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Beekeeping has evolved significantly over the years, and few innovations have sparked as much conversation as the Flow Hive. In this episode, Jeff and Becky welcome back Flow Hive co-founder, Cedar Anderson, who shares exciting updates on their latest innovation—the Superlifter. Designed to make hive inspections easier and more accessible for beekeepers of all experience levels, the Superlifter allows for effortless lifting of heavy honey supers, reducing strain on beekeepers' backs and improving hive management. Cedar shares the journey behind this invention, including years of prototyping and refining the design. With a simple, easy-to-use system, the Superlifter works with any Langstroth hive—making it a game-changer for beekeepers who struggle with heavy lifting. Jeff and Becky discuss how this tool could revolutionize hive inspections, especially for beekeepers with physical limitations. Beyond product development, Cedar dives into Flow Hive's commitment to education and sustainability, including the Billions of Blossoms initiative, which has already resulted in the planting of over 1.5 million trees to restore pollinator habitats. The team at Flow Hive continues to expand its educational offerings through TheBeekeeper.org, helping both new and experienced beekeepers improve their skills. Join us for this insightful conversation about the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and making beekeeping more accessible to all. Whether you use a Flow Hive or a traditional Langstroth setup, this episode offers valuable insights into how technology and creative problem-solving can enhance your beekeeping experience. Websites we recommend: FlowHive Website: https://www.honeyflow.com/ Billions of Blossoms Initiative: https://honeyflow.com/pages/billions-of-blossoms Online Beekeeping Courses: https://beekeeper.org   Honey Bee Health Coalition: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org The National Honey Board: https://honey.com Honey Bee Obscura Podcast: https://honeybeeobscura.com 2 Million Blossoms - The Podcast: https://2millionblossoms.com Copyright © 2025 by Growing Planet Media, LLC     ______________ Betterbee is the presenting sponsor of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global offers a variety of standard and custom patties. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  Thanks to Bee Smart Designs as a sponsor of this podcast! Bee Smart Designs is the creator of innovative, modular and interchangeable hive systems made in the USA using recycled and American sourced materials. Bee Smart Designs - Simply better beekeeping for the modern beekeeper.   Thanks to Dalan who is dedicated to providing transformative animal health solutions to support a more sustainable future. Dalan's vaccination against American Foulbrood (AFB) is a game changer. Vaccinated queens protect newly hatched honeybee larvae against AFB using the new Dalan vaccine. Created for queen producers and other beekeepers wanting to produce AFB free queens.  Retailers offering vaccinated queens and packages:  https://dalan.com/order-vaccinated-queens/   More information on the vaccine: https://dalan.com/media-publications/   Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about their line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their support. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Faraday by BeGun; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; A Fresh New Start by Pete Morse; Wedding Day by Boomer; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; Red Jack Blues by Daniel Hart; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott. Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC Copyright © 2025 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

Transcript Address: https://share.descript.com/view/YTDg5GkHmrF Beekeeping: From Ancient History to Modern PracticeIn this special episode, Steve Guerra presents a comprehensive history and background on beekeeping, starting with the earliest known apiaries and moving to modern practices. He discusses the evolution of the honeybee, references to honey in ancient texts, and provides insights into the daily life of a beekeeper. We discuss the development of the Langstroth hive and the essential role honeybees play in pollination and agriculture. Key issues such as colony collapse disorder and the impact of pests like the Varroa destructor mite are also addressed. Steve shares his journey from a novice to a successful beekeeper operating Guerra Bees in Texas, highlighting the importance of bees in global food production.00:15 History of Beekeeping: From Ancient Times to Modern Day01:29 Modern Beekeeping Practices and Equipment02:22 Personal Journey into Beekeeping04:42 Evolution and Biology of Honeybees08:59 Ancient Beekeeping: The Tel Rehov Apiary15:58 Honey in Historical and Cultural Contexts25:04 The Life Cycle and Roles of Honeybees42:36 Modern Beekeeping Challenges and Solutions47:49 Sponsor a hive! #savethebees #bees #pollinators #bee You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places:https://atozhistorypage.start.pageTo Subscribe: https://www.spreaker.com/show/history-of-the-papacy-podcast_1Email Us: steve@atozhistorypage.comSupport Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network: parthenonpodcast.comThe History of the Papacy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@atozhistoryHelp out the show by ordering these books from Amazon!https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1MUPNYEU65NTFMusic Provided by:"Sonatina in C Minor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Crusade Heavy Perfect Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Podcast: Ongoing Autumn checks are continuing to reveal, for the most part, some very healthy colonies that are well provisioned for the cold weeks that lay ahead, hefting confirms some weighty Langstroth brood boxes. It's why I like them. I did however discover one colony that had failed and today I want to talk through how you too can spot the signs and prevent disease from swamping your apiaries.Hi, I'm Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 322 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.Contact Me at The Norfolk Honey CompanyJoin Our Beekeeping Community in the following ways:Early Release & Additional Video and Podcast Content - Access HereStewart's Beekeeping Basics Facebook Private Group - Click HereTwitter - @NorfolkHoneyCo - Check Out Our FeedInstagram - @norfolkhoneyco - View Our Great PhotographsSign Up for my email updates by visiting my website hereSupport the show

In this week's Podcast: Another crazy week of beekeeping, More swarms, Stings through my bee suit veil and some thoughts on why I have finally settled on the Langstroth hive as my preferred box for our bees.Hi, I'm Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 301 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.Get your copy of Steve & Paul's new book by clicking the link below.Healthy Bees, Heavy Hives by Steve Donohoe and Paul HortonISBN: 978-1-914934-67-4Contact Me at The Norfolk Honey CompanyJoin Our Beekeeping Community in the following ways:Early Release & Additional Video and Podcast Content - Access HereStewart's Beekeeping Basics Facebook Private Group - Click HereTwitter - @NorfolkHoneyCo - Check Out Our FeedInstagram - @norfolkhoneyco - View Our Great PhotographsSign Up for my email updates by visiting my website hereSupport the Show.

In this enlightening episode, Jim takes listeners on a historical journey through the evolution of beekeeping hives. Delving into the storied past of traditional box hives, Jim reflects on a unique box hive he acquired, which was originally built in 1853—the same year L.L. Langstroth revolutionized beekeeping with his patented removable frame hive. This episode not only explores the construction and historical significance of traditional box hives but also juxtaposes them with the transformative hanging frame designs that followed. Jim discusses how these simple, yet effective hives played a crucial role in the beekeeping landscape of the past and ponders why such methods were gradually phased out despite their effectiveness. Rich with anecdotes and a deep appreciation for beekeeping heritage, this episode is a must-listen for those interested in the roots and evolutionary paths of their craft. Listen today! ______________________ This episode is brought to you by the support of Bee Culture Magazine: The magazine of American Beekeeping since 1873!  Each month, Bee Culture delivers the best information in an easy to read magazine, full of content from beekeepers, researchers and regular contributors, including Jim Tew and Beekeeping Today Podcast's, Becky Masterman! Subscribe today at: https://beeculture.com ______________________ Thanks to Betterbee for sponsoring today's episode. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com ______________________ Honey Bee Obscura is brought to you by Growing Planet Media, LLC, the home of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Music: Heart & Soul by Gyom, All We Know by Midway Music; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; original guitar music by Jeffrey Ott Cartoons by: John Martin (Beezwax Comics) Copyright © 2024 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

Welcome to this week's episode where we've woven together a rich tapestry of stories and expertise to enrich your winter days and nights with the fascinating world of bees. Ed Colby: High-Altitude Beekeeping Tales We start with our regular contributor, Ed Colby, a seasoned beekeeper from Colorado's Western Slopes. Ed's bees thrive in the high altitudes of Aspen, Glenwood Springs, and surrounding mountain towns. A familiar voice in the beekeeping community, Ed is well-known for his column “The Bottom Board” in Bee Culture magazine. In this episode, he shares a heartwarming story of spreading holiday cheer and honey in the ski town of Aspen. Join us as Ed brings his unique perspective as a Regional Beekeeper, along with excerpts from his book, “A Beekeeper's Life: Tales From The Bottom Board”.     Anandamayi Baker: Empowering Young Minds with "Bee-Coming Strong” Next, we delve into the imaginative world of Anandamayi Baker's latest children's book, “Bee-Coming Strong”. Aimed at 6-10 year-olds, this enchanting tale follows Jazianzza, a bee who learns to navigate life's hurdles with bravery and benevolence. Anandamayi's storytelling not only captivates young readers but also imparts valuable lessons about overcoming prejudice and fear. Discover how this book can be a delightful addition to your family's reading list. Jonna Sanders: Navigating the Winters with AŽ Hives Rounding off our episode, we welcome back AŽ hive specialist Jonna Sanders to address a listener query from Trevor L. in British Columbia. Jonna, who last joined us in October 2021, revisits the unique characteristics of the Slovenian AŽ hive compared to the Langstroth hive. She'll delve into key management strategies for winter and respond to Trevor's question about feeding AŽ colonies during the colder months. Wrap yourself in this episode's "Winter Quilt of Guests" and join us for an enlightening journey into the world of beekeeping. Your winter days are about to get a whole lot warmer with these fascinating stories and insights! Leave comments and questions in the Comments Section of the episode's website. Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Ed Colby, A Beekeeper's Life. Tales from the Bottom Board - https://www.amazon.com/Beekeepers-Life-Tales-Bottom-Board/dp/1912271885 Anandamayi Baker - https://anandamayibaker.com/ Bee-Coming Strong Book on Amazon -  https://www.amazon.com/Bee-Coming-Strong-Anandamayi-Baker/dp/B0CMZBPZ35 Martin Dohrn Documentary on PBS, My Garden of a Thousand Bees - https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-garden-thousand-bees-about/26263/ Jonna Saunders - AŽ Hives North America - https://azhivesnorthamerica.com   Honey Bee Obscura - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com   ______________ Betterbee is the presensting sponsor of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global offers a variety of standard and custom patties. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their support. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; A Fresh New Start by Pete Morse; Wedding Day by Boomer; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC Copyright © 2023 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

