees. “And thy Lord has inspired the bee saying, ‘Make thou houses in the hills and in the trees and in the trellises which they build.’ ‘Then eat...
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