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How to Make Chili Powder from the Homestead Garden
This warm spice mix will add a flavorful punch to your kitchen.
How to Make Onion Soup Mix from the Homestead Garden
One of my favorite ways to use herbs from our homestead garden is by making spice mixes. I love to […]
How to build your own bee box, an easy woodworking tutorial
From The Honey Company Workshop, watch Stan Moulton as he builds a deep hive body or super box for his […]
Attract Honeybees with this Expert Garden Plan
We are very excited to share this bee-friendly garden design that Margot from Quiet Poppy Designs created for us! You […]
Packages and Nucs: Which are better?
Every year in late winter, we make management decisions about selling bees in the spring. We decide between selling splits […]
Four Essential Questions for Hive Inspections
As beekeepers inspect their hives this summer, every 7-10 days, here are some essential questions to ask every time they […]
Adapting for the Flow Hive
We have been getting question about the Flow Hive for some time now, and I wanted to share my opinion/ […]
Will My Package Freeze in The Snow?
This is a photo of our yard this morning, Tuesday. Package pickups were Saturday. Beekeepers are all concerned about managing […]
Managing Packages in Cold Weather
Managing Packages in Cold Weather The Honey Company Saturday is forecasted to be sunny, but we’ve seen some heavy […]
Recycled Building Materials
Question: Due to wholesalers having large minimum orders, I’m struggling to find a cheap source of timber. I’m considering driving […]
Screened Bottom Board Opinion
Above photo credit to Val Wright Q: I purchased a screened bottom board last year to help with a mite […]
Introducing a Queen to a Colony With a Laying Worker using a Push-In Cage
We often have questions about colonies with laying workers, especially about requeening them. Often, beekeepers end up wasting the queen […]
Queenless problems?
What a great spring! This year we brought in 770 packages of bees and are excited to see your beekeeping […]
Tips on Using a Smoker
As beekeepers, we often carry around a hot canister of live coals, otherwise known as a bee smoker. We use […]
Queenless Hive
We have received multiple questions about queenless hives lately. When this happens, we usually need to know the following. These […]
Why go foundationless?
Photo credit for the above photo goes to Valerie Wright! Thanks for sharing this with us! Over the past 5 […]
Plum Bloom on Beeswax
We received a great question and beautiful photos from Rachelle (below) and Valerie (above). The comb in Rachelle’s hive has dark wax […]
My hive died this winter. What happened?
Lately we have been receiving several questions about dead hives. If your hive did not make it, we are sad. It […]
Tylan Measurements for Honeybees
We have had many questions over the years about medicating bees, most recently today. In the spirit of helpfulness, we’d […]