Starting Your Beehive
Beekeeping Advocacy

More Than Just Your Own Bees The “save the bees” mantra has been with us…

Involving Family and Friends in Beekeeping

Beekeeping is enjoyed by individuals everywhere and, for many, represents an escape from the pace…

Practical Guidance for The New Beekeepers

With your bees duly installed in their new beehive, you can call yourself a beekeeper!…

An Overview of Obtaining Bees for a Beehive

Introduction With your beehive set up and installed in position, we’ve reached an exciting moment!…

Preparing and Installing Your Beehive

Introduction It’s time! You have read a bunch, you’ve ordered your hive and maybe you’ve pre-ordered your…

Questions the New Beekeeper Should Answer First

Starting out as a beekeeper is exciting, fun, and maybe just a tad scary! But…

Homemade bee feeder
How to Feed Honeybee Colonies

Now that you’ve learned more about “When to Feed” and “What to Feed” your honeybees…

Honey
Feeding Honeybees -What is “Ash Content”?

We recently received a question from Darryl that was prompted by one of our PerfectBee…

Pollen
What to Feed Honeybee Colonies

In our recent Snippet “When to Feed Honeybee Colonies”, we discussed the importance of knowing…

Capped and uncapped cells
When to Feed Honeybee Colonies

In a perfect beekeeping world, our bees would consistently find what they need in the…

Tips for Installing New Honeybee Colonies

One of the most exciting steps for any beekeeper is installing a new honeybee colony…

Social Bees
Know where to source your bees? Think about that now!

New beekeepers starting their beehives this spring are quite rightly focused on their equipment and…

Beehives in a field
Starting With Multiple Hives

With a single hive, we lose many options as beekeepers One question all beginner beekeepers…

Homemade bee feeder
An Introduction to Feeding Honeybees

Of all the world’s creatures, the honey bee is one of the most resourceful. The…

Marked Queen bee
Marking a Queen Bee

Introduction When inspecting your beehive, checking it is queen-right should be at the top of…

Honey Bee Cooling
A Guide to Beehive Entrance Management

Bees in the wild make good use of whatever entrances to a space they can…

Beehive on slope
Where to place a beehive

Once you have a hive, you may be tempted simply to set where it’s the…

Bees flying into hive
Beekeeping Myths for the New Beekeeper to Question

It’s tough to say whether the new beekeeper of today has it any easier than…

Beekeeper checking bees
An Introduction to the Beehive Inspection

With the beehive up and running and your bees starting to establish their home, the role…

Honeycomb
An Introduction to the Brood Nest

With your first bees safely installed in their new home, it’s time for the beekeeper…

Bee swarm on a tree branch
Capturing and Installing a Swarm of Bees

Are you a new beekeeper or about to be one? Let’s start with a simple…

Beekeeper and bees
Contrarian Positions for New Beekeepers to Consider

Oh, the simple life of a beekeeper. That peaceful, relaxing closeness to nature, enjoying bees…

Remove the First Nuc Frame
Obtaining and Installing a Honeybee Nucleus Colony

Introduction For many years, the ready availability of packages of bees meant that they were…

Removing candy from queen cage
Obtaining and Installing a Package of Honeybees

Introduction Of all the memories you will create as a beekeeper, few will be as…

Bee Package
Purchasing and installing your bees

Introduction With the hive set to go and all appropriate gear purchased and waiting, it’s…

Beekeeper checking hives
What Bees Need To Thrive In Your Location

You’ve decided to take the leap and become an Urban Beekeeper. I applaud you. It…

Beekeepers Examining Honeycomb
Planning and purchasing your beehive

When to Start a Beehive So you’re ready to start your first hive! Congratulations! There’s…

Marked Queen bee
Buying bees

Not as difficult as you might imagine Establishing a beehive is not as easy as…

Bees going into hive
When To Start a Beehive

The activity of bees and their lives are strongly influenced by the changing seasons. Each…

Beehives
Your Beehive : Stage Summary

Introduction Stage 2 of our course, Your Beehive, covered three sections: Beehives and AccessoriesEquipment and…

Beekeeping classes
Your New Beehive: The First Two Weeks

Excitement and Nervousness Beekeeping is a special and fascinating pastime. While bees continue to teach…

Bee Brush
A checklist for the new beekeeper

Introduction The PerfectBee 3-Step plan to your first beehive walks you from your initial curiosity, through the…

Beekeepers
How and when to move a beehive

Moving a hive full of bees, comb, and honey is not an easy task and…

Beekeeper with smoker
A beekeeper’s journey: Part 3 – Package bees or swarm?

Sarah chose her hive, she decided where to locate it. Now it’s time to obtain…

Hives and beekeepers
A beekeeper’s journey: Part 2 – Locating the hive

Sarah considers her beehive location – grade, environmental protections, flight directions and permanence.