The Do’s and Don’ts of Harvesting Honey Part 1: Getting most nectar capped Part 2: Four methods of removing honey Part 3: Extracting procedures and tricks Part 4: Cleaning the extracted frames Part 5: Storing drawn comb until next year...

The Do’s and Don’ts of Harvesting Honey Part 1: Getting most nectar capped Part 2: Four methods of removing honey Part 3: Extracting procedures and tricks Part 4: Cleaning the extracted frames Part 5: Storing drawn comb until next year...

Harvesting Honey Just because the weather is warm from April to October over much of the U.S. has NOTHING to do with WHAT plants make a nectar yield in your part of the country. In central Maryland, basically there is...

It has long been known that successful beekeeping is a combination of an ART and SCIENCE. There was precious little scientific knowledge about a honey bee until the last 100 years, and more particularly the past 20 years when bee...

The “Show is Over” – What’s Next? In our central Maryland area, my scale hive stopped showing any increase in weight right on time, May 31st. It lost 7 pounds during the next 21 days, and now the dearth of...

SPRING IS NEAR Are your bees ready? Are YOU ready? For many years, I have taught that success in beekeeping is a result of both bees and beekeeper being READY at the beginning of our major nectar flow, which in...

Short Course 2004 It has long been known that successful beekeeping is a combination of an ART and SCIENCE. There was precious little scientific knowledge about a honey bee until the last 100 years, and more particularly the past 20...

Are Your Bees Alive? I have lived in Montgomery County over 80 years and kept bees here for 71 of those years; and I am an “old retiree scientist” that “notes” things that perhaps many people ignore. I have seen...