Beekeeping is not always as straightforward as hive inspections and honey extraction. When bees decide to set up shop in places beyond the traditional hive box, it requires specialized techniques and knowledge to safely and ethically relocate them. When beekeepers set up plain boxes (not the standard Langstroth hive with moveable frames) then move them to a standard hive, it is often called a 'transfer'. When honey bees are removed from a structure, such as the wall of a house, it is called a 'cutout'. In today's episode, Jim talks about how transfers are not that common these days, and how cutouts are. These are specialized activities that require more than beekeeping skills. Listen today as Jim tackles the topic of Transfers and Cutouts. ______________________ Thanks to Betterbee for sponsoring today's episode. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com ______________________ Honey Bee Obscura is brought to you by Growing Planet Media, LLC, the home of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Music: Heart & Soul by Gyom, All We Know by Midway Music, original guitar music by Jeffrey Ott Cartoons by: John Martin (Beezwax Comics) Copyright © 2023 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

While Jeff and Kim are taking time this week to tend their bees, we bring you this Archive Special from May of 2021. In this third installment of our five-part Hive Types Series, we talk with Colorado Master Beekeeper and columnist Tina Sebestyen about the Long or Horizontal Langstroth. Horizontal hives are very much like the traditional Langstroth hives, which are vertical stacks of boxes, except horizontal hives are only one box high and about three boxes long. The very best thing about horizontal hives is that you never have to lift a very heavy box off the top of a hive to get to what's below that box. Essentially, no lifting for the beekeeper. Horizontal hives, using 30 frames, can have the front door on either or both ends, or in the middle. If there is just one opening, it should be on the end, so the bees build their nest a frame or two of honey right next to the entrance, behind that some of the bee bread, then the brood next, and at the end away from the front door will be the honey. Not up, but back. Tina explains there are additional advantages for the beekeeper and these are why long hives are so appealing to many beekeepers, including the accessable hive of choice for beekeepers with limited mobility or in wheelchairs. Tina has written several articles on horizontal hive keeping for Bee Culture magazine (starting with the February 2020 issue), has loads of info on her web page and is in the process of writing a book on the topic. She shares it all in this podcast. Listen today! We hope you enjoy the episode. Leave comments and questions in the Comments Section of the episode's website. Thank you for listening! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Tina's Website - https://beequest.buzz/ Follow Tina on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bee.longing/   Honey Bee Obscura - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ Betterbee is the presensting sponsor of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global offers a variety of standard and custom patties. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their support. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; A Fresh New Start by Pete Morse; Wedding Day by Boomer; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC Copyright © 2023 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

What's changed in the past 150 years or so? For some of us who have been around awhile, it seems like a lot. Most honey is still produced in the boxes Langstroth put together. Size and shape maybe different now, but it is all still, moveable frames in a box. Hive tools, smokers, veils and the rest of our tools remain nearly unchanged. Now designs, new material to make them with, but basically the same. Who keeps bees now as to then? It used to be a man's world, but the population of who is keeping bees is nearly even. The electronic gizmos we use now would have been considered science fiction 100 years ago. Listen in while Kim and Jim talk about the evolution of beekeeping, and who's keeping bees. Where are you in the evolution? ______________________ Thanks to Betterbee for sponsoring today's episode. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com ______________________ Honey Bee Obscura is brought to you by Growing Planet Media, LLC, the home of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Music: Heart & Soul by Gyom, All We Know by Midway Music, original guitar music by Jeffrey Ott Copyright © 2023 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

En esta ocasión tuvimos la oportunidad de charlar con Gail Langstroth acerca de la hermosa práctica de la euritmia y el efecto de las palabras en nuestra vida, Gail nos recuerda lo bello que es aprender cualquier disciplina y hacerla propia para que una vez impregnada con nuestra esencia cobre vida y toque corazones. Gail nació en Oklahoma y fue criada bajo The Big Sky Country of Montana, Langstroth tiene un B.A bachellor arts maestría y doctorado. Connecticut College, M.F.A. en poesía Drew University, y un título como profesora e intérprete de euritmia de Else Klink, Das Eurythmeum, Stuttgart, Alemania. Langstroth es una poeta galardonada con publicaciones en revistas literarias europeas y americanas. Actualmente reside en Pittsburgh donde es mentora y miembro activa de los talleres de poesía Madwomen in the Attic y movement specialist para The Lemington Gospel Chorale.Esperando como siempre que te sea de utilidad. https://www.tonali.de/termine/steelwo... https://www.tonali.de/termine/before-...

Tonight, let's relax with more from the fascinating world of bees and learn all about murderous queens, busy workers, growing larvae, and lazy drones. It's all sweet honey for your sleepy mind.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read “The Hive and the Honey-Bee” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24583   Music: "earth 2 earth,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

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In this episode, we dive into what it takes to measure bee space, a brief history of Reverand Langstroth and his business failures, why the Langstroth Hives we use aren't actually Langstroth Hives, and some basics of why the Langstroth hives are so common and some of their shortfalls.   To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For more information and updates, visit www.poorproles.com and subscribe to our e-mail list. For the supplemental reader that goes along with the podcast, visit poorprolesalmanac.substack.com      Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-secret-to-the-modern-beehive-is-a-one-centimeter-air-gap-4427011/ 1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337126549_Honey_bee_microbiome_associated_with_different_hive_and_sample_types_over_a_honey_production_season 2 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/217262 3 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lumturi-Sena/publication/347934753_Comparative_evaluation_of_the_honey_bee_colonies'_performance_based_on_two_different_sizes_of_hive_boxes/links/5fe8acc3a6fdccdcb80c983d/Comparative-evaluation-of-the-honey-bee-colonies-performance-based-on-two-different-sizes-of-hive-boxes.pdf 4 https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211442/ 5 https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/fne05-560/ 6 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266219 7 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298116332_The_First_Top_Bar_Hive_with_Fully_Interchangeable_Combs 8 https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/agriculture/entomology/beekeeping/general/management/top_bar_faqs/tbhf.html 9 https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/ONE12-159/?ar=2013 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkPkRmBs2b0 11

In this week's Podcast: For new beekeepers, the most important decision can be which hive type to use. With so many options out there it can be quite confusing, today I give my views on some of the most popular.Hi, I'm Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 242 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.Contact Me at The Norfolk Honey CompanyJoin Our Beekeeping Community in the following ways:Early Release & Additional Video and Podcast Content - Access HereStewart's Beekeeping Basics Facebook Private Group - Click HereTwitter - @NorfolkHoneyCo - Check Out Our FeedInstagram - @norfolkhoneyco - View Our Great PhotographsSign Up for my email updates by visiting my website hereTags: |Beekeeping Short and SweetBeekeepingStewart Spinks

Keeping up with the daily news cycle can be hard, especially if you have little ones who need your constant attention, so we've created a new show to get you and your family up to speed, weekly. In around 15 minutes, you and your little ones will all be up to speed on what's happening in the world, including a sports wrap, perfect for your commute to Saturday sport. In this episode, we take a look at why Australia's airports are so busy right now as millions of Aussies go on holiday. Then we will be speaking to a beekeeper to find out why our honey bees are in danger from a tiny insect. And finally we head to London to look at all the traditions that make Wimbledon the most prestigious tennis competition in the world. Find more episodes here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/the-quicky-junior/ GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au With thanks to: James Goodwin - Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Airports Association (AAA) Sue Carney - Vice President of Amateur Beekeepers Australia, founding president of Blue Mountains Beekeepers who keeps bees in Langstroth, Flow and Warre hives Georgie Tunny - Panelist on The Project and formerly a Sports Presenter for the ABC CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Thom Lion Scripting Assistance: Peter Green Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keeping up with the daily news cycle can be hard, especially if you have little ones who need your constant attention, so we've created a new show to get you and your family up to speed, weekly. In around 15 minutes, you and your little ones will all be up to speed on what's happening in the world, including a sports wrap, perfect for your commute to Saturday sport. In this episode, we take a look at why Australia's airports are so busy right now as millions of Aussies go on holiday. Then we will be speaking to a beekeeper to find out why our honey bees are in danger from a tiny insect. And finally we head to London to look at all the traditions that make Wimbledon the most prestigious tennis competition in the world. Find more episodes here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/the-quicky-junior/ GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au With thanks to: James Goodwin - Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Airports Association (AAA) Sue Carney - Vice President of Amateur Beekeepers Australia, founding president of Blue Mountains Beekeepers who keeps bees in Langstroth, Flow and Warre hives Georgie Tunny - Panelist on The Project and formerly a Sports Presenter for the ABC CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Thom Lion Scripting Assistance: Peter Green Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may have heard some news reports about a new infestation of varroa mites that are infecting millions of bees in NSW, threatening the whole of Australia's honey industry as beekeepers are being forced to destroy tens of thousands of hives. But what exactly are these tiny insects, why is this happening now, and what is the risk to all of Australia's agricultural sector if there are not enough bees left to pollinate our crops? The Quicky speaks to a beekeeper and an expert in food resources to find out if this could destroy Australia's honey industry, or if there is a way to turn this situation to our advantage. Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Sue Carney - Vice President of Amateur Beekeepers Australia, founding president of Blue Mountains Beekeepers and keeps bees in Langstroth, Flow and Warre hives Associate Professor Patrick O'Connor - An ecologist in the Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Thom Lion Subscribe to The Quicky at...https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading our articles or listening to our podcasts, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.auv Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can you imagine the difficulty in trying to work a standard Langstroth hive when sitting in a wheelchair? Or how about working bees while blind? These are just two of the handicaps that Justin Ruger is working on so that people with handicaps like these can work bees. Justin is in a wheelchair so he knows what he's talking about. His group is a 501 3c charitable program, working to get training apiaries in every state to accommodate teaching handicapped people how to keep bees, no matter their condition. These apiaries will have all the requirements needed for these people. Along with University in Pennsylvania, he is developing techniques for teaching, building specialized equipment and developing standards for state programs.  This way, beekeeping organizations and equipment manufacturers can use the specifications and recommendations as guidelines to providing the right location setup and the right equipment for establishing their own accessible apiraries Check out their web site for even more information on Accessible Beekeeping. And share what you find with everybody you can. Also in today's episode, Kim returns with a new Bee Books Old and New, presented by Northern Bee Books. This week, Kim reviews, The Principles of Bee Improvement, by Jo Widdicombe We hope you enjoy the episode. Leave comments and questions in the Comments Section of the episode's website. Thank you for listening! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast:  Accessible Beekeeping.org - https://www.accessiblebeekeeping.org Accessible Beekeeping Survey - https://www.accessiblebeekeeping.org/survey Accessible Beekeeping Podcast - https://www.accessiblebeekeeping.org/podcast "Henry Meets A Bee" series of children books - https://www.hippiechickapiary.com/books Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their sponsorship of Bee Books: Old & New with Kim Flottum. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. Check them out today! Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a regular podcast featuring interviews with leading bee and insect researchers in the world of pollination, hosted by Dr. Kirsten Traynor. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

