Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method

Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method When a bee colony fails to raise a queen after a split, laying workers can take over—and that usually means trouble. In this short, I share how I rescued a queen-less hive full of laying workers using the old “dump and switch” method. ✅ This approach saved […]

Wintering USDA Russian bees in Maine

Wintering Russian Bees in Maine In this video you’ll see how I help my USDA Russian bees overwinter in Maine. In neighboring Vermont, Kirk Webster, a long-time commercial treatment-free beekeeper also keeps Russian bees for the last 20 years. Kirk Webster says that the Russian Bees are still “the best primary source of breeding stock […]

Natural Beekeeping vs. Organic Beekeeping vs. Treatment-free Beekeeping

Natural Beekeeping vs Organic Beekeeping vs Treatment-Free Beekeeping Natural Beekeeping IS NOT a carbon copy of how bees live in the wild.  While nature can be randomly unforgiving (e.g. 75% of all feral swarms will not survive) , natural beekeepers can mitigate many risks and assure much better survival odds.  Natural Beekeeping IS, in short,  just […]