About the writer: John Kirk is an avid gamer, a writer, a student, and apparently likes writing in third person.
I’m 22 summers old and a student at Rowan University, studying journalism. I’m from “South Jersey” for those who understand, New Jersey to those that don’t....Read more on the About Page....
Yesterday I attempted to make a honeybee fondant. It didn’t quite turn out just as I thought it should. Those guides should really have step by step pictures or video. Maybe I should have just consulted my good friend Jen over at Twenty-Something and Starving! At any rate the first step was to measure out [...]
Filed under: General, instructional | Tagged: bee candy, fondant, Twenty-Something and Starving, winter bees, wintering a hive | 2 Comments »
Whew! Busy week/weekend folks. Here is the much-anticipated third part to the becoming a backyard beekeeper series! Thus far we have discussed how to gain knowledge about beekeeping, where to put our hives, and how a network of support could help keep us on the right beekeeping path in part one of the series, and [...]
Filed under: instructional, Series | Tagged: becoming a beekeeper, bee colony, Harvey's Honey, how to start your own bee hive, italian honeybee, mail order bees, Nuc, nucleus, Start honeybee colony | 2 Comments »
Foreword Just in case you didn’t read the post before this one, I explained that over the next week or so I would be going through certain steps that need to be taken in order to put you on your way to becoming a backyard beekeeper. I will go over the things that I did, [...]
Filed under: instructional, Series | Tagged: backyard beekeeping, backyard buzz, Becoming a backyard beekeeper, bee-commerce, beekeeping for dummies, beekeeping resource, environmentalism, fun, green movement, Honeybees, instructional, part 1, Winterizing bee hive | 1 Comment »
Photo found on Flickr and taken from user Cornell University Library You! Yes, you can Become a backyard beekeeper too! The next few posts of mine will be dedicated to the steps it takes to start your own backyard apiary! Exciting I know! So hold on tight I’ll be posting it in a few post [...]
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So yesterday evening, when all the girls came home from a hard, cold day of foraging for anything they could use for the coming winter, my father and myself set out to bring about the first step in helping the hive survive this winter. As suggested by Tim Schuler, I moved the hive from where [...]
Filed under: General, instructional | Tagged: 2:1 sugar syrup, backyard buzz, Backyardbeekeeper, Bees, environmentalism, green movement, hive body, Honeybees, John Kirk, pine needles, Propolis, smoker, Wax, Winterizing bee hive | 3 Comments »
Sorry about taking so long to make an official post again, I have been doing both chores and errands all around town before going back to school for a new week. And man, I have been as busy as my bees. I did two things before I left for school, however. I bottled the honey [...]
Filed under: information, instructional | Tagged: 2:1 sugar syrup, Bottling honey, harvest, Honeybees, mason, mason jar | 9 Comments »
John harvests his hive first hive after his first summer of beekeeping. Instructional.
Filed under: information, instructional | Tagged: DIY, do it yourself, extractor, fun, honey, Honeybees, instructional, pine needles, smoker, Wax | 2 Comments »
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