Honey Processing & Honey Packaging Tips Learning how to bottle honey is a sweet job for every new beekeeper. It’s one beekeeping chore that we always love doing. The beekeeper and the bees have worked hard all season. Our next step is honey processing. It’s time to get that honey packaged and ready to use […]
Bringing in the Honey Harvest
Enjoy Your First Honey Harvest Did you begin beekeeping in order to produce your own honey? If so and its time for your honey harvest, you may be a bit nervous. Harvesting your honey is rather easy to do with proper preparation. Well the moment has finally arrived, it’s time to learn how to collect […]
5 Easy Tips For Harvesting Honey From A Beehive
Harvesting Honey From Your Bees Do you have a dream of harvesting honey from your own bees? Many people do. In fact, it is the most popular reason for getting involved in beekeeping. Of course, not everyone keeps bees in order to produce a honey harvest. Some folks keep bees for pollination or just fun. […]
Queen Excluder: Should You or Shouldn’t You Use One
The Controversial Queen Excluder Beekeeping is a hobby full of many different kinds of interesting equipment. All pieces of equipment are not used by every beekeeper. Queen excluders are the subject of controversy among many beekeepers. Should you use a queen excluder on your beehive? This is a question that many new beekeepers ask themselves. And […]
Nectar Dearth – Trouble for Honey Bees
The Nectar Dearth – What it Means to Honey Bees I enjoy seeing honey bees flying through the air on warm Spring mornings looking for food. Nectar and pollen collected from the new flowers is necessary for colony growth. The bees work diligently to make honey and raise young bees. But this time of plenty […]