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Recent Articles
- Preparing for Swarm Season and More!
- Getting Ready for Swarm Season: Catching the Swarm
- Getting Ready for Swarm Season: Hiving Obstreperous, Recalcitrant, Intractable, Noncompliant, Uncooperative Swarms
- Getting Ready for Swarm Season: Swarm Boxes
- Getting Ready For Swarm Season: Bait Hives
- Preparing for the Swarm Season: Series
- Sweat Equity
- Geneva Bee Conference
- Ask Peter: Convincing the Spouse
- It’s Finally Here: A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers!
- A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers
- Writing Books
- The Night Bee-fore Christmas
- Tator Tot Experiences a Sudden and Unexpected Descent
- Available Now: “Never Pick Up A Stray Goose”
- The Bee Guy: Beekeepers Secret Lives
- What’s Coming Next
- The Making of the Manual
- Hive-Making Manual – Coming September 1st!
- Sneak Preview of the Hive-Making Manual!
- Coming Soon: Hive Making Manual
- 5 Fundamentals For April & May Gardening
- Straw Hive Making Video
- Profitable Self Sufficient Living
- How To Make Your Own Scented Candles
- Audio of lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Capaldi Evans
- 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
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Preparing for Swarm Season and More!
We just completed our series on Preparing for Swarm Season. Click here to read about bait hives. Click here to read about swarm boxes. Click here to read about swarms that are hard to handle. Finally, ed click here to … Continue reading
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Getting Ready for Swarm Season: Catching the Swarm
When a swarm first leaves the hive, try you’ll see a cloud of bees circling in the area and hear a roaring sound. The bees will be landing on every surface in site. It’s fun to stand in the middle of … Continue reading
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Getting Ready for Swarm Season: Hiving Obstreperous, Recalcitrant, Intractable, Noncompliant, Uncooperative Swarms
Not all swarms that you catch will accept your accommodations. In my experience, about 30% of the swarms I catch want to find their own home in the forest or in someone’s house. They might start to enter your hive and then, … Continue reading
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Getting Ready For Swarm Season: Bait Hives
Set up bait hives well before the swarm season begins. Have one bait hive where you can see it every day. It serves two purposes. First, physician if your bees or any other colonies, whether wild or belonging to your neighbor, are … Continue reading
Preparing for the Swarm Season: Series
In the northern areas of the United States, sickness swarming starts in early May and runs through June. Another, treatment smaller swarm season occurs from mid August to mid September. With nucleus colonies and package bees costing around one hundred … Continue reading
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Sweat Equity
When you increase your net worth by your own labor, installing your own kitchen cabinets, for example, you have increased your net worth. The best part of sweat equity is that it is tax free. What percentage of your income … Continue reading
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Ask Peter: Convincing the Spouse
Hi Peter, I bought some poplar from you for hives a few weeks ago. I’m presently busy milling the lumber- I don’t know why I don’t pay you to do it… the job always ends up taking me about 20 … Continue reading
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It’s Finally Here: A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers!
It’s March 1st and we are excited! The reason? Today we release our newest book by Peter – a collection of humorous short stories about beekeeping. The book, titled A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers, was a long time in the … Continue reading
A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers
On March 1, 2013, Garreson Publishing will be releasing the next book in Peter Sieling’s series of humorous short story collections. A Bee’s Guide to Managing Beekeepers gives a taste of the life of a beekeeper in various aspects, from taking care … Continue reading
Writing Books
Many years ago I wrote a short story called “Dead Baby Birds.” It was the first story I sent to Bee Culture that elicited a response from the editor, “This is a first.” (No animals were harmed in the writing of the story.) … Continue reading