Flow Hive Reviewed: Who It Suits and Who It Frustrates
No product in beekeeping splits a room faster. Show a Flow Hive video to someone who has never kept bees …
Bee Suit or Jacket: Which One You Actually Wear
Ask a room of backyard beekeepers what they wear and you will get a split answer. Almost everyone owns a …
Beehive Winter Wrap: Tar Paper, Foam or Nothing
Wrapping hives splits a beekeeping club neatly in half. One group has wrapped every colony in black felt since the …
Bee Vacuum for Removals: Suction That Does Not Kill
Sooner or later a backyard beekeeper gets the phone call. A swarm has settled twenty feet up a maple, or …
Beekeeping Books Worth the Shelf Space
Beekeeping is one of the few hobbies where books still beat the internet for the parts that matter. Not because …
Counting Varroa Mites: Alcohol Wash or Sugar Roll
Most backyard colonies that die over winter were carrying a mite load their keeper never measured. Not ignored, not misjudged, …
Honey Harvesting Equipment: The Full Kit in Order
Harvest day goes wrong in a predictable order. The bees will not leave the super, the knife is not hot, …
Beehive Types Compared: Langstroth, Top Bar, Warre
Almost every new beekeeper hits the same fork within a week of getting interested. There is the standard stack of …
Bee Suit Sizing: Order Up or Order Your Size
Bee suit sizing generates more returns than any other beekeeping purchase, and it is not because the charts are wrong. …
Winter Feeding: Candy Board, Fondant or Dry Sugar
There is a particular feeling that comes with hefting the back of a hive in January and finding it light. …
Bee Smoker Fuel: What Burns Cool and Long
Ask ten beekeepers what they burn and you will get ten answers, half of them free and half of them …
Beeswax Candles From Your Own Cappings
The cappings from one good harvest make a surprising number of candles, and they are the single most persuasive thing …