Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

In traditional Langstroth beehives, the honey is extracted via a centrifuge that spins the golden liquid out of the comb and allows it to run into your pot. In a top-bar hive, honey collection is ...

Joe Hurley plans to build private honey processing plant to filter and bottle honey from the 150 hives he hopes to grow. When Victor resident Joe Hurley started beekeeping five years ago, all he had ...

Donning a beekeeper’s hat and veil, Brandi Bannister picks up a bee-covered frame from a hive outside her South Lake Tahoe home to show off the hexagonal honeycomb beginning to form. “I normally get ...

It took a decade for Stuart and Cedar Anderson, a father and son living in rural Australia, to find a solution to a challenge they’d experienced as beekeepers: how to harvest honey without donning an ...

Early on Saturday mornings, beekeeper Tim Moore sets up a small white tent by an apple tree in front of Arrowhead Montessori school, his coolers full of golden and dark amber honey from his family’s ...

Transforming nectar into sweet honey is a tireless process that calls for incredible teamwork among bees. That and a lot of vomiting. (But more on that later.) In honor of bees, the sweet fruit of ...

A typical honeybee colony comprises one queen bee, about a thousand male drones, whose only job is to inseminate the queen, and upward of 60,000 sterile female worker bees that are responsible for ...