Beekeeping for Lower Property Taxes
Did you know that keeping just 6 colonies of bees on your 5+ acre plot may qualify your property for an “Ag Exemption,” thus lowering your property taxes?
Varroa Mites Attach to Foraging Bees
Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) are honeybee parasites that make beekeeping a challenge throughout the United States and here in Texas. They spread rapidly and, as this short video and the accompanying article show, they can quickly attach themselves to foraging bees then travel back to the hive, where they then begin to reproduce and infest…
Our Hive Management Approach
For many years I have been thinking of and developing an approach based on a self-contained bee colony that is sustainable and requires few inputs …
Our Beekeeper Mentoring Program
We are continuing to develop and test our mentoring program, which we make available to students who have completed our initial one-day beekeeper training workshop. Our mentoring program is a month-by-month followup to that course. It consists of a series of monthly half-day training sessions. In these sessions, we share what we are doing in…