Hobby Beekeeping
By Henry J. Svec
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Turning a 50 acre cash crop farm back to a wildflower bee sanctuary and business. Join me as I explain each week what we are doing and why we are bee "helpers" and not bee keepers. The name change on February 25, 2024, is reflected in the science that for me makes most sense. The goal is to listen to all aspects of beekeeping and to be an open and honest place for everyone to share their experience. The focus for our work and research continues to be on the conversion of the 50 acre farm back to nature and the re-wilding of lands in Nova Scotia. Treatment Free best describes what we are doing. Best to make that clear despite the usual backlash. Bee well.
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Waiting for Swarms
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May 10, 2026 |
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Tractor Thoughts and Planning
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Hive Autopsy
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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95% of the Hives have Died
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Coping with Hive Loss
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Hive Swarm Risk is Launched
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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We Usually don't Know What Killed our Bees
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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I killed My Nova Scotia Bees
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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To Treat or not to Treat?
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Keeping Bees in Ontario and New Brunswick
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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A New Tool to Help with Swarm Prediction
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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If Bees Hate Each Other Why do We Put them Togehter?
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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How would I Start Beekeeping Today
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Hobby Beekeeper could go To Jail for Taking Bees Home
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Hands off Drones
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Green Goop on a Beekeeping Podcast?
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Doing Less in 2026
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Will you Become a Citizen Scientist in 2026?
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Winter Time to do Nothing
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Why do You Keep Bees?
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Deformed Wing Virus Spotted
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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The Placebo Effect of Varroa Treatments
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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AI Update and Bee Lessons
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Yellow Jacket Attack
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Late Fall Hive Updates
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Why I'm Excited to have Finally Lost some Hives
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Some Thoughts on the Year and Next Steps
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Fraud of Nature Based and Treatment Free Beekeeping
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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This Scientist explains why Treatment Free is the Only Way
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Science Says Stop Treating for Mites
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Stupid Beekeeping Researcher Tricks
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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From the Nova Scotia Bee House
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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AI Does Help Orientation Flights and the good of Honey Bound Hives
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Nature Based Beekeeping and Dog Days of August
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Bad Air Swarms and Hive Updates
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Why we Want Relaxed Bees
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Servant Beekeeping Exposed
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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What do I do with the Warre Swarm Hive?
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Hot Days and The Bees are Reducing their Entrance
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Collecting Honey and Dealing with the Heat
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Hives Exploding
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Summer Walk-Away Splits
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Nova Scotia Bee House has Bees
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Taking the Queen on a Walk Away Split
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Time to Leave them Alone
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Swarms Move In
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May 25, 2025 |
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Good and Bad Splits Plus a new Live Question and Answer Tonight
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May 19, 2025 |
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Mice Hive Inspection and Farm Update
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May 12, 2025 |
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The No Look Walk Away Split
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May 05, 2025 |
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6 Steps to Avoid Dumb Stupid Beekeeping
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Is This a Sign of a Strong Hive?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Help them Live or Let Them Die?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Drone Watch
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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These Two Strategies Could Really Help Your Bees
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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2 Frame Nuc's Arrive
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The Final Strategy If I were Starting Today
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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This Natural Pest Could Kill Varroa-Special Podcast
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Splitting and Reduced Hive Entrances
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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93 % Survival So Far and Here's What I think is Happening
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Picking that First Hive and the Goal of Sustainability
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Why Hobby Beekeeping?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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With 80% to 100% of Bees Dead What can we Do?
