Podcasts about treatment free beekeeping

This topic has caused a great deal of conflict between beekeepers and the general public. How do I define it, how do you?

It's the goal not the process. Is it ok to use treatments for mites when you get started? It may surprise you to know that many successful strategies do start with some limited mite treatments including the Darwinian black box technique.

Can we just all get along?

In our last episode on beekeeping, we jump into what a maintenance practice can look like based on the science we have today. What do we need to support our bees, but short-term and long-term and what techniques do we have in our toolbox to be successful?   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: Keeping Bees with a Smile: Principles and Practice of Natural Beekeeping Book by Fedor Lazutin 1 https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1544&postnum=1544 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351371008_The_production_of_melezitose_in_honeydew_and_its_impact_on_honey_bees_Apis_mellifera_L 3 https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/bumble-bees-hymenoptera-apidae-bombus-terrestris-collecting-honey 4 https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/BM2017.0089 https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/fne10-694/

Dr. John Kefuss began experimenting with the possibility of breeding resistant bees before it was known it could be done. He promotes his "Bond Method" of selection as both more healthy and economical than chemical treatment for both bees and their keepers. We discuss his evolution on beekeeping after practicing beekeeping across the world, from both Americas & Europe, and what 50 years of beekeeping, 25 of which treatment free, has taught him about this timeless practice.  Check out his recent study from 2015 on treatment-free beekeeping: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00218839.2016.1160709 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   

If you'd like to watch this interview on YouTube, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/IlORXDoqm9c To learn more about how Wes catches swarms and keeps his bees in Layens hives, you can check him out here: https://www.youtube.com/@SecureAcresNaturalBees If you want to stand out at the next bee club meeting, check out my eye-catching bee related t-shirts and merch here: https://swarmstead.myspreadshop.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bruce-rodriguez/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bruce-rodriguez/support

In this episode I speak with treatment free Master Beekeeper Angela Tollerson from Montana. We cover many topics including brood breaks, commercial beekeeping, and the often misunderstood concepts of selection for unassisted survival. To see the video version of this conversation, please visit "The Mite Bomb Beekeeping Podcast" on YouTube. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bruce-rodriguez/message

September in the Garden Show Notes September is the month of mellow mists and fruitfulness and in this month's Dig It podcast Peter Brown and Chris Day look at how the gradual change in seasons is beginning to affect what we harvest, plant and sow in our gardens.Sowing a new lawn, a look at the best edible flowers and how to get the best from your green waste are discussed. Plus, a look at the different cyclamen options available at the Garden Centre, keeping hydrangeas in tip top colour and battling with leaves in our ponds. Buckingham Garden Centre hosts its special Apple and Honey Show Weekend over 25th and 26th September so we find out more about this annual celebration of apples and the Bucks County Honey Show on the Sunday.6th September is National Read A Book Day https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-read-a-book-day-2021/ Peter's read is Treatment Free Beekeeping by David Heaf (published by IBRA & NBB)Chris's book is Bulbs For All Seasons by Kathy Brown (publisher Aquamarine)Check out Bramblecrest's Portobello Double Hanging Cocoon Chair - a perfect reading spot for your garden!Apple and Honey Show Weekend 25th & 26th September (10am-4pm, both days), Gerry Edwards, The Mid Shires Orchard Group, BBOWT, plus Bucks County Honey Show on the Sunday.RHS Chelsea Flower Show 21-26th September. The BBC will be covering it as usual.Recycle Week 20-26th September Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Peter has been lifting his ‘Desiree' potatoes from his allotment. For more information on blight resistant potato varieties, please refer to our earlier Potato podcastWhat to sow / plant now:Veggies Broad bean ‘Aquadulce' and ‘Aquadulce Claudia' and Pea ‘Feltham First' and ‘Douce Provence', Radish and Turnips (for Christmas). Planting onion sets in autumn means you will get an earlier crop next year. Choose a variety that's ideal for autumn sowing, such as ‘Autumn Champion' ‘Radar' or ‘Senshyu Yellow'. Salad crops mustard leaf, winter salad mixes, or mizuna. Winter lettuces such as ‘Winter Density' can be sown under glass. Spring cabbages and spinach can be sown now for picking next spring.Edible flowers Borage, Cornflower (seed sow now), Courgette, Squash, Marrow and Pumpkin (deep fried in batter), Lavender, Nasturtium (seed), Hollyhocks, Pansies (seed), Pinks, Pot Marigolds, Rose, Sage, and Sweet violets.Comfrey which is sterile (so no free seeding) is Symphytum x uplandicum Bocking 14Florist cyclamen vs Mini cyclamen vs Hardy cyclamen (available in Garden Centre)Blue Hydrangeas, you need a good quality ericaceous (acid) compost to keep them blue and if you have pink Hydrangeas then a Multi-purpose John Innes Compost is fine.Westland Hydrangea colourant (500g) available at Garden Centre. Hydrangea feed for blue flowersSowing a new lawn from seed and the types of grass seed available.Composting bins and GarottaBird food and suet balls. Useful linksHow to make comfrey tea https://www.ruralsprout.com/comfrey-liquid-fertilizer/ Music by Chiltern Music Therapy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of the best ways you can help the bees is by planting food for the bees! Claire Jones, a garden designer and beekeeper, joins me on this episode. Learn what to plant for bees, why bees need flowers and which plants will help the bees the most. Claire also explains what grows well in containers, other places you can plant flowers other than your backyard and more. Show starts at 12:55 Help us out! Fill out our Treatment Free Beekeeping questionnaire at https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/treatmentfree Resources: Garden Diaries Blog - https://thegardendiaries.blog/ Claire's Honey Soap Recipe - https://thegardendiaries.blog/2013/01/07/diy-soap/ National Wildlife Service Native Plant Finder - https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder Million Pollinator Garden Challenge - http://millionpollinatorgardens.org/ Claire's etsy page - https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGardenDiaries?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=182225449 Links to all of these pages and Claire's pollinator posters can be found at https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/gardendiaries.  Free Bee Book! https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/freebeebook

