Top Vents or Not? My Condensing Hive Disaster
Top Vents or Not? My Condensing Hive Disaster I keep no more than 8 hives and in my area there’s plenty of natural foraging for them spring-to-fall, so I don’t do any supplemental sugar-feeding. This winter I ran an experiment that failed – I had a single peaked roof hive set up as a currently trendy […]
Spring – Feeding Bees their own honey. true 4:28 Now playing Watch later Add to queue 4 Horizontal Hives Survived — 2 Didn’t. Beekeeper Mistake.
Early Spring: Feeding Bees Their Own Honey After a long, brutally cold winter, the first warm spell can’t come soon enough—for my bees and me. The bees are flying. Most of my bees have made it through the winter — without treatments and without supplemental sugar feeding. During this first warm spell there is still […]
Honey Lasts Forever?! Pyramids, Bees & a 3,000-Year Myth: What Was REALLY in that Jar? Myth Busted!
Honey Lasts Forever?! Pyramids, Bees & a 3,000-Year Myth: What Was REALLY in that Jar? Myth Busted! You’ve probably heard the claim: Honey never spoils — archaeologists even found jars of honey in Egyptian tombs and it was still edible!’ This story is repeated everywhere… even by the Smithsonian. This claim was even […]
Is your Honey Alive with Enzymes or Dead?
Honey Lasts Forever?! Pyramids, Bees & a 3,000-Year Myth: What Was REALLY in that Jar? Myth Busted! You’ve probably heard the claim: Honey never spoils — archaeologists even found jars of honey in Egyptian tombs and it was still edible!’ This story is repeated everywhere… even by the Smithsonian. This claim was even […]