Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing to be called a queen bee, we can all agree on the fact that everything certainly does revolve around a hive’s queen bee. She may not bark orders at her ...
Best Goat Fencing Options and How to Effectively Confine Your Goats
Are you a newcomer to keeping goats and wondering how you’re going to effectively confine goats and keep these adorable critters safe? Maybe you’re still in the planning stages of raising goats, but ...
A Complete Guide to Harvesting Honey and Beeswax for the First Time
The harvesting of honey has been fine-tuned for thousands of years. Over time, there have been countless improvements to the process that make extraction easier on bees and their keepers. What was ...
Beginner’s Guide to Raising Goats for Milk Production
Raising goats for milk production is generally considered the most labor-intensive reason for keeping them. Between daily milking, special nutrition management, and the mandatory breeding necessary to ...
3 Efficient Methods for Castrating Goats Safely
Are you the proud new goat parent of a bouncing baby boy? Male goat kids are sweet when they’re young, but they become fertile quickly. Most goats are fertile by around seven weeks of age. If ...
Common Bee Problems, Pests, and Diseases, and How to Fix Them
If you are new to beekeeping or keen to venture into this highly satisfying venture, brushing up on common beekeeping problems will prepare you for the unknown and help prevent the loss of your hive. ...
Beehive Management: How to Inspect, Handle, and Feed Your Bees Over the Years
You’ve set up the ideal honey-making hive for your new bees, and you are sure your colony is happy with their new home. Congrats! But your work doesn’t end after installing bees, nope, there’s a ...
The Practical Guide on How to Start Beekeeping for Beginners
Honeybees are a fascinating bunch of insects, it's no secret that we've enjoyed managing hives for many centuries; beekeeping can be traced back 9,000 years! In fact, bees are one of the few ...
Before You Start Beekeeping: Legal, Cost, Time Commitment, and Bee Anatomy in a Nutshell
If you’re not already familiar with honey bees, you may not be aware of the tremendous benefit they are to our planet. Of course, bees produce the sweet honey that we love to add to a hot cup of ...