TREAT OR NOT TO TREAT? Some lessons are learned the hard way. Join us for a prior conversation where we question our pest management practice and talk about our experience with Treatment Free Beekeeping. BEES FOR SALE!!Greg is bringing up bees from Don The Fat Bee Man!!To order package bees and nucs visit http://www.naturesimagefarm.com/product-category/bees/

Originally published March 12, 2016 Jacqueline Freeman and I will be featured during the Soil Health Summit hosted by the TableTopFarmer starting December 12, 2018. To learn more sign up here! (http://soilhealthsummit.tabletopfarmer.com/)           Treatment-free Beekeeping     relationship building treatment-free beekeeping (http://amzn.to/1SEf0A1) or now on (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast) audible.com (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast) If you’ve never tried  audible (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast)  today! (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast) The Song of Increase by Jacqueline Freeman  (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast)   JACQUELINE FREEMAN is a pioneer in the emerging field of natural beekeeping. A biodynamic farmer, she is gifted in perceiving nature intelligences, particularly honeybees, and has spent many years working alongside them with an open and prayerful heart. Her work with the bees has uncovered how bees fulfill broader roles in the hive and in nature. Jacqueline teaches bee classes at her farm and honeybee sanctuary in Washington state. “Queen of the Sun” (http://www.queenofthesun.com)  showed her caring work as a gentle swarm rescuer. Her bee articles appear in national magazines and anthologies. She is a featured speaker at conferences for organic and treatment-free beekeeping, permaculture and sustainable agricultural. In 2013, the Dominican Republic hired her to work with rural beekeepers to help them create healthy bees through respectful and treatment-free beekeeping. Jacqueline’s ongoing bee work is updated on the  website: SpiritBee.com (http://spiritbee.com) . Jacqueline and her husband Joseph live on their biodynamic farm in southwest Washington. (from amazon) Friendly Haven Rise Farm (http://friendlyhaven.com) Where Spirit and Nature Meet Our farm is located in the tiny village (pop. 2000) of Venersborg in southwest Washington. We have beef and dairy cows, dairy goats, layers and broiler chickens, seasonal turkeys and many honey bees. The farm is a bee sanctuary with native pollinator hedgerows and blooming bee pastures. We grow a dozen kinds of apples, grapes, berries and other fruit. We’ve got a vegetable garden and two greenhouses so we can grow food year round. We grow and bale our own hay and always have a construction project going.  Living on a working farm is a real pleasure and even when the work is hard, we feel blessed to be in partnership with this land. We work with joyful hearts and open minds in gratitude for the many lessons our good farm teaches.  Hunter Lyndon told me about today’s guest in episode 64 said ” She’s an amazing bee woman in Washington who you can watch in the video documentary movie “ Queen of the Sun (http://www.queenofthesun.com) .”” So wonderful to hear Hunter is the one who connected us. He’s really sweet, everyone who knows him as great things to say about him 1. Tell us a little about yourself. Farming for 15 years, bought our 100 year old farm 15 years ago. Were second owners, it’s always been organic, and it was because of frugality more then a political action. Then we came in, we did not intend to become farmers, at all, that was not the direction we intended to go in at all. My husband works with horses, and I run a school for people who want to work with horses. And that’s what we thought we’d be doing. But once we bought this farm, we bought it because we’re both from small towns in New England and we both want to move to the west, but we wanted to live in a small town again. But once we bought this farm, it’s funny This farm wanted to put itself back together again and be a farm. I got started in chickens because one day my neighbor down the street raises heirloom chickens, Brenda, showed up at my... Support this podcast