Episode 85 of the Bees with Ben podcast is co-hosted by Dr Anna Carrucan, a second-generation beekeeper and botanist, and the driving force behind Buukaar Waaruung boutique apiary and artisan honey. Also along for the ride (but taking something of a back seat on this occasion) is Simon Mildren from The Hive Buddy, a website dedicated to bees and beekeepers. In this podcast, Ben and Anna discuss the merits of the ProtectaBEE all-in-one adjustable hive entrance that is currently exceeding expectations on the crowd-finding site Indiegogo. Not only can the ProtectaBEE apparently exclude pests like wasps, hornets, robber bees, mice and other predators from the hive, but it can also be used to deliver treatments for varroa mites, diseases and pesticide poisoning. The Protectabee's conical inserts are claimed to mazimise bee movement while establishing an effective physical barrier against predators. Traffic in and out of the hive can be conveniently enhanced (in times of growth), reduced (to aid in winter warming) or even eliminated (when moving hives) by the use of a variety of inserts. The promotional material cites the research of Dr Peter Kevan, from the University of Guelph, who more then twenty years ago came up with the concept of using bees to carry fungal powders to plants to fight pests and diseases; bee vectoring has since been used to improve the health of crops such as strawberries and blueberries. Likewise, Dr Kevan hypothesized that bee vectoring could be effective in combatting pests and diseases inside the hive. Normally, if powders are placed in a hive, the bees will simply carry them out, however, research has evidently shown that ProtectaBEE facilitates treatment inside the hive, and that the device has potential to reduce varroa mites, as well as effectively treating foulbrood and other pests and diseases. ProtectaBEE has been designed to fit both Langstroth and Flow hives; it has been featured in Bee Culture magazine, and is simply and easy to install, as well as being relatively cost effective. The first production run is scheduled for delivery in June 2022, and discounted prices are available for prepurchase via Indiegogo. So what do our experts think? You'll have to listen to the podcast! https://buukaarwaaruung.com.au/meet-the-beekeeper/ https://get.protectabee.bestforbees.com/landing-page-protectabee1638034795905 https://www.hivebuddy.com.au/

Let's once again be lulled to sleep by the hum of beautiful, busy bees, learn all about the workings of the queen bee, and hear every permutation of the word “fecund” possible. December Raffle! Support us on Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee by December 24th to be entered to win a three-month subscription (that's three free audiobooks!) from Libro.fm. Yay! Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The Hive and the Honey Bee” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24583 Music: "earth 2 earth" by PC III, licensed under CC BY If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com.

In this episode, we are delighted to chat with Kenton Langstroth, CMO at Decubate, a blockchain-powered social investing platform, all about how the DeFi movement impacted the personal investing space and changed investor mindset. Before the conversation, you will hear co-hosts Adam and Scott having a lively discussion about the latest news in the world of NFTs, the metaverse, and, funnily enough, Barbados, including:Infinite Objects is creating a way for NBA Top Shot collectors to display a “video print” of their NFTs [AgAge]AMC, Sony offering NFTs to people who purchase advance Spider-Man tickets [CNBC]Adidas has joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club with its own NFTs [Engadget]Nike teams up with Roblox to create a virtual world called Nikeland [CNBC]Fortnite's new ‘Party Worlds' put the focus firmly on socializing [The Verge]Barbados to become the first sovereign nation with an embassy in the metaverse [CoinDesk]As always, you can find Adam and Scott on Twitter at @adamjsimon and @tippier. If you like what you hear, please spare a minute and give us a five-star review on Apple Podcast! If you're a part of the IPG Mediabrands family, come join the Floor 9 community on our dedicated Teams channel here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every kind of hive has some kind of bottom board. Typically, Langstroth type hives have a bottom board that is removable. Many are reversible, too. That is one side has a ridge going around three sides that is only 3/8th of an inch tall, leaving an opening so small in the front that a mouse should not be able to get into the hive. These are used this way in the winter. The other side of this bottom board has a ridge that is 3/4th of an inch tall, to be used in the summer for better ventilation and traffic control out front. For awhile, bottom boards with a screen were common, developed to help control varroa that would fall through if they fell off a bee above. Some people would put cardboard sticky boards under the screen to catch the varroa and give an idea of how many a hive had. These had to be covered in winter, which was sometimes a problem because of lost covers, warped covers or bent screens. They are still around, but mostly for ventilation, not varroa control. Mostly, we use what we have, because that's the way we've always done it. But now there are several styles of bottom boards to use. Many are now heavy duty plastic, some with built in screens and a cover, some are insulated for winter use, and some will fit an 8 frame or 10 frame hive, so no matter what kind of hive you have they will fit just right. Bottom boards are getting to be as technical as the rest of our bee hives. Finally. ___________________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com ______________________ Honey Bee Obscura is brought to you by Growing Planet Media, LLC, the home of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Music: Heart & Soul by Gyom, Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus, original guitar music by Jeffrey Ott Copyright © 2021 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

From Permaculture to Bees and everything in between, C. Scott Taylor is a fascinating man. We had a very enlightening chat and discussed learning Permaculture under the creator himself, Bill Mollison, and touched on how Permaculture has progressed over the years. As an avid bee keeper, Scott has a wealth of information and is more than happy to share. It really is a full conversation and we could have kept on chatting for hours. Scott moved to Australia from Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1999, and became a citizen in 2007. He did a Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) course in 1994, in Northern California, taught by Bill Mollison and a group of teachers he assembled. It was one of the most transformative sets of teachings he had ever experienced, from a masterful teacher. It was a pivotal time in his life, taking his interest in Permaculture for the previous decade to the level of professional training. Following the PDC course he returned to Santa Fe, took on design jobs for various clients and was offered an opportunity to teach an Introduction to Permaculture course at the local Community College (in the US this is equivalent to TAFE). He taught that course for two years. Scott gained a lot of experience and eventually came to realise that Permaculture is not something that can be done without the full participation of the humans involved. It is not something one can do for others: they must be part of the system. He brings to this podcast insights into how Permaculture can inspire and inform your life as a responsible part of the greater living system in which we live. Not one to give out lists of what to do, instead he prefers to share an informed framework for you to work within, avoiding common errors, and making your role easier and better. He enthusiastically encourages anyone seeking to live a healthy life as a contributor to their community to take a Permaculture Design Certification course. -- Thank you for watching. Please Like and Subscribe to Eco Convos with Dan... and be sure to Comment and Share too! You can find us on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, as well as - Facebook: @ecoconvos Instagram: @ecoconvoswithdan Website: www.ecoconvos.com.au #SupportLocal #BuyFreeRange #DemandRealFood Credits: Production by 'MAV marketing' Hosted by Dan Vanderhoek - Eco & Lifestyle Property Specialist Guest was C. Scott Taylor Music by Daniel Raymxnd -- Mentions: - Bill Mollison - David Holmgren - Top bar hives - Langstroth hives - PDC (Permaculture Design Course) Certification - Valley Bees (Mary Valley) Books: - RetroSuburbia by David Holmgren https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36645916-retrosuburbia - Why We Garden: Cultivating A Sense Of Place by Jim Nollman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033646.Why_We_Garden 15 videos by Bill Mollison: - https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/15-amazing-bill-mollison-videos-from-1995-on-odysee-com

This week we learn the apiary arts from the Father of American Beekeeping. It's all about treating your bees with kindness and respect, which is just good advice for life, really. Want to support us and help us stay ad-free? Neat! Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The Hive and the Honey Bee" at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24583 Music: "earth 2 earth" by PC III, licensed under CC BY If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com.

Charlotte Ekker Wiggins, author of two books about beekeeping and beekeepers, is our guest today. Her first book, Bee Club Basics, Or How To Start A Bee Club, dealt with managing teachers mentors, students, classes and the basics of organizing a start-up beekeeping organization. Her second book, just recently released is A Beekeeper's Diary. Self Guide To Keeping Bees.  [Late breaking news! "A Beekeeper's Diary" just won a Bronze Award in the Home & Garden Category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards!  Congratulations Charlotte!] This is a beginner's book, certainly. But it is different than any you have looked at in the past. When confronted with a task for the first time, she will offer several perspectives on how to accomplish it. Which is the right one, well, IT DEPENDS, doesn't it? So, the reader finds where she fits in on this and accomplishes the task the best way for her. There are almost always several correct answers. She also uses checklists a lot. These are always handy and with them she often uses blank pages so you can write your own list, or make notes on something, or make a question for later. Why do you want to keep bees, anyway? A good question right at the beginning. And start with Langstroth equipment because there is so much written about it, and so much information on it. You can graduate to other equipment when you get the basic biology stuff behind you. There are a host of “Good To Know” tips, which cover whatever topic the chapter is covering but from a somewhat different perspective. For instance, Buying used equipment – good or bad, and why? Check out both of Charlotte's books. They are different enough from what you have that it will be worth your time. Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Charlotte's Website - http://www.charlotteekkerwiggins.com Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ Calling all craft food and drink makers! Entry period for the 12th annual Good Food Awards is open now thru June 30th, and we're accepting entries from 18 different categories of food and drink, including honey. Entries are $78 a piece to help cover logistics, and entrants can add on the option to receive judge feedback from the Blind Tasting in August for $15. Head over to goodfoodfdn.org for all the details and use code BEEKEEPING at checkout for $10 off. We look forward to seeing your entries soon! Click here for Submission Information Click here for Rules & Regulations Click here for Honey Category details ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"; Musicalman, "Epilogue". Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

