Beekeeping at FiveApple
Talk, tips & how-to on sustainable beekeeping from the North Carolina mountains of Southern Appalachia.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 133
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Listener questions; Sugar Brick Recipes (40)
Show notes, posts & links at https://www.patreon.com/fiveapple
Free sugar block recipe mentioned is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/feeding-bees-in-31022420
Quilt gallery post mentioned (a weekly…
First Interview! Mark Smith of Flatwoods Bee Farm (39)
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i didn’t get the chance to add an intro and wrap up but will get better at all this. :-) Mark started with bees i…
More Winter Prep: Reading on Insulation and Ventilation (38)
Show notes are available to everyone and include link to the online article I read from -- you can find it here: www.patreon.com/fiveapple
WINTER PREP: The high-speed Overview (37)
Book Review Part 2 - Selected Reading (36)
Book Review Part 2 - Selection read from Chapter 3 "Tolerant Stock." Continuation of last episode's discussion of the excellent book "Keeping Bees Alive: Sustainable Beekeeping Essentials" by Lawrenc…
Book Review: Keeping Bees Alive by Lawrence John Conner ( 35 )
Discussion of this interesting book by Wicwas Press. (Part 1 of 2)
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About this current rabbit hole (34)
Some random chat about what I’m reading and studying for a future episode; stress free alcohol wash hack from Jeff; bee barn teaser; missing Kevin; the usual wanderings.
Feed them if they need it (and maybe for other reasons) (33)
Taking the simple feeding of sugar syrup for hives you find too light to make it....and complicating it with things to tweak? Guilty. Part 1.
Test results, Winter Prep part A (032)
About that NC Journeyman test. Winter prep: building population vs adding weight.
After the NCSBA conference, testing, gut microbes... (031)
Random items from the conference, geeking out on gut microbes...
Reading: Activities and Behavior of Honey Bees (030)
Selections from Norman E Gary, chapter 8 of Hive & The Honey Bee (Dadant).
Also:
The observation hive I’m trying out:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/19583341/indoor-full-size-bee-keeping-observation
Mi…
Avoiding hive robbers of the bee and human kind (029)
Gadget Garage with nice robber screen and other handy things (thanks Jeff!) https://youtu.be/xWA49Oy5Skw Photo of the Z fold hardware cloth robber screen similar to what I use — especially on all nuc…
EFB recovery; Late Summer is critical to overwintering, more. (028)
I’m happy to report good news on the two hives that had EFB. Also: Late summer is a critical decision/action window for your hives. Some things to consider, plan and prevent...
Listener Mail: Top bars, hives without queens, swarm cells to nucs (027)
Top bars, natural comb, podcasting errors, hives without a Queen (apparently), queens from swarm cells — Listener Mail edition. First part recorded in the morning, 2nd part late at night....you may n…
Summer bee plants, selected reading 2/2, Caron/Connor (026)
Continuing with the reading of a selection on Summer and Fall bee plants.
Summer bee plants, selected reading 1, Caron/Connor (025)
Show notes and links to come.
How Many?!?! Adventures with virgin queens (024)
Can you have too many new queens? Yes! But who can refuse the challenge to give it a try? Not me. Alternative title: Why my post office knows me by name....
European Foulbrood (023)
European foulbrood is a bummer to discover in a hive. It could be worse though. Talking through some options.
Bee yard updates, Summer Splits (021)
Finally, a way to do a cut down split WITHOUT finding the queen! Thanks to Tina Sebasteyan in the May 2019 American Bee Journal.