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Beekeeping at Five Apple Farm Podcast

Sustainable beekeeping tips, talk & how-to from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina

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Queen Rearing Basics Part 1 (010)

Queen Rearing Basics Part 1 (010)

Aspects to getting quality queens from your own yard. Part one of several. Intermediate level. Bryan Fisher’s YouTube on... Read more

13 Apr 2019

32mins

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Listener Mail / Random Q & A / Apiary Update 4/1/19 (007)

Listener Mail / Random Q & A / Apiary Update 4/1/19 (007)

Random bee chat — Some feedback from you and questions I attempt to answer: flow hive, building equipment, split remorse... Read more

3 Apr 2019

32mins

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Bee-School Radio Part 1: Do you have what it takes? (49)

Bee-School Radio Part 1: Do you have what it takes? (49)

Part 1: Do you have what it takes to be a good beekeeper? This episode includes an easy test to give you the answer.  Be... Read more

4 Jan 2020

14mins

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Closing out 2019 plus encouragement: Don't Give Up! (48)

Closing out 2019 plus encouragement: Don't Give Up! (48)

The last episode of 2019! Some thanks, some encouragement. Show notes are posted here and include links to sources I men... Read more

29 Dec 2019

43mins

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Bee yard updates, Summer Splits (021)

Bee yard updates, Summer Splits (021)

Finally, a way to do a cut down split WITHOUT finding the queen! Thanks to Tina Sebasteyan in the May 2019 American Bee ... Read more

4 Jun 2019

37mins

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Bee-School Radio Part 2: The Colony (51)

Bee-School Radio Part 2: The Colony (51)

Talking about the whole hive as 'the animal.' https://www.patreon.com/posts/33062208 Bee-School Radio 2020 is collection... Read more

11 Jan 2020

28mins

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More Winter Prep: Reading on Insulation and Ventilation (38)

More Winter Prep: Reading on Insulation and Ventilation (38)

Show notes are available to everyone and include link to the online article I read from -- you can find it here:  www.pa... Read more

13 Oct 2019

40mins

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Listener questions; Sugar Brick Recipes (40)

Listener questions; Sugar Brick Recipes (40)

Show notes, posts & links at https://www.patreon.com/fiveapple Free sugar block recipe mentioned is here: https://ww... Read more

28 Oct 2019

42mins

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Queen Rearing Using a Cloake Board (Sue Cobey’s article) (012)

Queen Rearing Using a Cloake Board (Sue Cobey’s article) (012)

Today I read selections of Sue Cobey’s classic article on Cloake board queen rearing. Skilled intermediate and up. Full ... Read more

20 Apr 2019

29mins

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Interview: Dr Meghan Milbrath (42)

Interview: Dr Meghan Milbrath (42)

Show notes with links mentioned in episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31450833 -- About the podcast: Leigh Knott kee... Read more

10 Nov 2019

56mins

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Listener Questions, Bee Ramblings (013)

Listener Questions, Bee Ramblings (013)

Preventing swarming after splits. Listener question: What advice would you now give your first year beekeeper self.

29 Apr 2019

30mins

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Simple ‘Frame-Based’ Queen Rearing, Part 2 (011)

Simple ‘Frame-Based’ Queen Rearing, Part 2 (011)

Without moving anything smaller than a frame (no grafting, that is) you can make a few to several good queens off your f... Read more

14 Apr 2019

30mins

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First Interview! Mark Smith of Flatwoods Bee Farm (39)

First Interview! Mark Smith of Flatwoods Bee Farm (39)

None of this would be possible without the generous donations from THE RECORDER CREW! i didn’t get the chance to add an ... Read more

21 Oct 2019

29mins

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Reading: Activities and Behavior of Honey Bees (030)

Reading: Activities and Behavior of Honey Bees (030)

Selections from Norman E Gary, chapter 8 of Hive & The Honey Bee (Dadant). Also: The observation hive I’m trying out... Read more

4 Aug 2019

33mins

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Bee Health Guru App, Moving Bees, more (022)

Bee Health Guru App, Moving Bees, more (022)

8 Jun 2019

28mins

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Interview: Bryan Fisher (47)

Interview: Bryan Fisher (47)

Bryan Fisher is a fourth-generation beekeeper and North Carolina Master Beekeeper who runs well over a hundred hives in ... Read more

21 Dec 2019

53mins

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WINTER PREP: The high-speed Overview (37)

WINTER PREP: The high-speed Overview (37)

Show notes will be posted and available to everyone at: www.patreon.com/fiveapple

9 Oct 2019

44mins

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Feed them if they need it (and maybe for other reasons) (33)

Feed them if they need it (and maybe for other reasons) (33)

Taking the simple feeding of sugar syrup for hives you find too light to make it....and complicating it with things to t... Read more

8 Sep 2019

37mins

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Listener Mail: Top bars, hives without queens, swarm cells to nucs (027)

Listener Mail: Top bars, hives without queens, swarm cells to nucs (027)

Top bars, natural comb, podcasting errors, hives without a Queen (apparently), queens from swarm cells — Listener Mail e... Read more

15 Jul 2019

29mins

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EFB recovery; Late Summer is critical to overwintering, more. (028)

EFB recovery; Late Summer is critical to overwintering, more. (028)

I’m happy to report good news on the two hives that had EFB. Also: Late summer is a critical decision/action window for ... Read more

21 Jul 2019

36mins

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