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Episode 19 – Summer Heat Management: Bearding, Ventilation, and Hive Space 🐝 ☀️
This episode focuses on managing colonies during peak summer heat and what to do when you see heavy bearding and outside-the-hive activity. I break d…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 18 – Honey Harvest Techniques, Smoker Tips, and Space Management (Part 2) 🐝 🍯
This episode continues the honey-focused discussion from Part 1 and works through listener emails covering smoker fuel, extraction methods, queen cel…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 17 – Honey Harvest Timing and Feeding Decisions (Part 1) 🐝 🍯
This episode focuses on honey production questions, extraction timing, and how feeding decisions intersect with harvest season. I walk through listen…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 16 – Listener Questions, Hive Decisions, and Seasonal Management 🐝 📨
This episode works through a wide range of listener questions and timely management decisions that come up as the season shifts from spring into summ…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 15 – Supplemental Feeding: Feeders, Timing, and Practical Tradeoffs 🐝 🍯
This episode focuses on supplemental feeding and how to decide when, why, and how to feed colonies when natural forage is limited or unreliable. I wa…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 14 – First-Year Colony Expectations: Packages, Nucs, and Realistic Outcomes 🐝 📦
This episode focuses on what new beekeepers should realistically expect from colonies during their first season, whether they start with package bees…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 13 – Getting Social: New Platforms and Listener Questions 🐝 💬
This episode shifts to listener questions and practical decisions that come up outside of textbook scenarios. Recorded after a long day in the apiary…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 12 – Recent Inspections and Hive Interventions 🐝 📝
This episode is a real-world walk through recent hive inspections and the decisions that followed them. I share what I’m seeing across several coloni…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 11 – Swarm Season Strategies: Hive Configurations and Expansion Options (Part 2) 🐝 🏗️
This episode continues the swarm season series by focusing on how different hive configurations affect space, brood management, and swarm pressure. I…
4 years, 11 months ago
Episode 10 – Swarm Season Strategies: Managing Growth and Preventing Swarms (Part 1) 🐝 🌼
This episode kicks off a two-part series focused on swarm season and what actually drives colonies to leave when spring populations explode. I walk t…
4 years, 11 months ago