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Bees are Dying and Two Strategies for Beginning Beekeepers
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Top 10 Beginner Beekeeper Tips
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Will it Take 100 more Years to Save our Bees?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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AI Tool Now Open for Iphone Videos
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Stop Doing This and Increase Your Honey Production
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Last Chance to Sign Up for our AI Tool
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Easy Way to Monitor Hives in the Winter
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Learning from Winter Flights
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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New Year's Honeybee Lessons
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Are We Spoiling our Bees
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Some 55% of hives Lost by October But I'm So Optimistic about 2025
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Should We Stop Feeding Surgar Syrup?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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November and Lots going On
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Fanning Mystery Solved
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Join the Waitlist for our Free AI Tool
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Winter Prep and Some Post Thanksgiving Tid Bits
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Why Count Bees
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Survivor Hive Traits
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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AI Update
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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What a Mess Swarm Hive Robbed
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Why do we see Orientation Flights in late October?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Drone Purge Day
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Is Fall Pollen Necessary for Strong Winter Bees?
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Will You Help Us with this New Free AI Tool?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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New Easy Way to Build Hives and help Them Survive
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Servant Beekeeping Example of 3 Hive Entrances
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Valuable Drones in September
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Stinky Goldenrod and Other Farm News
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Washboarding Explained and Why Honey bound Hives are a Good Thing
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Farm and Nova Scotia Updates
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Weed Police Decision
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Is Splitting and Infrared Treatment Free?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Very Late Season Split
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Farm Summary for July
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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5 Queen Cells on One Frame This Works
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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What Does Pollen Coming in Tell you About Hive Health
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Queen Castle and 2 Frame Nucs
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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July 6 Hive Updates
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Summer Split Experiment
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Survivor Hive Update
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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2 Queens in One Hive?
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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What is Treatment Free Beekeeping
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Russian Queens Have Arrived
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May 27, 2024 |
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Queen Discoveries Part 2
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May 20, 2024 |
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This Could Change Everything
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May 11, 2024 |
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2024 Projects on The Farm
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May 06, 2024 |
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Why Not Russian Bees
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Vaccinated Queens Treatment Free?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Hive and Farm Update
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Beekeeping Censorship
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Turning One Hive into Twelve?
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Make Your Hives Fail
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Hives Did Not Survive
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Hive Beetles and Other Stuff
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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What is Treatment Free Beekeeping?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Name Change Explanation and What do Your Bees have to Eat
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Mite Grooming in February?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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February and 70 Degrees In Canada
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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7th Generation Beekeeping
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Do we Really Need Queen Excluders?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Should you Winter Feed Your Bees?
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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3 Types of Beekeeping
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Transplanting Gut Microbes from Autistic Humans into Honeybees
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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3000 Treatment Free Beekeepers in the UK
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Drone Mystery Solved
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Why Larger Hives may Fail
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Can This Mental Health Model Save the Bees?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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A Simple Strategy to Help Your Bees Survive
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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How Treating Mites could be Killing Your Bees
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Robbers Kill Hives
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Death of Our Video Hive
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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This Vaccine Idea is Nuts
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Stop Opening Your Hives in the Fall
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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If Treating for Mites Hurts Bees Why do we Do It?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Trying to Understand Livestock Beekeeping
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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10 Lessons as a Servant Beekeeper
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Brood Fight Mites
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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One Beehive Year equals 500 Human Years
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Weed Police Threaten Violence
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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3 Signs of a Healthy Hive
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Message to Our Australian Friends fighting Mites
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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This Could Save Your Hive
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Bees Living in an Environmental War Zone
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Maybe It's Not Climate Change That's Hurting our Bees
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Copter Spraying and Weed Police Updates
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Updates and Farm News
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Hive Sounds Tell us So Many Things
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Weed Police Updates and Farm News
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Weed Police Threaten to Destroy our 2 Million Bee Habitat
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Censorship and Politics at Treatment Free Beekeeping
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Farm Updates
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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The Mite Problem has been Solved
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Could Honey Bound Hives be a good thing?
