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Back to SearchEpisode 264: Long Hours of Work
Season 1 Episode 264
In this week's Podcast: It's been a long, hard, working week. Some overnight sessions preparing colonies for the move to the borage and getting them …
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 263: Uniting Colonies
Season 1 Episode 263
In this week's Podcast: As we prepare to move colonies to the Summer Borage pollination some final checks reveal a couple of hopelessly queenless col…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 262: Introducing New Queens
Season 1 Episode 262
In this week's Podcast: With the preparatory work completed and the arrival of our new queens, timing is everything, and wouldn't you just know it, t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 261: Heatwave and Splits
Season 1 Episode 261
In this week's Podcast: At long last it appears Summer has begun. Temperatures heading up and a drier outlook makes for some urgent beekeeping work t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 260: Killing Queens
Season 1 Episode 260
In this week's Podcast: I had a really interesting but brief conversation with a beginner beekeeper this week about the morality of knocking down qu…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 259 - Sunny Spring Inspections
Season 1 Episode 259
In this week's Podcast: Finally, it's warm and sunny, The bees are getting busy, we're queen-rearing, attempting to prevent swarms and doping a litt…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 258: More Lucky Beekeeping
Season 1 Episode 258
In this week's Podcast: Sometimes, just sometimes, you walk into an apiary, start inspecting, and as the inspections go from one hive to the next yo…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 257: Opportunistic Splits
Season 1 Episode 257
In this week's Podcast: Suddenly, we find ourselves moving from chilly wet days to warm Spring conditions and for some colonies it's a sure signal t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 256: Lighting a Smoker
Season 1 Episode 256
In this week's Podcast: I spent a very pleasant day inspecting some of our honeybee colonies this week, maybe our season is about to begin, It got m…
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 255: A Cold, Start-Stop Season
Season 1 Episode 255
In this week's Podcast: A chilly East wind continues to blow and it's disrupting my early inspections, we start, we stop, we start again, listen in …
3 years, 5 months ago