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Treatment Free Beekeeping Henry J. Svec
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Turning a 50 acre cash crop farm back to a wildflower bee sanctuary and business. Join me as I explain each week what we are doing and why we are bee "helpers" and not bee keepers. The name change on February 25, 2024, is reflected in the science that for me makes most sense. The goal is to listen to all aspects of beekeeping and to be an open and honest place for everyone to share their experience. The focus for our work and research continues to be on the conversion of the 50 acre farm back to nature and the re-wilding of lands in Nova Scotia. Treatment Free best describes what we are doing. Best to make that clear despite the usual backlash. Bee well.
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Why Not Russian Bees
In the United States since 1997 and Canada since 2000, Russian Bees are reported to be resistent to mites and other diseases. Is it time to add them to the farm?
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Vaccinated Queens Treatment Free?
I take a look at this new opportunity to introduce new bees to the farm. Would you consider them to be treatment free?
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Hive and Farm Update
Things are getting close for splits, the wildflowers and clover thriving.
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Beekeeping Censorship
Censorship appears to be alive and well in the Beekeeping Industry. Here are the three types of censorship we face and some strategies to help.
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Turning One Hive into Twelve?
In this podcast I review the book by Mel Disselkoen and his OTS Queen Rearing Technique. It's a must read for those wanting to better understand ways to help our bees in a more natural way.
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Make Your Hives Fail
Inversion is a term popularized by Charlie Munger the great investor from Berkshire Hathaway. You look at a problem by going in reverse. Instead of saying what can I do to help my bees survive, ask, what can I do to make them fail. By engaging in that type of thinking a real solution may come to you. I go through this exercise and how it is helping me move on in the recovery stage here on the farm.