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About Us
Garreson Publishing is a small company in Upstate NY. We also keep bees and sell lumber.
Printed books will be mailed to you within a week. No personal information collected during ordering will be sold or shared outside Garreson Publishing.Articles by Category
- Beekeeping Charities (4)
- Beekeeping Events (5)
- Beekeeping FAQ (4)
- Beekeeping History (5)
- Beekeeping Humor (1)
- Beekeeping Podcast (2)
- Beekeeping Products (8)
- Beekeeping Books (7)
- Beehive Plans (3)
- Beekeeping Books (7)
- Books (1)
- Business of Beekeeping (14)
- Gary Sieling (11)
- Honey (5)
- Honeybees in unusual places (1)
- Natural/Organic Beekeeping (4)
- Peter Sieling (9)
- Regional Beekeeping (27)
- African Beekeeping (5)
- Kenyan Beekeeping (2)
- Nigerian Beekeeping (1)
- Ugandan Beekeeping (1)
- California Beekeeping (4)
- Philadelphia Beekeeping (5)
- Upstate NY Beekeeping (10)
- African Beekeeping (5)
- Uncategorized (11)
- Upstate NY Beekeeping (1)
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Recent Articles
- Honey Bees: Friend or Foe?
- Back to School and Back to Good Food
- Pete Sieling publishes article on saving brood comb
- Bee Culture starts new bee blog
- Gardening Organic: Mulch, Compost and Pest Control
- The Local Farmers Market – A Lot More Than Just Great Food
- Book Review: Storey’s Guide to Beekeeping
- Book Review: The Honeybee Hobbyist, by Norman Gary
- Removing a Honeybee Colony from an Old House
- Photos of Pollinators in the Adirondacks
- World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7 Billion
- Farming the Cities, Feeding an Urban Future
- Honey Grilled Chicken
- National Academy of Science makes publications available for free, including research on North American Pollinators
- Buying Foreclosed Farmland- a checklist
- Photos of honey bottling process
- Organic Agriculture’s Resilience Shows Untapped Potential
- Penn State Leads Honey Bee Health Initiative
- Garreson Publishing to provide free websites for bee clubs
- Removing Honey Bee Colonies from Buildings
- Book Review: Fruitless Fall
- Interview with Mustapha Nadaji, Nigerian Beekeeper
- Honey Bee Costumes from “Jungle Book”
- Ugandan Beekeepers Fund Education through Beekeeping
- Bait Hive Workshop by Peter Sieling
- Audio of lecture by Dr. Thomas D. Seeley, Honeybee biologist at Cornell University
- Ugandan Beekeeper Explains Role of Foreign Aid in Non-Profits
- Researcher in Kenya changes lives through beekeeping education
- Audio of talk by Randy Oliver, of ScientificBeekeeping.com
- Garreson Publishing Releases Book on Bait Hives
- Adobe Calls Bees Clutter
- Philadelphia Beekeepers Starting Youth Program
- Reviews available on Garreson Publishing
- California Man Brings Bees to Your Home
- Peter Sieling speaks at Finger Lakes Beekeeping Club
- Garreson Publishing adds plans for Excelsior Hive Covers
- On Purchasing Honey
- 2010 Philadelphia Honey Festival
- Garreson Publishing adds cupboard plans
- Garreson Publishing Presents on Beehive Construction at ESHPA Conference
- Organic Beekeeping Training Course
- Garreson Publishing Newsletter, November 2010
- Hotel Beehive!
- Garreson Publishing adds plans for a window mounted observation hive
- Viewing L.L. Langstroth’s Papers at the Philadelphia Honey Festival
- My Experience with Natural Beekeeping
- Three frequent questions about Beehive Frames
- A Brief History of the Top Bar Hive
- Peter Extracting Honey
- Plans featured on WoodworkersWorkshop.com
Archives
Category Archives: Peter Sieling
Removing a Honeybee Colony from an Old House
by Pete Sieling The bees lived in the house of an 87 year old woman. The daughter lived next door. A grandson had a bachelor pad in the old mud room*. There were some problems with grandma, hard of hearing, turning up … Continue reading
Removing Honey Bee Colonies from Buildings
by Pete One way to acquire bees is by removing them from a building. You should have experience handling bees before tackling this sort of job. You should charge for the removal to cover your time, with the bees being a … Continue reading
Bait Hive Workshop by Peter Sieling
Bait Hives constitute an important component of your beekeeping equipment. Use them to catch bees to replace dead colonies, increase your colonies, and minimize your own swarm losses. Workshop topics will include what bees look for when selecting a new … Continue reading
Audio of lecture by Dr. Thomas D. Seeley, Honeybee biologist at Cornell University
Dr. Seeley located the wild honey bee colonies living in Cornell University’s Arnot Forest in 1978, before the introduction of varroa mites, and again in 2002, well after the mites were established in North America. Contrary to expectation, most of the … Continue reading
Audio of talk by Randy Oliver, of ScientificBeekeeping.com
by Peter Sieling, President Steuben County Beekeeper’s Association We in Upstate NY are fortunate to have regional honey bee associations that bring in high quality lecturers from as far away as California. If you braved the February 19th blizzard and … Continue reading
Peter Sieling speaks at Finger Lakes Beekeeping Club
Ithaca, NY—On Sunday, January 16th, Author and president of the Steuben County Honeybee Association, Peter Sieling, delivered a talk to the Finger Lakes Beekeeping Club on Woodworking for Beekeepers. His topics included how and where to buy lumber, seasoning your … Continue reading
Garreson Publishing Newsletter, November 2010
This month’s newsletter contains some questions we’ve received from beginning beekeepers about fall hive care, and the exciting addition of a new set of woodworking plans.
Questions frequently pop up on my computer screen from across the English speaking world. People rarely have just one question and here are some that arrived recently. The first set concerns hive design. The second set concerns fall management. If you have different opinions, please feel free to comment.
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My Experience with Natural Beekeeping
Ten years ago, Dan, a local beekeeper in his eighties, told me he never had used Apistan or any other miticide in his 40+ colonies. Instead he gave them each a grease patty with a little wintergreen oil mixed in. … Continue reading
A Brief History of the Top Bar Hive
By Peter Sieling In 1682, Sir George Wheler published A Journey into Greece. In it, he described seeing a Greek hive—an inverted skep with wooden bars across the top to which bees attached their comb1. The sloping sides of the … Continue reading