Shane Gebauer is the President and Partner at Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, the catalog and online bee supply company based in Moravian Falls, NC.  Shane has been keeping bees for many years and speaks nationally on beekeeping.  You can also see Shane on several Brushy Mountain YouTube videos on various topics.  In this Beekeeping Today Podcast, Shane, Kim and Jeff discuss the concept of 'treatment free' beekeeping, its challenges and applicability. This is an enlightening back and forth that is sure to fan the flames of everyone involved in this important and current debate. Today's episode also includes a listener's question and answer by Dan Conlon regarding defensiveness of Russian honey bees. Kim wraps up the show with his InnerCovered. This episode is brought to you by Wicwas Press. Wicwas Press is the publisher of beekeeping how-to and scientific books. We thank Wicwas for their support of our podcast. We 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"  

Dr. Robyn Underwood is doing a research project testing the differences between conventional beekeeping, IPM, and Treatment-Free Beekeeping methods.  In this episode, I talk about some of the background behind the project.Watch Robyn's talk about her project here:  https://youtu.be/zcw5OZt49g4Robyn's website:  lopezuribelab.com/comb If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at  http://www.patreon.com/tfb  Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world.  Thanks. Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast:  http://tfb.podbean.com Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/ Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net Parker Bees Website:  http://www.parkerbees.com Parker Bees Blog:  http://parkerbees.blogspot.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping

Travis Ulbrich is a Beekeeper and Fireman from Alabama, he is a well known Bee Rescuer that is often seen on his Yappy Beeman YouTube Channel. He is also one of founding Bee Hooligans on the Bee Smart podcast. We talk about Yappy Philosophy to removing and keeping Honey Bees in Alabama. This show is full of some amazing Beekeeping and Bee removal tips. Here is what you will discover What does Yappy think of Treatment Free Beekeeping 00:02:40 Message from Estonia about Yappy's Videos 00:04:26 The Origin of Beesifrus (The Original Beekeeper!) 00:06:41 How did you get started in beekeeping 00:10:43 There are easier ways to get your bees than a cutout 00:15:14 What did Yappy Learn about Swarms at Bud gathering 00:18:11 Has Yappy Heard of those Audio Swarm Detectors ? 00:20:48 Are any other members of Yappy's family involved in Beekeeping? 00:22:54 Does Yappy ever wear a veil? 00:24:37 Have africanized bees reached Alabama yet? 00:26:46 When cutting a wall around bees, does the vibration annoy them? 00:33:25 Does Yappy have any funny Beekeeping experiences 00:35:04 If Yappy could travel back in time, what would he tell himself? 00:41:55 Does Yappy Reframe Honey Frames from Cutouts 00:45:33 How do you tell when a honey flow is on 00:50:08 Why is it so important to develop your own Beekeeping Management Program 00:52:20 Why Beekeepers need a second job to support it 00:59:12 Why a package of bees is probably not a good place to start Treatment Free Beekeeping 00:59:56 How can you get in touch with Yappy? 01:06:53 Full Show Notes are:- http://kiwi.bz/yappy

This episode is an encore presentation of a talk I gave at the Clark County Beekeeper's Association in Southern Washington.  It is about the reasons for and benefits of Treatment-Free Beekeeping, specifically allowing colonies to die that cannot survive on their own. Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast  http://tfb.podbean.com Become a patron of the podcast:  http://www.patreon.com/tfb Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/ Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum  http://forum.tfbees.net Parker Bees Website  http://www.parkerfarms.biz Parker Bees Blog http://parkerbees.blogspot.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC_Yb2d_9M09hcaWlghVZDg

Solomon Parker is a treatment free beekeeper from Colorado.  Solomon has been beekeeping since 2003 and has recently started the Treatment free beekeeping podcast. Full Show Notes are available HERE

Hi this is Episode forty nine of our beekeeping podcast, This week we are talking to Michael Bush. Michael is a Treatment free Beekeeper / Author and speaker from Nebraska. Full Show Notes are available HERE    

Full Episode: Hosted by Carter Wallace and Rishi Kumar This episode first broadcast on April 11, 2013 This weeks segments: