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Using Beeswax Around the Homestead

By Regina Anneler
Beeswax is a versatile by-product of honey production and a very valuable tool. There are many ways you can begin using beeswax around the homestead.…
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Preparing Bees for Winter: Getting Ready to Get Bees Ready For Winter

By Kim Flottum
This was article supposed to be something about how honey bees and beekeepers deal with winter and it was to appear in late September, just…
Beekeeping

Garden Seeds, Honeybees, You, and Me

By Trendle Ellwood
Every day as we read our newspapers, scan our internet forums, or click through the channels on our television, we witness scenes of a decaying…
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Are Bees for Me?

By Andrew Botham
Bees are interesting.  They just are.  Not to say that I have spent my whole life on my hands and knees over a clover patch…
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Beginning Thoughts on Keeping Bees

By Kim Flottum
There are a lot of good reasons to have a few hives of honey bees around. For garden and orchard crops, honey bees provide the…
Beekeeping

Budget Backyard Bee Box

By Andrew Botham
This is a simple guide for the homesteader who wishes to keep bees for the sheer joy of it without spending the earth on vast…
Beekeeping

Making Mead: A Celebration of Our Unified Past

By John Wilson
Mead: in the western world, the very word conjures images of warriors in leathers drinking from horns or human skulls. Despite this barbarous image, the…
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Are you a Wanna Bee? Build a Solitary-bee House

By Melody Cox
What is it about bees or beekeeping that is so scary?  If honesty prevailed, many would say that they are scared or even terrified of…
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Wintering Bees

By Kim Flottum
  Before you read "Wintering Bees", have you read "Getting Ready to Get Ready For Winter"? ~~~~~~~~ In the northern parts of the U. S.,…
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Bees for Free

By Andrew Botham
  If you are new to, or interested in, beekeeping, you will eventually find yourself posing the question, "Where do I get some bees?"  If…
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Honey Health: Using Honey in Home Remedies, Baking, and Skin Care

By Karyn Sweet
  Dogs may have a challenger when it comes to the “Man's Best Friend" Award.  Honeybees pollinate eighty percent of the fruit, vegetable, and seed…
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Adventures of a Beekeeper’s Wife

By Trendle Ellwood
  “The bee is a symbol of wisdom, for as this tiny insect collects pollen from the flowers, so men may extract wisdom from the…

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