In Part 4 of our 5-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth, we talk with Paul Longwell about the AZ Hive. Paul has been keeping bees for quite a few years. He's a Master Beekeeper and has bees in Langstroth hives, top bar hives and has a shed with his AZ Hives. AZ hives, if you're not familiar with them were developed in Slovenia, which has a long history with bees and beekeeping. Basically, AZ hives are in a small shed that the beekeeper goes into to work the bees. To work these hives, they are opened from the back, not the top, and the back is inside the shed. Bees exit from the opening on the outside, and there's a double door that opens in the trailer, a screen closest to the bees, and a solid door to seal the hive. Frames are parallel to the long side of the hive, like a book case, and can be removed by sliding them out of the door in the back. Like Langstroth hives, they can be 2 or more boxes high, with the brood on the bottom and honey above. The boxes, and thus the frames are larger than Lang frames, and they don't hang on a rabbet, but rather sit on a very narrow metal support and beekeepers simply slide them out of the box to examine. Because the entire hive isn't opened, very little smoke is needed and beesuits are rare. Bees that fly when a frame is examined will leave the inside of the shed through a bee escape in the ceiling that offers the only light. The shed can be standalone (like Paul's) or it can be on a trailer so it can be moved around. It is completely enclosed so it can be warmed by a small heater and a beekeeper can examine the bees at night, using a red light, or even in the winter, with the heater on. Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: PNW AZ Hives Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384979521682962 AZ Hives North America - https://azhivesnorthamerica.com   Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"; Musicalman, "Epilogue". Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

In Part Three of our five-part Hive Types Series, we talk with Colorado Master Beekeeper and columnist Tina Sebestyen about the Long or Horizontal Langstroth. Horizontal hives are very much like the traditional Langstroth hives, which are vertical stacks of boxes, except horizontal hives are only one box high and about three boxes long. The very best thing about horizontal hives is that you never have to lift a very heavy box off the top of a hive to get to what's below that box. Essentially, no lifting for the beekeeper. Horizontal hives, using 30 frames, can have the front door on either or both ends, or in the middle. If there is just one opening, it should be on the end, so the bees build their nest a frame or two of honey right next to the entrance, behind that some of the bee bread, then the brood next, and at the end away from the front door will be the honey. Not up, but back. Burlap can be used instead of inner covers, using 4 or 5 pieces laid on top of the top bars. The bees will stick some of this to the top bars with propolis, but also leave passageways so they can go over the top of the frames. This very much resembles what a nest in a tree would be like. Propolis is good. Tina explains there are additional advantages for the beekeeper: You use much less equipment. It's all in one box. No more supers in the garage, with frames, feeders and the like. Plus, swarm control gets a lot easier, especially if you have entrances on both ends. If you find swarm cells in the brood area, simply find the queen, move her to the other end with some brood and bees, and move the divider board from the very end to the middle, open the second entrance and you're set. You've made a split without using any more equipment. Tina has written several articles on horizontal hive keeping for Bee Culture magazine (starting with the February 2020 issue), has loads of info on her web page and is in the process of writing a book on the topic. She shares it all in this podcast. Listen today! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Tina's Website - https://beequest.buzz/ Follow Tina on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bee.longing/   Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"; Musicalman, "Epilogue". Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

We continue with our five-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth, with Christy Hemenway. Christy has been working with top bar hives for just over 14 years now and has developed a good sense of how they work. She started out liking them because – It's all about the wax – clean wax was important to her and top bar hives produce clean wax. No foundation to fuss with and no contaminants to worry about, so it's perfect for cut comb honey, or the crush and drain method of harvesting liquid honey. But there's a lot more. NO heavy lifting is a definite plus with these hives, because all you ever have to lift is a single frame at a time. The top bars are set such that they snuggle up next to each other, so no openings in the top of the hive when you open a top bar hive, which keeps the bees inside, not flitting around, giving you a hard time. And, because they are beveled on the bottom, there is actually more surface for the bees to attach the comb than if just a straight wooden stick. There are a few tricks to learn when handling top bar hive frames, but overall, pretty straight forward with lifting and turning and rolling frames. The only downside she sees is that these hives won't produce a ton of honey for you and they are a tad more difficult to move around than a Langstroth, but they are perfect for a smaller scale backyard beekeeper who worries more about the bees than the honey. In a lot of ways, these are very different from a Langstroth hive, but again, if it's good for the bees, it's probably not so good for the beekeeper. Which would you prefer? Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Gold Star Honey Bees - https://www.goldstarhoneybees.com Christy's Amazon Books Author's Page - https://www.amazon.com/Christy-Hemenway/e/B008C8BNAS   Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"; Musicalman, "Epilogue". Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

This week, we start our multi-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth.  We start with the Flow Hive. In this episode, we talk with Stewart Anderson, who, with his son Cedar imagined and then created the Flow Hive, certainly the most cosmic jump in the technology of honey harvesting developed since the first mechanical honey extractor conceived by Major Franz Elder von Hruschka in 1865. It started on a hot summer day 16 years ago when Cedar had spent a long day cranking his extractor harvesting his honey crop. Cranky bees, humid tropical weather and lots of work made Cedar ask his dad if there was some way to harvest honey without having to open a hive. So that evening they spent a couple of hours trying to figure out the equation that would change honey harvesting forever. They actually figured out that to make that happen they needed to make the honey flow vertically in the hive to be collected at the bottom, somehow. That simple discovery had to overcome opening ripe honey cells, dealing with the cappings, reclosing the cell, removing the now disrupted capping wax, and seeing if the bees would reuse the cells. Or even abscond. Their website photos show how they made that work and work well, with plastic frames inside the Langstroth deep hive body that could be offset with a crank on the outside of the box, offsetting the cells in the frame so the honey drained to a pipe below, to empty into honey bottles outside. Harvesting honey without opening the hive. But getting there took them a score of years, figuring out how to manufacture the frames needed, to make them fit, how to make it all fit, and how to market this. Their first intentions were to make this a tool for commercial beekeepers in their home country of Australia. But it turns out, it was the perfect tool for the hobby market, and, to their surprise, these customers wanted the whole hive, not just the deep super with all the gadgets inside. Life then got interesting for them. Listen as Stu talk with us about his and more! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: Flow Hive - https://www.honeyflow.com Kim's Book on Cicadas by Gene Kritsky - https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0867271736/ Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ We welcome Betterbee as sponsor of today's episode. BetterBee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, BetterBee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"; Musicalman, "Epilogue". Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

Ken is making plans to finally move some of his Langstroth colonies to his property located several counties away from his home apiary.  But, since beekeeping is typically a weekly event at this time of year, how does one go about trying to manage a growing colony when you are several hours away and likely will not see your colonies but maybe once a month?  John and Ken talk through some of the initial concepts to plan for such an adventure.  The guys also discuss how to re-wax the plastic core foundation in an effort to get the bees to fully draw out comb on the plastic, as well as the potential effects of a prolonged La Nina weather pattern.

In this episode of Beekeeping Today Podcast, we reconnect with our beekeeping friends from Season 2, Episode 29. They come from across the country including Central North Carolina, North East Ohio, the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and the West Coast of Washington. We talk with them about last season, this winter and what they expect for next season. We start out in North Carolina with Mark Smith, who has had bees since 2014 and is running 20 – 30 treatment free colonies. His season last year had some real surprises and he was playing catch up most of the summer. He has some good plans for this spring though that should help out this season. Next, on to North East Ohio, with Tracy Alarcon, an Inspector in Portage County. The weather played tricks with his honey flow last summer and he made a boatload of honey he wasn't quite prepared for. Surprise! So, he's going to be prepared this year. Next, on to the western slope of Colorado with Ed Cobey, the Bottom Board author in Bee Culture magazine every month. Ed runs about 70 colonies and keeps them at low, medium and high altitudes, so has a very mixed season. He had excellent overwintering last year, but some drought got in the way of the honey crop. Finally, meet Paul Longwell, a 12-year beekeeper in Olympia Washington. Paul uses topbar, Langstroth and AZ Slovenian beehouse hives, and volunteers to treat neighboring hives to reduce mite pressure. Lots of rain means lots of honey, some years, and you have to be ready for that, and do things at the right time, and he's getting good at that. Four different regions. Four different beekeepers. Four different approaches to managing their bees through the seasons. Listen today and see how you compare and perhaps what you might do differently this year! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: First Episode with the Regional Beekeepers (Season 2, Episode 29) - https://www.beekeepingtodaypodcast.com/regional-beekeeper-perspectives-east-midwest-and-mountain-states-s2-e29/ Mark Smith: Flatwoods Bee Farm on Instagram -flatwoodsbeefarm Flatwoods Bee Farm on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/flatwoodsbeefarm/ Flatwoods Bee Farm on YouTube - https://youtube.com/channel/UC0gbVzebQUscVKmmwGeYh2w Read Ed Colby in Bee Culture Magazine   Western Apicultural Society Monthly Conference - https://westernapiculturalsociety.org/mini-conferences/ Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com ______________ Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong", Musicalman, "Epilogue" Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

