BEEKEEPING

In Ancient Greece, they noticed that bees would use a natural resin to close up the entrance of their hives. Hence the term « propolis », which means « before the city ». Nowadays, we harvest propolis for its therapeutic attributes. Propolis helps...

How much does it cost to set up beekeeping?To start beekeeping, you need bees with a queen, a hive to welcome your bees and your equipment to visit your colony in peace. The total price to start in beekeeping is $595. This is detail. For the beekeeper, you need: – Bee...

How do you install a nuc of bees? If you want to set up a hive in your garden or an apiary of a few hives in the countryside, bees nuc are the ideal and easiest way to start beekeeping. Book your bees nuc during the winter. Be careful the quantities of bees nuc are...

Nucs are now available for pre-order, choose which Saturday you want to pick-up your bees. Buy now 5 frame Nuc with Queen: No delivery possible, only collection of purchases. Time pick-up Saturday at : Beeopic 2647 Reliez Valley Road Martinez, California, 94553 5...

Queen shipments are again on Tuesday every week.

Harvesting times differ according to what honey you want. If you want a specific plant’s honey, you need to harvest right at the end of this plant’s blossoming. However, if you want a multi-plant honey, you have to wait until the end of the last blossoming, which...

Now that the beekeeping season is finished, you can store your super until the next one. However you should follow some rules in order to maximize the time you can use the same supers, that way saving money and time along the way. Firstly, you should only store supers...

Beeboard, a free hive-tracking app A free app to track your hives in the field and at home. No more problem gathering informations about your hives !!!In addition, Beeboard is made to facilitate the efficiency of queens and especially their descendants, without...

Also called « the bees’ vampire », the varroa is a true disrupter of any beekeeper’s schedule and apiary. Varroa’s invasion are very difficult to contain and most of the time will infect all the colonies and very quickly too. Epiodemology story A varroa is...