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The Holding Yard Dilemma Holding yards don't have lots of available forage...sometimes none at all. It’s no secret that holding yards are what make almond pollination possible. Holding yards? Unless a...
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Pesticide Causes Massive Bumble Bee Massacre
by Dewey M. Caron In a suburban shopping mall in Wilsonville, OR, south of Portland, a massive loss of bumble bees has been attributed to use of the neonictinoid pesticide Safari. It is an unusual...
View ArticleMiles To Go Program
MILES TO GO – PROGRAM Keeping Them Alive, Getting Them There and Back A two day conference on every aspect of Migratory Beekeeping If you move bees for a living, are going to or are thinking about...
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What Do You Think Of A Grass Tax?
In The Honey Connoisseur, the book that Marina Marchese and I just finished, we examine 34 popular, and in our opinion excellent varietal honeys, along with the plants the initial nectar is gathered...
View ArticleNew Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators
From the EPA: WASHINGTON – In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some...
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Spreading the Good News, and the Honey
A stretch of the flowers- The creek is to the left About 60 yards or so from my house runs one of the many small creeks Ohio seems to have. I live just north of the divide that separates where creeks...
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Honey Tasting in Waterford Ireland!
We are in Waterford Ireland doing a honey tasting and introducing Root candles! Tasting helpers Erin and Katie Peter Mcauley, Katie and Erin ready with the goodies for the candle customers and honey...
View ArticleFive Friends Any City Beekeeper Wants to Have
by Toni Burnham City beekeepers often worry about the resources surrounding our bees. Well, here is another reason to take heart! We live in a 360 degree, 365-day-a-year throng of interesting and...
View ArticleTen Rules- Rule 2 part 1!
Rule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a goal. You can raise your own queens to meet these standards or...
View ArticleTen Rules: Rule 2 Part 2
by Kim Flottum Finishing up on Rule 2 about having Good Genetics, we get to the basics…resistant of the common problems, efficient producers, and well behaved. Resistant…that can be tricky, but almost...
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