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Forest Fire Smoke Impacting the Bees
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Farm Updates and more Comments on Livestock Beekeeping
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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5 Swarms and Counting
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May 29, 2023 |
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We Beekeepers Are Killing Our Bees
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May 20, 2023 |
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40 Hives and Growing
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May 15, 2023 |
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Making 16 New Hives
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May 07, 2023 |
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Trying to Understand Livestock Beekeeping
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May 01, 2023 |
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Darwinian Black Bee Box Update
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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7 Keys to Watching a Beehive Entrance
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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It's Cold and Wet Outside
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Spring Split Strategy
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Tough To Watch Hive Get Destroyed
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Hives Blowing Up
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Stop the Fake Environmental Stuff
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The COVID Lesson for Mite Treatment
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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To Feed or Not to Feed
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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It's February and the Bees are Flying
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Invest like a Honeybee
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Are we Helping or Hurting our Bees?
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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What if a Worker Laying Eggs is a Good thing?
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Winter Strategies
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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November and the Bees are Flying
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Don't do This if You Love Your Bees
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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We Launch our New Website and Free Services
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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2 New Books I'm Writing and a Hive Update
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Farm Walk around the some Dumb Bees
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Saving Weak Hives
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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What would you do?
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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The Weed Police Are Coming
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Lots of Stuff from the 24 hour Web Cam
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Farm Updates
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May 29, 2022 |
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What did I do with the Aggressive Hive?
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May 12, 2022 |
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What is Killing Our Bees?
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May 01, 2022 |
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Lessons from Failed Hives
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Farm Updates
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Bees are starting to Buzz
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Mid Winter Blues
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A new Farm Sponsor and Ordering some Saskatchewan Bees
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Over 12,000 Children have Access to our Bee Science Club
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Weeds or Wildflowers?
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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The Bees Could be Tricking Us
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Urgency at the Hives
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Reviewing our Healthy Hives
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Bees are Packing Their Bags
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Stop Bothering the Bees
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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How do the Bees stay cool doing this?
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Drones Everywhere
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Frustrating to Watch
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Where are the Queens?
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Surprise We are Darwinian Black Box Beekeepers
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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The Treatment Free Long Game
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Queen Failures
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Too Much Honey and No Room Left
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Swarms are Mysteries
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Only the Strong Survive
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May 30, 2021 |
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Do Natural Beekeepers Tell us the Truth?
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May 22, 2021 |
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Hive Updates and More on the No Look Split
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May 16, 2021 |
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Will Catching a Swarm Harm Your Bees?
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May 08, 2021 |
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Should Bee Keepers Stop Bees from Swarming?
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Hive inside of Tree Report
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Farm Updates and a great Book to Read
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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What is a No Look Split?
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Opening the Robbed Hive Today
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Livestock or Bee Helper
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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To Swarm or Not to Swarm?
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Busy Week in March
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Early Spring Report
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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First Look at Survival Rates
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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It's Cold Out There
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Bees Flying at -5 C
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Propolis Magic on my Finger
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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It's -1C and the Bees are flying?
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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1 Million Dollars to Destroy Pollinator Habitat
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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New Online Class Launched Beginner Beekeeping
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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What Thermal Imaging can teach us about our hives.
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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What do we really know about the bees?
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Hive Winter Temperature
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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Bees Have Brains
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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December and the Bees are Flying
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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COVID and the Bees
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Update on Hive Moisture Crisis
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Hive Humidity Monitor saves a Hive
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Pollen and Nectar in November
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Humidity in the Hives
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Getting Ready to Plant Wildflowers
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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COVID Honeybee Decision Making
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Winter is Coming or is it?
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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October 3 2020 Hive Wildflower planting and Sensor updates
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Summer all Over Again
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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New Virtual Honeybee Classroom Launched
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Time for Moisture Quilts
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Getting Ready for Winter
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Another Queenless Hive
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Are we Helping too Much?
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Hive Updates and Question
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Summer Heating Up
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Bee Helpers or Bee Keepers
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Thursday July 16 2020
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Bees are Swarming
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Getting Ready for the Queens to Arrive
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Learning to Watch the Bees
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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June 13, 2020
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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Heating up At the Farm
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Splitting Hives
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Activity on the Farm as Bees set to Arrive
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May 28, 2020 |
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Planting Clover for the Bees
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May 18, 2020 |
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We are Bee Helpers not Beekeepers
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Mar 08, 2020 |