NJ Nucleus Colonies
When making NJ Local Nucleus Colonies while coming into spring we take frames of new brood and eggs from strong New World Carniolan hives, which have made it through the …
Working with Honeybees
E&M Gold Beekeepers New Honeybee Video
View our new Honeybee Video We’re so delighted with this wonderful Honeybee video featuring E+M Wedding Favors’ own Mary, our bee yard, and our delicious raw NJ honey and all-natural beeswax products …
Beekeeping Business Goals for 2014
Now that Ed has retired we have begun enlarging our operation to 200 hives. In addition we are reworking our business and marketing plans to reflect our new business goals. …
Winter Nuc Preparation
For the last four years we have been using the following Winter Nuc preparation method. We first heard about preparing Winter Nucs during a talk Kirk Webster made at a …
Beekeeping Internship for 2014
We are taking applications for our Beekeeping Internship for 2014. You will learn how to manage the Carniolan honeybee and how to rear queens. For the past 6 years we have …
Honeybee Winter Feeding with Sugar Candy
Charlie Toth in Somerset, NJ has been making & selling 5-pound hard sugar-candy blocks for Honeybee winter feeding. He wraps his blocks in butcher paper. The best way to add …
2013 Beekeeping Internship
We will be taking beekeeping internship applications for the 2013 season for an intern to assist us in all areas of our beekeeping business For the last five beekeeping seasons …
Winter & Honeybees
The winter may be the most challenging time for honeybees in the northern climates. This winter has already thrown more at us than most years do. We try to prepare …
FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database – part #2
FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database – part #2 Listed below is an example of the type report we can generate from our FileMaker Pro Relational Beekeeping Database. This is post #2. …
FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database
Our beekeeping operation record keeping has been moved completely over to a relational database located on an iPad. Since last season we have updated and improved the database so that …
Successful Honeybee Queen Introduction
Successful Honeybee Queen Introduction The first and most important factor in queen introduction is to have a queenless environment. No mated queens, no virgin queens and no queen cells should …
New NWC Carniolan Queen Rescued
It was 7:00pm and I had just arrived at our NWC Carniolan Breeding yard. Fog was just beginning to roll in as I began weed-wacking the yard. As I completed …
