Largest Award Winning Honey Show In North America At The Topsfield Fair The largest Award Winning Honey Show in North America takes place every year at the Topsfield Fair. The show is put on by the Essex County Beekeepers Association … Continue reading →
September 30, 2012
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Raw Local Honey For Sale at the Topsfield Fair Bee House Every year the Essex County Beekeepers Association puts on a magnificent honey and beekeeping show at the Topsfield Fair. It is the largest honey show in North America and … Continue reading →
September 6, 2012
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Top Bar Hives With Les Crowder At the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference, Les Crowder gave a talk on top bar hives. Les has been keeping bees for over 30 years. He used to work in commercial beekeeping using Langstroth hives … Continue reading →
August 3, 2012
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Microbes & Bees At the Beginners Intensive segment of the Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference Laurie Herboldsheimer of Golden Rule Honey talked about her intense passion for the importance of the microbes that live in the honeybee colony. She has done … Continue reading →
Top Bar Hive Honey Harvest With Sam Comfort At the 2012 Treatment Free Beekeeper’s Conference in Leominster, MA, one of the things shown was a top bar hive honey harvest. After seeing this I was sold on top bar hives … Continue reading →
Milkweed Hive and Spot the Queen I finally got around to naming one of my swarm hives. Actually a reader and fellow beekeeper, Mary Lou Chase, suggested the name because her bees were foraging on the blossoms at the time. … Continue reading →