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Beekeeping Beginner’s Kit – Starting Your Journey

Beekeeping can be a fun and rewarding hobby, but it can also seem daunting for beginners. This guide will help you get started on the right foot, with advice on the best way to set up your apiary, how to get your bees, and what supplies you’ll need in your beekeeping beginner’s kit. Before you get started, there are a few things you need to know. Choose the Right Location for your Beehive The first step to starting beekeeping is to choose the right location for your hive. The best location for a hive is in an open area with plenty of sunlight and access to ...

Beginning Beekeeping: Easy or Hard?

Beekeeping is not a new activity and has been around for centuries. And just like any other old practice, there are different ways of doing things. So when it comes to beginning beekeeping, is it easy or hard? Well, like most things, that all depends on how you look at it. If you’re just starting out and have never kept bees before, it’s probably going to be a bit of a challenge until you get the hang of things. But once you know what you’re doing, beginning beekeeping can be quite simple and rewarding. So don’t let the challenge scare you away ...

The Langstroth Hive

There are many discussions these days about the best way to approach local beekeeping. Some people advocate for the top-bar hive, while others swear by the Warré hive. But one type of hive always comes up when talking about wholesale bee supplies – the Langstroth hive. Named after its inventor, Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, this type of beehive has been around since 1852 and is still widely used today by local beekeepers. So what makes the Langstroth hive so popular? Let’s take a closer look. What is a Langstroth hive, and why do you need it? Local bee...

The Amazing Langstroth Hive

The Langstroth hive is a type of beehive that is named after its inventor, Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth. It is the most commonly used hive design in modern beekeeping, and it is characterized by its use of removable frames that hold the bees’ honeycombs in place. One advantage of the Langstroth hive is that it allows the beekeeper to easily inspect the hive and perform other hive management tasks, such as adding or removing frames or checking for disease or pests. The frames can be removed and examined without disturbing the bees, making it easier for the beekeepe...

You Too Can Become a Beekeeper

Somewhere, somehow, you’ve had your interest peaked about honeybees and how to become a beekeeper. Maybe you have a local farmers market with a honey vendor. Maybe you see white boxes stacked at the edge of a field while driving to visit your in-laws. You decide to stop just thinking about it and look into it. But, like so many of our well-intended plans, it gets put on the backburner. Months, maybe even a year, pass by and you finally get around to learning more about beekeeping. After only a few minutes of reading online, your head spins with questions. Who does it...

Book Review: The Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition

Overview of “The Backyard Beekeeper” The Quarto Publishing Group released the 4th edition of Kim Flottum’s book, “The Backyard Beekeeper”, in 2018 and it is one of the recent books on the subject I have read. Back in my earliest years of backyard beekeeping, I was fortunate to hear Kim Flottum speak at a GCBA membership meeting, sometime in 2010, I believe. Mr. Flottum is a local beekeeping legend as he lives in the Medina area and has been the editor for Bee Culture magazine for decades. He is considered one of North America’s experts on b...

Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Garden

Honeybees, the most efficient and prolific pollinators, have not been doing so well in nature. Feral hives (wild honeybee hives that exist in nature and are not managed and maintained by a beekeeper) have been dwindling in numbers for decades due to pesticides, fertilizers, reduced natural environment, diseases, and other stressors. Becoming a backyard beekeeper is one way to help strengthen the world’s population of honeybees. But if keeping 60,000+ bees in your backyard is not your thing, then possibly providing a bee friendly and bee healthy environment in your ya...

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