PODCAST EPISODE 21: Cedar Anderson, Flow Hive co-inventor, Byron Bay, Australia While the recording of this episode might be a little crackly in parts, I feel it represents something of the character of my next guest. Inventor, entrepreneur, bee lover, family man, paraglider, Flow Hive co-creator – Cedar Anderson is a truly down-to-earth bloke with truly down-to-earth (yet highly ambitious) passions. The chat we had – recorded, on his end, from underneath his house – crackles in parts, like an earthy laugh, and seems indicative of Cedar's grass-roots approach. However, this analogy doesn't quite paint the picture of just how switched on and inspiring Cedar truly is. An ABC article by Vanessa Gorman perfectly summed up Cedar's evolution in its title: ‘From humble hippie to multi-millionaire businessman — the man who revolutionised the beehive'. Cedar and I first met when I went to visit him with Simon Mulvany (from Save the Bees) at his home in Broken Head, near Byron Bay, in the spectacular Northern Rivers area of New South Wales; however, I had heard of him long before that trip and was excited to meet him in person. What you take from meeting this lovely man is that he is dedicated to his family, he loves and appreciates nature, he is an inspiring businessperson, and that his connection to bees has allowed him to create a system for extracting honey that is both unique and effective. This third-generation beekeeper has been inspiring the beekeeping community in Australia and abroad with his new ideas and environmental ethos – check out his TEDxBrisbane Talk, ‘Why the World Needs Backyard Inventors' if you haven't already. So, what is this revolutionary invention Cedar co-invented, you might ask? The Flow Hive presents a new way of extracting honey from Langstroth-style European honeybee hives. While understanding that the most important aspect of any honey production process is respect for the animal and looking after a colony as best as humanly possible, a system like the Flow Hive changes the honey extraction process completely through “an artificial foundation made from BPA- and BPS-free food grade plastic, manufactured right here in Australia, on which the bees build their comb”. The bees fill the artificial cells with honey and cap them off. Then, a “Flow Key” is inserted to split the cells, and gravity helps the honey flow into the trough, through tubes and straight into your honey jars! With an incredible 48,000+ customers in over 139 countries, the Flow Hive is building even stronger connections between keepers and bees. Tune in to hear Cedar and I talk about the Flow Hive, inventing, family, eco-business and stumbling upon a 30-year-old bee box mid-podcast! https://www.honeyflow.com.au https://www.bensbees.com.au

Another episode of the pick your hive Mini series that were doing. I apologize for the rabbit hole that I fell down, however we covered a lot with langstroths.

Today we'll be talking about a certain type of hives that are near and dear to my heart, these hives allow you to do your beekeeping without lifting 60 to a hundred lb boxes

Hi I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 111 of my podcast Beekeeping Short and sweet. So this week I’ll reveal the exciting news I have for you and with rising temperatures outside clipped queens have been both a blessing and a conundrum, they just don’t always do what you read in the books!Catch up with my latest podcast hereI’m grateful to Honey Paw hives for sponsoring in part our podcasts for this season.Honey Paw hives are, as I’m sure you’re aware, Poly Langstroth hives and we’re setting up an apiary full of their hives this season courtesy of Honey Paw. Check out their range of hives and other equipment on their website, I’ll leave a link to their website in the show notes as usual.Honey Paw Hives - Designed by Beekeepers, For Beekeepers.Welcome back everybody, especially to everyone who continues to get the very latest podcasts each week as they are released, if you’d like to be first to hear the weekly podcast pop over to my patreon page and check out the podcast tier.Last week I threw out a teaser about some exciting news and I posted a picture of the event on my patreon page just a couple of days ago. And that news is, I’ve finally got too fed up with falling over my own feet in the honey extraction room that I’ve signed the lease on a small commercial unit here in Norwich and have been moving in over the last seven days. It’s a personal milestone for me and something I’ve been hoping to do for some time. The unit is situated just a 15 minute walk away from my home. It means I can gather up all of my essential equipment together and not end up scratching my head trying to figure out where I left the last box of jars or have to drive to the workshop to count up how many sheets of brood foundation I have for my Langstroth hives.The very best part is that I can now set out the honey room section of the unit in the best possible configuration to make the process of uncapping and extracting honey as easy as I can and that should really see a lot of time and frustration. The grand plan is to section off the rear of the unit into the honey extraction area so that can be kept clean for honey and food production as I’m hoping to get back on track with some of the other products we used to produce. The front of the unit has a roller shutter door as well as a standard door entrance and that’s been really useful for brining in all of the equipment but will also be great for moving in the heavy honey supers without having to negotiate a doorway that’s not quite big enough without scraping my knuckles on the door frame. I can see it will be quite chilly in the Winter so a portioned wall and teaching room that will double up as an office for me is also on the wish list but that will have to wait as the cost of building the stud walls is beyond me currently. If there are any builders listening that fancy swapping a days work for a days mentoring do get in touch, although I do have a very good friend who is a top notch builder/plasterer so I’m hoping I can get him over to price up the job.Next week is honey extraction week so I’ll go through putting on the clearer boards and what types I use and why and I’ll report back on exactly how we get on with actual honey extracted in a couple of weeks.I hope you are also enjoying a Spring nectar flow and your supers are filling up with golden honey to reward you for all your work with your own bees.Well, that’s it for this week, have a great beekeeping week, Stay safe and Please do remember to check out my Patreon page where you can access lots more content, that’s www.patreon.com/norfolk honey.I’m Stewart Spinks and that was Beekeeping Short and Sweet.

Hi, I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 99 of my podcast Beekeeping Short and sweet.Someone recently predict that Spring had arrived, well, with snow showers today and cooler weather ahead Winter still feels to have a grip. That shouldn’t stop us looking ahead and getting our bees in tip-top condition for the new season.Catch up with the very latest podcast as they are released hereHoney Paw Hives can be found online hereHoney Paw in the UK HereThis podcast is sponsored in part by Honey Paw Hives, This season I’m delighted to have Honey Paw hives on board as one of our biggest supporters. Do pop over to their website to take a look at the fantastic range of Langstroth beehives and here in the UK check out Modern Beekeeping who are the sole UK distributors of Honey paw Hives. As usual, I’ll leave links to their websites in the podcast notes.We’ve had a few chilly days of late, I’ve even taken to wearing my crocheted, beanie hat that I was given as a Christmas present a few years ago. Looks little daft but keeps my head warm, especially at the workshop where we don’t really have heating apart from the hot air that Pete and I spout when we’re talking, which is most of the time, but it’s still not enough to keep us warm.We’ve been trying to keep warm by painting the Honey Paw equipment, it sometimes seems a never-ending task especially as we don’t have the luxury of spray painting so it’s all rollers and paintbrushes, that said, we got a couple of coats on most things and Pete’s been checking everything out this week and covering up the bits we all missed. Hopefully this weekend we’ll have completed that particular task and we can move on to some of the more exciting jobs. I’m going to filming my take on the floors and roofs of the Honey Paw hives next, some interesting kit with some very clever features so do keep a lookout for that. Then it will be frames and wax foundation, and mountains of them. Not just for the Langstroth Poly Hives but for all the boxes we’ve been cleaning and preparing ready for the start of the new season. And that brings me on to today’s topic of getting ready for the new season.I was recently asked to give a talk in late March at the Norwich and District beekeeping association, my local beekeeping group that I’m a member of.The topic I’ve been asked to talk about is Getting hives ready for the new season. Well, the problem is by the time I give the talk, the third Wednesday of the month, it’s likely to be too late, I know that last season, we were very busy with our colonies moving to Oilseed Rape, putting nucs into full-sized hives and more generally beginning the checks for swarms.The perfect time to give a talk about preparing hives for Spring is probably August!Now that might come as a surprise to some beginner beekeepers but the more experienced beekeepers Will know exactly what I’m talking about. For me, the honey production season comes to a sudden halt at the end of July, you could almost see the nectar tap being turned off, it’s that sudden. So what is the beekeeper supposed to do between the end of July and the start of the new season around six months later, well, not a great deal if he or she is organised but there are some crucial steps that gets the hive in perfect condition and ready for a fast start the following Spring.I hope you have a fantastic week, the new season will soon be upon us so let’s do all we can to have a fast start.Please do remember to check out my Patreon page where you can access lots more content, that’s www.patreon.com/norfolk honey.I’m Stewart Spinks and that was Beekeeping Short and Sweet.

Hi, I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 96 of my podcast Beekeeping Short and sweet.Another very busy week, we’ve been scorching boxes, feeding fondant and the Honey Paw Hives have arrived and that’s got me super excited for the coming season.Find your local stockist of Zukan Apipasta Fondant Bee Feeds HereHoney Paw Hives can be found in the UK at Happy Valley Honey For Orders outside the UK contact Honey Paw directI am very grateful to both Happy Valley Honey and Honey Paw for, in part, sponsoring this week's episode of my podcast. Both Happy Valley Honey and Honey Paw have supplied samples of their products free of charge for me to test out and promote. I use both products in my day to day beekeeping anyway so I am delighted to be able to recommend both to you.Talking of fondant I’ve been given a few boxes of Zukan Apipasta by Paul Beardmore at Happy Valley Honey to try out, this is the basic fondant not the one with the added amino acids and vitamins. The good news is our bees are taking to it as readily as the Apipasta with the added proteins. Happy Valley Honey is, in part, sponsoring this podcast and supporting me in producing our podcasts and in return, I’m very happy, please excuse the pun, very happy to promote their range of Fondants and liquid feeds.If you need to get some ready-made fondant that’s great for your bees and will help them grow into strong and healthy colonies for the start of the new season then do take a look at the Happy Valley Honey Website for full details of where you can get hold of this Apipasta fondant. I know that there are now several stockists around the UK that can supply Apipasta which, if you’re local to one of them will save you a small fortune in courier costs. Alternatively, get together with a few friends at your beekeeping association and place a bulk order to split between you all. It’s called Zukan Apipasta and I’ll leave a link to the website in the podcast notes.I am so excited to be collaborating again with the Honey Paw team, we’re going to be starting from scratch again and it couldn’t more timely. Here in the UK Poly hives are becoming more available, the quality is superb and if well looked after these hives will last a lifetime.The plan is to use the nucs we already have in our own Honey Paw Nucs and also carry out a couple of shook swarms to convert from a different sized frame into the Langstroth hives.It won’t work well unless you have plenty of bees and plenty of resources, that’s food. So I’ll be shaking full-sized colonies into the boxes and giving them a feeder with plenty of sugar syrup.I fully expect we will see brood boxes filled with drawn comb in somewhere around 7 to 10 days if all goes to plan. We’ll have a brood break which also means we can treat with oxalic acid to kill off any varroa mites that may be present, and that’s a nice bonus. The key to that is to plan it ahead of the day and get everything ready.So, do sign up to the Patreon page videos, subscribe to my YouTube channel and listen out for more updates as we get cracking into the start of the new season.Well, that’s it for this week, If you haven’t check ed out my Patreon page as yet, please do take a look, you support is very welcome. that’s www.patreon.com/norfolkhoneyThanks for hanging around until the end of the podcast, have a great week and we’ll catch up again next time.I’m Stewart Spinksand that was Beekeeping Short and Sweet.

