Ask a dozen beekeepers what the hardest part of beekeeping is and you will get 13 different answers. But at least a third or more of those answers will be related to lighting a smoker and keeping it lit. Pine… Continue Reading →
A conversation between beekeepers One of the benefits of writing the BeeHacker blog is that I also get to meet interesting people from around the world. I recently started a dialog with Oleg Sadovskij, a Ukrainian beekeeper, a honey exporter,… Continue Reading →
We were recently gifted a hive from a family whose beekeeper son left for college. Having moved hives before, I figured it would be easy. This time I was wrong: Bees bearded up the front and back of the hive… Continue Reading →
I was pleased to hear recently from Jamie Bucklin of Humboldt, California. Instead of the $16 luggage scale that I used in my hive scale, he built his scale with a $70-100 digital industrial hanging scale from American Weigh Scales. … Continue Reading →
It is that time of year when most of the blooms are gone. And with those blooms goes the abundance of food for bees. Being ever ambitious, honey bees are going to find dinner even if it means robbing it… Continue Reading →
In 1951: Average Cost of new house $9.000.00 Average wages per year $3,510.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas 19 cents Average Cost of a new car $1,500.00 Loaf of Bread 16 cents Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. First Color Television… Continue Reading →
Who ever thinks that self-gratification is somehow more rewarding than service to others has never taken 20,000 stinging insects into a 7th grade science class. I recently took my newly built Ulster observation hive (click here for building instructions) with… Continue Reading →
Have you ever read a book, thoroughly enjoyed it, and wondered why everyone didn’t enjoy it as much as you. Reading a book is a mostly creative process – the dry words of printed books are like mallets on the… Continue Reading →
One of the bloggers I admire most is Linda Tilman of Linda’s Bees – not so much because she is a Master Bee Keeper – which she is – but because she is self-confident enough to share her own failures… Continue Reading →
We harvested about 130 lbs of honey two weeks ago. According to my hive scale, hives #1,2, & 3 contributed 58, 38.5, and 36.5 lbs. Not bad considering that #2 was queenless for several weeks this Spring! Check out the… Continue Reading →
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