How To Episodes

Jim has pails of crystalized honey, but only wants enough liquid honey for his oatmeal this morning. How does he get that to work…

Moving boxes full of honey is usually a lot of work. The bees aren’t happy, the boxes are heavy, it’s hot and you have all your g…

Harvesting your honey crop isn’t about keeping bees, in fact, it is hard work. It’s when you start questioning your spring decisi…

Post-harvest time is a good time to look for wax moth in your colonies. Believe it or not, wax moths are around pretty much all o…

How much honey do you leave for the bees this winter? Like lots of things in beekeeping, it depends. Since “all beekeeping is loc…

It’s hot out there and it looks like it isn’t going to cool off for most of us for awhile. Also, since mite treatments should be …

It doesn’t take long after getting into beekeeping and then repeatedly, as long as you have beekeeping equipment laying around or…

Jim’s beeyard is the center of attention this week, because his bees were bothering his wife and a very patient, longtime neighbo…

If a pollinator garden is in your future this summer, constructing a raised bed is one way to keep it under control and is a much…

Package season is about over for 2022. Perhaps thankfully too, depending on where in the country you live. Installing packages do…

Have you ever been involved in planning and carrying out a beekeeping meeting? If not, there are a host of things to consider tha…

If your colonies make it through the winter, or if you simply purchased more bees as a package or nuc, their next challenge is ma…

This time of year, experienced and new beekeepers are receiving their packaged bees and nucs. Only a few of these packages and nu…

In today’s episode, Kim and Jim continue their exploration of Bee Beards… though this time… they go big… really big bee beards yo…

Really? You want to do a bee beard? OK, let’s think this through. How much do you know about bees and bee beards, and why do you …