In the previous episode they guys discussed some initial spring tasks such as rotating your boxes. But, what about those of us that don't use a Langstroth style hive? Well, this episode will break down how you can accomplish the same sort of task for all your Horizontal Hive Style setups out there!

Hi, I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 93 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.Another busy week and I’ve been out checking up on the colonies we fed last week. I’ve also had a question about early season colony management so stay tuned for more chat about making a great start to the new season.Welcome back to the podcast, if you’ve only just found us, you are most welcome and if you’re a regular listener, I’m grateful to you for sticking around. It’s been another wet and windy week, super mild and no sign of any wintery weather at all. The bees have been out flying on regular cleansing flights and apart from a mouse in an unused nuc box, everything seems safe and secure.We’re currently sat at 80 colonies, a mix of full-sized hives in all shapes and sizes, Nationals, Commercials, Langstroth's and some 14 x 12’s, together with a similar mix of nucs in the various sizes. We have wooden and poly hives and I have to say, this year, we seem to be doing very nicely in the poly hives. The nucs and full-sized hives all seem to be of a decent size and active in the mild weather. I should really carry out a count up of the two material types to give you all a better idea of the exact mix, in fact, if I just visualise the apiaries I can do it now. Currently, we have 8 times full-sized poly hives and 12 times poly nucs. The rest are wooden. We do have more stock of poly hives just no bees in the as yet. I use the Maisemore Poly Commercials and the Honey Paw Poly Langstroth’s. Both are fantastic, we’ve had the Maisemore poly hives longer than the Honey Paw’s and they’re still in excellent shape. In the beginning, I did worry about how long they would hold up and although it’s only been a few years now, they’re doing remarkably well.The better poly hives are using 100g per litre material and that certainly seems like a substantial weight of material giving a nice feel of strength to the hives. I really must do a weight comparison between a full made up poly hive and a wooden one to show the difference. We’ve been out visiting the apiaries as I mentioned and quite a number of the colonies have been getting stuck into the fondant that we put on last week, smooch so, in fact, that we’re going to have to continue feeding those colonies now until the Spring flow comes in otherwise we risk seeing them starve out and there’s only one person to blame for that. The nucs housed in the BSHoney 2 in 1 nucs have been looking very good this Winter, the boxes are full of bees and the poly material really seems to be helping them, that said, we’ve not had any cold weather yet so they’ve not been truly tested. These nucs have certainly been the ones to gorge themselves on the fondant and we’re currently adding the second bag to most of these boxes.A couple of the Maisemore poly hives are similarly across the top bars, I posted a picture or two via Patreon and my social media feeds, twitter and Instagram, showing a “nine-seamer”, That’s a colony with bees visible between ten brood frames which adds up to nine seams.For those colonies, I added a homemade eke with two bags of fondant directly on the top bars. The eke’s are made from cheap roofing batten simply cut and screwed together. The Maisemore poly commercials are about 500mm square so easy enough to sort. The trick is to keep a close eye on them in the Spring or you’ll end up with a really nice 500mm square block of brace comb that will need cutting away from the top of the brood frames and make a nice mess with honey and wax dripping everywhere. I speak from personal experience, of course, last year the bees were away so fast the brace comb seemed to appear overnight!Once they do start to build into the Spring it’s important to get the eke off and another box on, but more of this in a few minutes. Checking out the other apiaries, and we currently have eight active apiaries, the bees were all looking well and feeding quickly into the fondan

Hi, I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 91 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.Here it is, as promised, Well, I’ve finally started my Top Bar Hive Project by getting into the workshop and watching Pete do all the woodwork! This week I’m discussing what the Top Bar Hive is all about, why I’ve chosen to give them a try and how we’re getting on building our very first hive.So the Top Bar Hive or TBH as I’m going likely abbreviate it to, is not totally new to me as I’ll explain but I’ve never used one myself to keep bees in and have always wondered what the fuss was all about.The TBH seems to generate a lot of heated and passionate debate wherever it is used and that in itself is quite interesting to me because as most of you know I’m very much about letting beekeepers keep bees the way they want to keep bees. Whether it be in Langstroth’s or Nationals, Warre hives or Plastic Beehaus constructions, surely it’s down to the individual beekeeper to decide how he or she wants to keep bees and get the maximum amount of pleasure out of it they can.Now, I’m a beekeeper with a small commercial outfit, barely commercial with around 80 colonies going into the Winter but even so I can’t see myself continuing to be a commercially productive beekeeper if I were just using a Top Bar Hive as my main hive type. I could, of course, be totally wrong and find it works out perfectly so I’m not going to close my mind to any outcome at the outset but I do have reservations about the practicalities of moving bees in a TBH.Before I get stuck into the nitty-gritty of the Top Bar Hives, In today’s podcast I want to talk about what they are, how they work and think about some of the practical pro’s and con’s of using one. Back at the workshop Pete and I have started to construct our very first hive and it seems to be going quite well. I’ve posted some pictures and there’ll be videos to follow in the next few weeks.On the subject of videos, I made one of those terrible cock-ups this week, I went over to the workshop at the weekend and we started to prepare the wood for the Top Bar Hive and I shot some very lengthy videos showing, in details, the steps we’d taken thus far.I got home, had dinner, a glass of wine and started watching the Eagles playing football and while I was watching decided I could catch up a little by uploading the photographs to my google photos account. I didn’t need to upload the videos as I was going to download those to my computer to edit. It looked like I uploaded all the pictures and videos at the same time so, wait for it, I deleted all of the videos from my google photos app. The next morning I sat at my computer ready to download the videos anatomy computer and they were nowhere to be seen!Yep, I’d deleted the lot! About twenty minutes of HD video. It was one of those, NO, I haven’t, moments. A brief but pointless attempt at trying to recover them and then the realisation that I’m going to have to do it all again!On the bright side, at least we have another pallet and plenty of wood to be able to recreate the shoot!Anyway, Top Bar Hives. without trying to sound too patronising, these are beehives, which have top bars for the bees instead of frames. It really is as simple as that. There are a variety of types, which I really don’t want to get into, the internet is awash with claims of who is supposed to have invented them, well, the one me and Pete have created is a version of the Kenyan Top Bar Hive and plans are freely available on the internet and I’ll be posting a blog showing our TBH journey over the coming months and no doubt we’ll post a plan and cutting list there for anyone who wants to follow us.I’ve been considering why a Top Bar Hive would be so good? Well, for a start it’s a super easy hive to build and as I’ve mentioned we’re using pallet wood which was free, so they can be super cheap. Of course, you can go out and buy a read

Join Nicole and Drake Larson in part three of Honey Money. Learn about different hive styles and how to set up your very first hive!WHAT YOU’LL LEARNWhat is the difference between Langstroth, Top Bar, Warre, AZ or Slovenian, and the Flow Hive?Choosing 8 or 10 frame LangstrothHow to setup your new hiveChoosing plastic foundation, wax foundation, or going foundationlessWords of encouragement for new beekeepersOUR GUESTDrake Larson is a family attorney in Pueblo, CO. When not practicing law, he possesses a deep curiosity for things unfamiliar to him. Drake spearheads the exciting commentary and asks many common questions that new beginners ponder.RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONEDEco Wood Treatment*Friends of Heritage Acres Market Facebook pageDrake Larson’s WebsiteEmail us! Ask@HeritageAcresMarket.com*Denotes affiliate linksSUPPORT THE SHOWYour support helps us continue to provide the best possible episodes!View Our Favorites on Amazon*Shop HeritageAcresMarket.comFollow us on Facebook and InstagramJoin our Hens & Hives Facebook GroupJoin our VIP Text ClubCall our podcast message line and leave a question or comment! 719-647-7754Sign up and be the first to know about future episodes and updates!- http://bit.ly/2CMza8m#backyardbountypodcast #heritageacresmarketSupport the show (http://paypal.me/heritageacresmarket)

Welcome once again to my weekly podcast, That week seemed to fly by. I’ve been busy again at the workshop and when this podcast comes out to you on Friday I’ll be gearing up to head out to carry out first inspections on the remaining colonies I’ve not yet checked up on.Please do check out my support page where you can listen to the very latest podcasts and watch all of my exclusive beekeeping videos. Click on the link below.The Norfolk Honey Co.I’m hoping the queen failures I encountered last week are the last of any immediate issues with our colonies. That will make a total of three failed colonies over Winter which is pretty good really in the big scheme of things.Before I talk more about the colonies and my plans for the coming month I thought I’d update you on the progress out at the workshop.Well, I seemed to have filled most of the available space pretty quickly. It’s starting to get a little cramped and I need to get a bit more organised. My main reason for taking so much equipment over there was to get it out of the rain. I need to make some repairs to a fair bit of very old equipment, mostly stuff I acquired when I first got started and is now starting to show it’s age. I have some old Langstroth floors that i bought as part of a job lot of Commercial beehive parts, what the beekeeper had done is screwed a piece of timber to the outside long edge on both sides and converted it to a square footprint to allow commercial and national brood boxes to sit on top. They work fine just like that but they are a little on the old side now and some of the wood had started to rot because water seeps in between the added pieces of wood and the main floor. It hasn’t helped with them being sat outside through the wetter months, although this Winter hasn’t been particularly wet or cold, even so, to sort them out I need them to dry out, hence I’ve moved them to the workshop where they are now sat prior to being repaired. There’s no point throwing them away only to have to buy new floors for my expansion plans.I’m beginning to cultivate that “make do and mend” attitude lots of my fellow bee farmers have and I now understand why with the prices of beekeeping equipment seemingly increasing year on year. Even with price rises we could probably all do with a change in attitude regarding our throw away society, don’t repair it, just dump it and get a new one. We seem to have lost some of the skills in taking a broken thing and repairing it. Not everyone of course, Pete was telling me about an electric drill he managed to salvage because the battery had died and it’s previous owner just dumped it. Pete, for those of you who don’t know, has just started beekeeping and I’m mentoring in exchange for some help around the apiaries and at the workshop. It helps that he can bring hot coffee across the road to the workshop on his way to work but together we’ve made up a heap of kit recently and I’m excited to help him learn more beekeeping skills as the new season progresses.If you’ve not got a mentor and you’ve only just begun beekeeping have a chat with members of your local association and see if you can go along to help out with a more experienced beekeeper some time. Stand, watch and listen, don’t be in too much of a rush to get your hands on frames, it’s amazing what you can learn from a more experienced beekeeper by watching how they handle their bees.Anyway, back to Pete and the Drill, Pete managed to buy a replacement battery and the drill works just fine and it’s a decent brand too, so well done Pete for your “Make do and Mend” attitude.It’s going to come in handy as I have a number of boxes that need mending too.The workshop is about 10m by 12m so it’s nice size, some of you might have seen the recent videos shot in the workshop. I think it will become a makeshift studio when rain or cold stops us from getting into the bees

