POSTED AUG 23, 2020LENGTH 1:17:54 EPISODE LINK – CLICK / TAP TO LISTEN Episode #179 – Serenity Now SYNOPSIS: Monitor and Treat – time is waning, Cleaning your bee suit, Bees Knees Cocktail Campaign, HiveGuard – Thymol based entrance miticide device by Raina Jain, Hive Tool Holster Requirements, The benefit of fresh honeycomb, Local Hive…
POSTED JUL 28, 2020LENGTH 1:38:19 EPISODE LINK – CLICK / TAP TO LISTEN Episode #178 – Full Reverse SYNOPSIS: Filtering wax, essential beekeepers, Covid waiters, Joshua Tree Bees, Unwanted seeds, Body Odor, Honey Sponsorship in Nascar, Honey Moisture, Nicot vs Knockoff, Local Hive Report EPISODE GUIDE Agenda 00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music –…
For years I have harbored a notion to capture the process for processing honey. Interestingly enough, it took so many years for the method we currently use to evolve and stabilize and it feels like what we do now is a pretty reasonable and repeatable approach. I have seen beekeepers who do everything from crush…
POSTED JUL 12, 2020LENGTH 1:42:35 EPISODE LINK – CLICK / TAP TO LISTEN Episode #177 – Allowed SYNOPSIS: Local Hive Report, Harvesting Honey, Nicot, Queen Rearing, Time Management, backups, Beekeeping Videos EPISODE GUIDE Agenda 00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News 00:23 – 04:18 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming…
It’s Alive I love the concepts of all things Honey and while harvesting honey this year I started to think through some of the things we might do with this years harvest. Our son Danny recently introduced us to the Bon Appétit Cooking Channel on YouTube and in it there is a instruction video by chef…
POSTED JUN 21, 2020LENGTH 1:52:15 EPISODE LINK – CLICK / TAP TO LISTEN Episode #176 – Episode Title SYNOPSIS: Local Hive Report, Drone Laying Queen – Laying Workers, Fermented Honey Garlic, Fermented Honey Garlic, COVID and Bee Venom, Beekeeping Videos EPISODE GUIDE Agenda 00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News…
In Episode 175 I spoke of having to dispatch (kill) one of my colonies. I performed this disdainful task based on several inspections and considerations. In the end it was the risk to people in our vicinity that expedited the action and negated my decision to take alternative routes. Some watch the video and have…
POSTED MAY 31, 2020LENGTH 0:56:16 EPISODE LINK – CLICK / TAP TO LISTEN Episode #175 – Intervention SYNOPSIS: Taking you through the journey of managing a dangerous hive. I had to euthanize one of my hives. It pains me to do it, and it was the first time I had to take this course of…
Finally graduated from my Layens Nuc to a full size hive. This video shows the process of moving the frames from the Nuc to the full-sized hive. Background on the Nuc I purchased the Nuc from Leo Sharashkin after a beekeeper meeting in Philladelphia. I did not have any bees to install into the Nuc…
