The Peace Bee Farmer

A Minnesota beekeeper checks his hive and finds plenty of bees and ample stored honey. Shortly afterward, cold weather set in for severa...

Fall and spring hive management in top bar hives is similar to that of Langstroth hives. Bees tend to build their brood nest in a top ba...

Beekeepers are making preparations for adding new colonies in the spring. While most will house their bees in modern bee hives, some wil...

The annual Farm to Table Conference held in Memphis at Rhodes College is designed to bring together farmers and those who buy and use th...

There are several milestones in the beekeeping year that we follow to give us an indication of what the bees are doing. Some of these mi...

The bee hive in the fall is full of bees, brood, and food. However, by mid-winter, the hive is partially empty. Short-lived summer bees ...

A beekeeper in Minnesota is carefully measuring the temperature inside his bee hives. He recorded a daytime temperature of 70 degrees Fa...