Humans have valued bees for their honey for thousands of years – and economists have long admired bees for their cooperative work ethic, too. But few of us, whether economists, honey-lovers, or both, have quite appreciated just how much the honey bee has been industrialised – and the simple yet radical invention that made that industrialisation possible. As Tim Harford explains, it is a sign of just how far the modern market economy has penetrated that it now reaches deep into the heart of the beehive. Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Richard Vadon (Image: Bee keeper lifting shelf out of hive, Credit: MIlan Jovic/Getty Images)

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element DIY Series - Episode #1Why BeekeepingTypes of BeesIntro to HivesHobby vs CommercialWhy Beekeeping?  Keeping bees is an amazing experience; enlightening, humbling, educational, and rewarding. Beekeeping supports community pollination, food supplies, and fosters bee populations outside of the commercial beekeeping industry.Pollination:  Bees can help make your plants healthy as they pollinate, as well as fruit trees in nearby orchards which helps the local economy! Low maintenance. Bees work hard without much effort from you.Honeybee Decline:  Some of the main causes are pesticides both agricultural and home & garden used chemicals.Pests; Varroa mites, Hive BeetlesDiseases, Nosema and American Foulbrood (will discuss in Part three of this series.)Predators: Wasps, Racoons and BearsClimate changes: Rapid climate changes disrupt the timing between bees and blooming. Directly impacts the hives brood and bee rearing cycles.Monoculture: Huge scale single crop plantings deprive the honeybees of the diversity of vegetation key to healthy bee habitats virtually creating food deserts.          Honey:  Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants known as nectar. Honey is used as a natural sweetener, is found in skin and health care products, and medicines. Honey’s flavor profile is determined by the nectar available in a three mile radius.Fun: Mead! Mead is composed of honey, water and yeast. It is a fermented drink growing in popularity at a rapid rate. It’s an ancient drink that is making a great comeback.Community Education, Entomology, Ecosystems, all help us to better  understand our modern food system and the importance of it’s sustainability.Health and Well Being: Coming from Beeswax and propolis, a hive byproduct.Household items: candles, soaps, salves, lotions, shampoos, creams, deodorants, tonics, tinctures, wood polish and beeswax wraps to name a few.Types of Bees:Not all pollinators are honey bees. The honey bee is exceptional because it  also provides food for human consumption. Our focus will be mainly on the honey bee but we must remember we need all of our pollinators to survive.Apis Mellifera is the Western honey bee. Apis is Latin for “Bee” and Mellifera is “honey bearing”. It is the most commonly recognized bee when we think of pollination but we do have other species as well.Mason Bees also known as Blue orchard Bees don’t live in big hives but live in tubular cavities. They do not produce honey but are some of the best pollinators out there and in light of the honey bees’ decline these are a great addition to pollinating your trees and gardens. Seven mason Bees pollinate at the same level as 500 Honey Bees. to you can see how we can utilize this little group as well.Bumble Bees are similar to the Honey Bee when it comes to the structure of the colony. They have a single Queen and colonies are marginally smaller than the Honey Bees.They also feed on nectar but do not produce honey. The Queens invade other Bumblebee nests, kill the resident Queens and lay their eggs.This species is also in decline caused by habitat loss along with the mechanization of agriculture and the use of pesticides.CapenterBee, Leafcutter Bee, Sweat Bees, and so on! I suggest a google search for types of bees. You will be astounded at the diversity in the Bee  families.The Beehive:  Understand various types of beehives are perfectly fine. Each is user preference when it comes to keeping their bees.Beehive: an enclosed man made structure where honeybees live and raise their young.Bees nest: an the location bee colonies chose to house themselves in, walls, roofs, cavities in trees, old sheds, etc. In warmer climates you can find them hanging and exposed.So, the nest is the bees way and the hive is the man made way to house the nest.If you were to look into the inside of the nest you would see densely packed hexagon shaped cells make of wax for food storage, honey, pollen, and most importantly to house their brood which is composed of eggs, larvae and pupae up to the day they emerge from the cell as  a honeybee.Both natural and man made bee hives or nests require bee space. Bees do this naturally, modern hives use frames with bee space integrated into their design.Three most common types: Langstroth, Warre and Tob bar.Diagrams and pictures available in the DIY section online at honeybeemyteacher.comLangstroth: Bottom board with a porch for the bees entrance,  boxes with frames.Inner cover and telescoping cover for protection from weather.  Standard for many of the worlds beekeepers both professional and amateur.  Simple structure and fairly easy to work with.I prefer the 8 frame hive because of weight.  Honey is heavy!  Good beginner hiveWarre hive very similar to the Langstroth.Difference: Bars only, no frames. Bees build themselves.  It takes a little more skill to manage but is becoming more popular among sustainable practice beekeepers.  New empty box is placed on the bottom as opposed to the Langstroth where we place the new box on the top.  Purpose of this replacement is warmth retention within the brood nest of the hive which is considered to be the heartbeat of the hive.Top bar Hive: Horizontal design. Also referred to and the Kenya hive. Uses bars no frames. You have to make sure to create bee space.Pricing ranges:Langstroth: Unassembled $95 to as much as $299Warre:  $140 to $400Top Bar. $45 to $350Hobby vs Commercial Beekeeping:Hobby Beekeepers are in a great position to make a real impact for the Honeybee.The hobbyists can effectively create a matrix of Bee populations giving the Honeybee a fighting chance to survive and regenerate their populations while commercial Beekeepers  focus on pollinating large scale crops for profit.Making the decision to be a hobbyist or work at the commercial level boils down to your motivation and reason to keep the Honeybees.This podcast is focused on the opportunity to work together in community to make healthy changes for our beautiful planet.Press subscribe and let's get started learning, teaching, and buzzing together. 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On this episode of The Hive Jive, the guys will take a look at the different beehive styles out there. Are you having a hard time trying to decide if you should start your beekeeping journey with a Langstroth hive or a Topbar hive? Don't fret! You can use these 5 considerations to help make your decision a bit easier.

paypal.me/politicsproprophey 3-4  News/Audio clips 3:33 The Edwards Notebook (bottom of every hour) 4-5    Alex Newman - Alex Newman is an American journalist and consultant who writes about economics, finance, banking, business, and politics for diverse publications in the United States and abroad. He studied journalism, economics and political science at the University of Florida.  In addition to his own consulting firm, Alex has worked in market research, marketing, strategy, research, information gathering and consulting for international companies, non-profit organizations and various political campaigns. He is also the co-author of a book exposing some of the problems with today's public education system.  5-6      Suzanne Langstroth is a fellow show host here on Freedomizer Radio, who does the Mad Scientists Exposed show.  She is a software engineer who spent most of her early career in the astronomy and meteorological fields, but then got busy raising her family, who are now grown. After wandering into anti-vax groups on social media a few years ago, Suzanne was shocked by the outpouring of Auschwitz-scale grief by thousands of parents whose children had been killed or crippled by vaccines.   She was also shocked awake by an ebola virus & vaccine scientist, who openly gloated on national TV about all the research money she was going to make.  Since then, Suzanne has not been able to shut up about fraud and weaponization of the sciences, particularly the vaccine industry.

Join Russell Mullin as he walks through the steps of installing a package of bees into a horizontal Langstroth beehive.   Thinking about starting your own apiary but don’t know where to begin? Find out how easy it is to become a backyard beekeeper at our Basics of Beekeeping workshop with Brushy Mountain Bee Farm! Friday, Sept. 14, at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Pa., in conjunction with the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR. Learn more and reserve your spot today.   https://www.motherearthnews.com/store/Offer/MMEPCIZ2   Music: Sunshine to my Door by Martin Stirrup For more videos, check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Youtube channel. Find us on these other social networks: FacebookTwitterPinterest  

Dawn Langstroth, is an artist adept in several expressive modes. She tells others through words, songs and pictures what it means to embrace life fully and creatively, letting randomness and creative curiosity open doors and pathways on the wondrous journey of becoming ourselves.She has made a career as a creative artist writing songs, painting, and making drawings that are as much emerging portraits of a forthright and independent identity as they are lyrics and pictures.As a painter, she takes the world she knows best – her friends, family, and the familiar landscapes of home – and interprets it in a direct manner letting line and colour convey her quizzical nature and probing sensibility.You can find Dawn Langstroth on Instagram @dawnlangstroth, Twitter @dawnlangstroth, Facebook, Dawn Langstroth and on her website dawnlangstroth.com. 

Against The Grain with show host Known As Sam Wednesday @ 4:30PM Pacific Time or 7:30PM Eastern Time Guest speakers featured every week whose knowledge, careers or lifestyle are based outside of societal engineered norms. This weeks special guest: Ed Augusts and Suzanne Langstroth (Pre-recorded show) Find me on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/againstthegrainradioshow/ My website here: https://www.againstthegrainrad.wixsite.com/home My blog here: https://steemit.com/@knownassam Listen Live at https://www.freedomizerradio.com or call in @ (319) 527 6208 4:30 PT / 7:30pm ET: Wednesdays

This week we are talking about new weed killer causes a stink, criminal elements, and New Zealand beekeeper found not guilty. This is Episode One hundred and Fourteen of our beekeeping podcast. Here is what is in the show (Now with Times) What's Happening at kiwimana - 01:16 Blog Recap - 11:57 Incredibly stupid things a beekeeper can do - 15:39 Is this the new Langstroth hive? Made out of concrete!! - 18:13 Taranaki beekeeper creates technology to trace honey to hive - 23:37 Organic weed killer proves pungent success - 25:28 Bees die in the cold after vandals open and kick hives - 30:18 New Zealand beekeeper found not guilty of smuggling cocaine hidden in suitcase - 34:35 Questions from you - 36:57 Random Review - 41:02 The Bonus Show - 44:08 The Next Show - Practical Beekeeping With Roger Patterson - 44:29 The Full Show Notes are Here:- http://kiwimana.co.nz/stinking-success-km114

Are you considering keeping bees? The Mother Earth News and Friends podcast producer Robert Riley sits down with Master Beekeepers Becky and Steve Tipton, and Ethnobotanist Dawn Combs, who is a veteran in the realm of "natural beekeeping." These experts share their knowledge and discuss differences to help Robert and other beeginners get up and going with their own colonies. Becky, Steve, and Dawn help prepare you for this upcoming adventure by covering the topics of bee species, swarming, pollinator-friendly plants, when to smoke your bees, tools of the trade, and much more. If you are an experienced beekeeper you may even learn a new technique.   Thinking about starting your own apiary but don’t know where to begin? Find out how easy it is to become a backyard beekeeper at our Basics of Beekeeping workshop with Brushy Mountain Bee Farm! Friday, Sept. 14, at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Pa., in conjunction with the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR. Learn more and reserve your spot today. https://www.motherearthnews.com/store/Offer/MMEPCIZ2     Follow the links below for topics mentioned in the podcast that may have piqued your interest: Beginning Beekeeping: What You Need to Know to Get StartedCommon Winter Beekeeping ProblemsNatural Beekeeping in Your BackyardUrban Beekeeping: Be a Backyard Beekeeper     Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Bookstore for more resources that may pique your interests! To see more podcasts, visit our Mother Earth News and Friends page! Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR page for an opportunity to see our podcast guest live!  The Mother Earth News and Friends podcast is a production of Ogden Publications.

Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Urban wheat crop grown on Narrabri footpath provides bumper harvest - Rural News - ABC News http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dXH   The Benefits of Perennial Wheat – Permie Flix http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e2D   Why a Topbar Beehive? – Bee Conscious http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dY3   Where did Nature go? – human meets nature http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e0A Rachel Carson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson   **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 23rd of January 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   This week begin a man who took steps to save himself time and grow food in one action. Suburbia is known for its nature strips or lawns from the fence to the road. We can either turn these into food forests or mow them to comply with the middle class, lawn is king paradigm. Guy Roth from Narrabri in western New South Wales had a problem.   Quote: I had nothing but khaki weed, pig weed and bindi-eye. End quote.   I might add here the Guy Roth is also known as Dr Roth cotton researcher.   So faced with this the Roth family ploughed and planted wheat! That was back May 2016. In December, they harvested. The crop took some losses from cockatoos and other parrots but in the end he harvested 20 kilos of grain. That’s about 44 pounds in the old money. The good Dr plans to make some bread from the harvest. A link to this story is, of course, in the show notes.   Staying with wheat, the blog Permie Fix has a video post from Washington State University on that little known variation of wheat, Perennial Wheat. This is something that’s come up in an early podcast, I’m sure but this post let’s you see the stuff. Kevin Murphy, Assistant Research Professor narrates the video and explains the benefits and the drawbacks of this plant. The benefits? Less ploughing, fossil fuel usage, spraying and fertiliser use. The drawbacks? Mainly yield. The video is about the need for further research to increase yields through crop selection, testing in different climates and so on. A quick two minute video, so worth a look.   While we’re on the subject of slightly out of the box ideas, The blog Bee Conscious brings the post: Why a Topbar Beehive? Topbar? I hear you ask. Yes. We are, I’m sure all familiar with the Langstroth hives dotted around the globe. It is the favourite of commercial beekeepers. A mature technology, it’s limits and strengths are well known. The great advantage of the topbar design is its closer approximation to natural conditions. That said, the greatest worry with a topbar is the possibility of cross combing. That is each vertical sheet of comb not remaining independent of its neighbour. If the space between cobs exceeds the “bee space” the bees will attempt to fill the space with comb. So the initial setup and measurements for a topbar are critical. That done, the output from a topbar hive is different from the langstroth. The latter is designed for honey production and very little else. The top bar still produces honey but also beeswax. In the langstroth the comb is supplied and the bees fill it. In the topbar a line of wax is provided and the bees build the comb of this. It also then available for harvesting. In the langstroth system the comb is uncapped and left in the frames after the honey is spun out.   I have read that it is possible for the langstroth frames to accumulate pesticides in the “permanent” frames whereas this can’t occur with the topbar system as the wax is replenished each year. But having to build combs means less energy/time for honey collection. You makes your choice and lives with the decision.   human meets nature brings us a post of great import: Where did Nature go? The image of Rachel Carson at the top of the post sets the tone. For those of you who may not have heard of Rachel Carson, she published Silent Spring back in the 1960s which showed the reality of the bioaccumulation of DDT in the environment and its effect on eggshell thickness amongst other things. I’ve placed a link in the show notes if you’d like to know more.   Back to Where did Nature go? The author, not political in nature, has noticed something from the past couple of years.   Quote: ---there has been three huge political issues in the last couple of years that even I couldn’t miss. The first was the Scottish independence referendum – I’m Scottish so that was very much unmissable! Second was Brexit and third is the ongoing drama of the impending Trump presidency.   More than the political back and forth, the in-fighting and one-upmanship I’ve been struck by the absence of one key issue, thee key issue, during these debates – the relationship between humans and nature and the worsening environmental crisis. End Quote.   Well might we ask: Where Did Nature Go? Particularly with the removal of all mentions of climate change from the White House web site on the day of inauguration. Yet the post ends on a positive note which I think we all need at the moment. Quote: Nature just isn’t sexy, yet; but I don’t believe that people don’t care, they do. In many cases our hands feel tied because of the societal and power structures that we exist within. We are at a tipping point, things are changing rapidly; things can change for the better,  but only if we give it the attention it requires. It’s said that whatever we give attention to will grow. Let’s hope that the political spectacle will soon calm down and our attention will be drawn back to the most fundamental of human concerns – our very survival, and the survival of all that enchants our lives in this place. End Quote.   I would disagree with “Nature just isn’t sexy” but otherwise I concur. Let’s get out there and hassle our elected representatives until they have no choice but to respond. We seem to be living in a time of change so let’s drive it!   And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast.   If you’ve liked what you heard,could please follow the link in the show notes and vote for World Organic News in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here Thanks in advance.   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week. **** Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Urban wheat crop grown on Narrabri footpath provides bumper harvest - Rural News - ABC News http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dXH   The Benefits of Perennial Wheat – Permie Flix http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e2D   Why a Topbar Beehive? – Bee Conscious http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dY3   Where did Nature go? – human meets nature http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e0A Rachel Carson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

This week we are talking about Bee friendly Gardens, are two queens better than one and a swarm shuts down School? This is Episode Eighty Three of our beekeeping podcast. This week we talk about:- Two-queen systems yield lots of honey How to Make your Garden Bee Friendly Girl next door honey blog Langstroth vs. Top bar hive 50,000 honeybees found during construction of Birmingham transit facility Moncton researchers abuzz over possible arthritis treatment Swarms of bees shut down Waikato school The Full show notes are HERE  

Halloween!; The mighty Jack Bruce; Jollofgate and Jamie Oliver; Poltergeist - the speaker; Double, double, toil and trouble; Trick or Tweet; An interview with Neil Mullarkey; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Gail Langstroth is interviewed on Art and Inspiration with William Rock. Gail is a eurythmist, poet and artist and has performed all over the world. In this interview, Gail Langstroth articulates the art and healing capacities of eurythmy. She also tells of her teaching in a remote part of Uganda and recites a poem that powerfully invokes her experience.

Speakers from around the world; Galileo at the West Wing; BBC archives; John Grisham;  What doesn't make an exceptional speech; How re-bookable are you?; Unique content can be priceless; An interview with Tim Campbell; Music from Dawn Langstroth

UK Blog Awards; Virtually in New Zealand; Brewdog bites; Bob Hoskins; Max Clifford; Never ever wing it; How to avoid being Paxoed; Be Original, Be Relevant, Be There; An interview with Gered Mankowitz; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Episode Guide: Local Hive Report, Honey Tunnel, Honey and Allergies, Foraging Electrical Charges, Langstroth on Sugar, Warming Supers, Plastic Frames, EcoBatteries, Seeley NJBA presentation, closing comments

Hints and tips for media appearances, speaking and social media. This week; Happy Easter; Memories of the GSS; Don Hales; Sex Pistols; Farewell Flip; Be a fussy speaker; What is News?; It's all about sharing; An interview with Kay Ross; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Hints and tips for media appearances, speaking and social media. This week; Asking for stories; An early start; Build your social media muscle; Herper Lee; Missing an open goal; After-dinner speaking; The killers; Think different; An interview with Carl Leighton-Pope; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Hints and tips for media appearances, speaking and social media. This week; An Election; Win Champagne; Stuart Hall; Aliens in Jordan; Could I have your attention?; Allow me to make my point; Making the most of Facebook; An interview with Jane Milton; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Hints and tips for media appearances, speaking and social media. This week; Apple iPad; Marthas and Arthurs; The Big Event; Billy Connolly; Tesco; It happened to me; Can I see the story before you run it?; The Dunbar Number; An Interview with Rory Cellan-Jones; Music from Dawn Langstroth

Hints and tips for media appearances, speaking and social media. This week; Streets of London; A Social Media Experiment; Teddy Pendergrass; The Buffs; They think it's all over; What is News?; Listen up; An interview with David Dunkley Gymah; Music from Dawn Langstroth