New World Carniolan, Russian Winter Nucs and a Swarm
This past Friday and Saturday Mary sold additional Carniolan and Russian Winter Nucs. Then on Sunday we moved out some of our Winter Nucs hives to a new property, then …
Working with Honeybees
NJ Winter Nucs are Building Up
Our winter nucs passed the NJ state bee inspector’s inspection, two weeks ago this coming Monday. While conducting his inspection we discussed nuc pricing with him. We know what price …
Apiary Record Keeping with FileMaker Pro
We moved our Apiary field paper records to an iPad 2 FileMaker Go relational database in 2011. We decided to use a relational database record keeping system because of its …
How To Prepare Fondant for Winter Feeding
We are coming in to our two toughest winter months, February and March, for the honeybee. Yet it was 62 degrees on Wednesday and 48 degress on Thursday – quite …
Beekeeping Internship Listed on NCAT Web Site
We are still working on filling our Beekeeping Internship position for the upcoming 2012 season. For the past 5 years we have listed our internship position on the NCAT Sustainable …
Beekeeping Intern Wanted for 2012
Each beekeeping season we have had the services of a young person interested in gaining experience in beekeeping. An extra set of willing hands is greatly appreciated in the bee …
Beekeeping Intern Moves to North Carolina
I am very delighted to have worked alongside Ed and Mary Kosenski at E&M Gold Beekeepers, LLC since this past April. I wanted to work with them because I was …
Honeybee Hive Mouse Guards
In addition to preparing our winter nucs for the upcoming winter we also visit our out yard production hives to get them ready for the winter. Since we use screen …
Carniolan Winter Nucs prepared before Nor’easter arrives
Last week we completed our Carniolan Winter Nuc preparations. During the week we moved the Winter Nucs foot-by-foot into distinct groups of Nucs. We built, painted and branded new medium …
New Beekeepers and treating honeybees
New beekeepers just starting out with their very first hive most likely have started it from a 2 or 3lb.package. Most package producers don’t select their queens for the same …
USDA Honey Bee Pests and Diseases Survey
Back in late July, while attending the EAS conference in Rhode Island, we heard Dr. Jeff Pettis make a presentation in which he described the 2011 USDA Honey Bee Pests …
Post Hurricane Irene Bee Yard Inspections
As Hurricane Irene passed over us, which was around 8:00 pm, Saturday, we lost power to our home. After 32 hours our electricity was restored and at that point we …
