Posts Tagged ‘organic’
Backwards Beekeepers TV: Swarm capture and hive rescue.
Kirkobeeo visits the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles to capture a bee swarm and rescue a hive living in the garden behind a historic theater.
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Backwards Beekeepers TV: The Honey Harvest
Backwards Beekeeping guru Kirk Anderson (aka Kirkobeeo) takes honey from two of his hives–one of which becomes very testy during the process. Then Kirk demonstrates the easy crush-and-strain method of honey extraction. This is the part of beekeeping that gets everyone the most excited.
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Ross Conrad and Natural Beekeeping
Master beekeeper Ross Conrad spoke with us at Apeiron’s Sustainable Living Expo in Rhode Island in the summer of 2008.
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Backwards Beekeepers TV: How To Make Starter Strips
Backwards Beekeeper Kirk Anderson (aka Kirkobeeo) shows how to make starter strips and put them in your hive frames. Starter strips are the Backwards Beekeepers’ alternative to the wax foundation traditionally used in beehive frames; the wax sheets sold commercially usually come from hives that use chemicals and fungicides. Letting your bees draw their own comb also means that they’ll build cells that are the size they want, not the size you tell them to build. This means you get bees that …
