If you want to know how to start a beehive in your backyard, then you’ve come to the right place. This guide will help you get started without any fluff or hassles. Before diving in, here’s an overview on beekeeping in general. Overview of Modern Day Beekeeping Bees have been around for a long time. Beekeeping … Read more
Last Updated: There’s no doubt about it- the world needs bees. In fact, bees’ pollination helps more than 30% of the world’s crops and 90% of wild vegetation to thrive. In short, without bees, humans wouldn’t have many things to eat. And with bees dying at an alarming rate over the past few years, just take a look … Read more
Last Updated: Making honey is a natural process so it isn’t surprising that it is guided by the change of the seasons. Whether you practice beekeeping as a business or a hobby, there are certainly lots of factors that you need to take into account. Beekeeping in winter is one of these factors. During … Read more
Last Updated: Beekeeping is nothing more than keeping a colony of bees in a hive and harvesting the honey that they produce. Sounds simple right? Well, not really… Honey bees are not (and cannot be) domesticated so you need to know a lot about how a colony how to start a beehive, manage it … Read more
Last Updated: Ever heard of the phrase “Busy as a Bee”? I imagine so, well this is derived from the concept and hard-working nature of the honey bee. We live in a society where people often take for granted commodities such as honey, without actually knowing how it is made, or how a beehive … Read more
Last Updated: Just like the mosquito in Jurassic Park, the earliest recorded honeybee was also found encased in amber. It was found in Myanmar and has been dated as being over 100 million years old. Today there are approximately 20,000 species of bee. Despite popular belief, most bees live in solitary existence. For example, bumblebees … Read more
When you’re getting started with beekeeping, choosing a source for your bees is one decision that you will have to make at some point – you can buy or gather bees from the wild. Attracting bees to a hive as a swarm is one option that is not so frequently chosen because most beekeepers don’t … Read more
There are numerous benefits to keeping bees at home no matter where you live. But, what do you do about beehive placement? After all, where you set up your bee hive is essential to its success. There are three main factors you have to consider when trying to decide where you should be setting up … Read more
We all know that bees are important to our environment. Bees pollinate 80% of our crops and perform $15 billion in ecological services in the United States alone. However, In only one quarter of 2018, we lost 16% of honeybee colonies. This fact and similar statistics are a major cause for concern. If you want to help pollinators and slow … Read more
Last Updated: So you’re looking at where to buy a beehive from; Well, let me first congratulate you on taking your first steps to become a beekeeper. Beekeeping is such a wonderful hobby, and for most people who start beekeeping as a hobby, it soon turns into a strong passion and even a huge lifestyle change. … Read more