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 winter, and move them to small 5-frame boxes and then add an overwintered New World Carniolan queen. We make sure …

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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 for wedding favors and baby shower favors. Our friend Jon Peters of Jon Peters Art and Home created this gorgeous …

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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. Lastly we are continuing our queen rearing operation and next year our goal is to produce 1,000 queens. Since 2003 …

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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 local beekeeping organization; our method has been slightly modified from Kirk’s. In the early Spring winter nucs which have survived …

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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 listed our Beekeeping internship on the NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Project Internship and Apprenticeships Web Site. Our Beekeeping Internship is a great …

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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 we have had the services of a young person interested in gaining experience in beekeeping. An extra set of willing …

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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 for typical weather events in advance by adding extra heavy blocks on tops, and solid bottoms below, plus feeding if …

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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. You can see our first FileMaker Pro Beekeeping Database post at post#1. The following is an iPad screen capture from …

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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 Mary is comfortable using it in the field. So far this season Mary has added over a thousand records to …

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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 be present in the hive. Place the cage containing the queen into the queenless hive, just above the brood area. …

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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 my weed-wacking I noticed this small cluster of bees wedged in between two of our wind wall cinder blocks. I …

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