The Buzz About Bees

One of the best ways you can help the bees is by planting food for the bees! Claire Jones, a garden designer and beekeeper, joins me on this episode. Learn what to plant for bees, why bees need flowers and which plants will help the bees the most. Claire also explains what grows well in containers, other places you can plant flowers other than your backyard and more. Show starts at 12:55 Help us out!Fill out our Treatment Free Beekeeping questionnaire at https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/treatmentfree [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/treatmentfree] Resources: * Garden Diaries Blog - https://thegardendiaries.blog/ [https://thegardendiaries.blog/] * Claire's Honey Soap R [https://thegardendiaries.blog/2013/01/07/diy-soap/]ecipe - https://thegardendiaries.blog/2013/01/07/diy-soap/ [https://thegardendiaries.blog/2013/01/07/diy-soap/] * National Wildlife Service Native Plant Finder - https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder [https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder] * Million Pollinator Garden Challenge - http://millionpollinatorgardens.org/ [http://millionpollinatorgardens.org/] * Claire's etsy page - https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGardenDiaries?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=182225449 [https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGardenDiaries?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=182225449] Links to all of these pages and Claire's pollinator posters can be found at https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/gardendiaries. [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/gardendiaries.] Free Bee Book!https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/freebeebook [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/freebeebook]

What is it like to keep Africanized bees? Is it still fun working with bees when they're so aggressive? Can you cross-breed Africanized bees with European bees to get a more docile bee? In this episode I talk about Africanized bees and how they're different from European honey bees as well as my conversation with Laryssa, a beekeeper in Texas who keeps Africanized bees, teaches beekeeping and does numerous cutouts removing wild hives from people's homes where he doesn't know what the temper of the hive will be until he gets there. Talk begins at 14:47. Want to learn more about bees and how you can help them?Sign up for our online class, Intro to Bees & Beekeeping [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/intro-beekeeping-class]. We'll teach you all about the hive, how to make a pollinator garden and other ways you can help the bees. Learn more at www.beekeepingmadesimple.com

Ever have that hive with a queen that you can never find? In this episode, I talk share the queenspotting tips my former employer and 4th generation beekeeper shared with me. I used to give 2 beekeeping tours a day, 5 days a week for 3 years and these tips worked for me every time except twice! Queenspotting quiz ~ beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/queenspotting-tips [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/queenspotting-tips] All online beekeeping classes are buy one get one free until December 27th at beekeepingmadesimple.com [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/].

What are the bees trying to do and how can I help them accomplish what they're trying to do? That's Michael's take on the role of the beekeeper. In this episode I talk with Michael Bush, author of The Practical Beekeeper (as well as other books), and discuss his lazy beekeeping techniques, developing an intuition with your bees, treatment free beekeeping, how he got started, bee fever and more! Michael's website > http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm [http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm] All of his books can be found on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Links are on his website. Photo of Michael's beekeeping calendar > beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/michaelbush [https://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/blog/michaelbush]

I wanted to take a break from the science of bees and beekeeping and share with you the story of one of the most well known and influential writers about beekeeping, Eva Crane. The Eva Crane story starts at 21:45. Your Free Getting Started GuideDownload your free copy of The 7 Steps to Getting Started Keeping Bees at www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/freebeebook [http://www.beekeepingmadesimple.com/freebeebook].