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So, you want to be a commercial beekeeper...

So you want to be a full-time commercial beekeeper and keep 1,000 colonies or more. Perhaps you want to sell honey and beeswax, rent your bees for commercial crop pollination, rear queen bees, or sell bulk bees. The newly published second edition of...

Honey bee heading for almond blossoms, spring of 2011, at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee heading for almond blossoms, spring of 2011, at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The queen and her court at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The queen and her court at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8:26 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beekeeping (2), Eric Mussen (4), Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (1), Joe DeRisi (1), Small Farm Handbook (1)

Bee-ing green

Going green in your backyard doesn’t mean just planting a bee-friendly garden and providing water for the bees. Have you ever thought about becoming a backyard beekeeper? You can help boost the declining bee population while engaging in a fascinating...

Backyard Bee

POLLEN-PACKING honey bee heading toward rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Smoking the Hive

BEEKEEPER smoking a hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 9:22 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beekeeping (2), Eric Mussen (4), Kim Flottum (1), Malcom T. Sanford (1), Norman Gary (1), Susan Cobey (2)