Random Beekeeping Podcasts

Patti Haines will take you on a journey into the world of bees and beekeeping. From spiritual conversations inspired by bees to Do-It-Yourself guides on becoming a bee steward. Honey Bee My Teacher is all the buzzzzz.

Categories: Education

Tags: Beekeeping, bees, Do, hive, honey, honeybee, how, instructions, IT, Philosophy, pollinator, spirituality, Steward, to, Yourself

This podcast serves to educate those interested in beekeeping or… Genus Apis overall. My upload cycle is inconsistent however I hope you find the available episodes informative and enjoy learning the science, history and behaviors of the worlds most important pollinator.

Categories: Education, Leisure, Science

Tags: Beekeeping, bees, hobbies, nature

The podcast for the latest beekeeping news, information and entertainment for today’s beekeeper. Hosts Jeff Ott and Kim Flottum bring you interviews and commentary helping you become a more informed and knowledgeable beekeeper.

[Tom Theobald]In this episode, we welcome back Colorado beekeeper, Tom Theobald. Tom had a small commercial operation in Colorado in the late 70’s, running up to 200 or so colonies when he first started using two queen colonies. The biology of running two queens in a colony does make sense if you use the technique Tom perfected, but the better you get, the more lifting you are going to do. His finished production hives had three deeps for brood production and seven mediums for honey storage. At the time, an average to strong colony in his part of Colorado would make about 70 pounds of honey in a season, Tom’s two queen colonies averaged between 240 and 270 pounds!

The advantages, beside huge honey crops, were that these colonies started with last year’s queen, and a new, second queen was added in early spring. When the season was over, the new queen almost always prevailed, thus starting the next season with a proven queen. Plus, with a foraging population as large as these colonies produced, there was a vast store house of pollen the next spring for that season’s buildup.

Two-queen honey production is becoming a lost art as it takes a lot of work, timing and an understanding of your area’s nectar flows. However, the payoff is big! If you have bees in a location with lots of forage and not too much varroa or pesticide pressure, this approach may work for you.

Tom and we would like to know if you or a beekeeper you know uses the two-queen approach. Let us know on our website!

Links and websites mentioned in this podcast:

– Our First Season Interview with Tom about Neonicotinoids: https://beekeepingtodaypodcast.com/tom-theobold-the-problem-with-neonics
– Honey Bee Obscura Podcast with Kim & Jim: http://honeybeeobscura.com

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Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com

This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!

We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for[2 Million Blossoms] your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum.

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We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com

Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com

Thank you for listening!

Podcast music: Young Presidents, “Be Strong”, Musicalman, “Epilogue”

Categories: Education, Leisure, Science

Tags: apiary, beeculture, beekeeper, Beekeeping, bees, beeswax, entomology, honey, honeybees, insects, jeffott, kimflottum, pollen, pollination

Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We’ll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you’re informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system… and to have a great time doing it! Support our Podcast and listen Ad-Free! Visit www.urbanfarm.org/patron for more information and see what else we include.

Categories: Arts, Education, Leisure

Tags: agriculture, animals, aquaponics, backyard, Beekeeping, bees, breeders, business, Canning, change, chicken, community, compost, Concepts, cooking, Crop, Crops, design, dirt, Ducks, Education, Eggs, empower, entrepreneur, family, farm, farmers, farmsteading, Food, forest, fowl, friends, Fruit, garden, gardening, Green, gregpeterson, grow, Guest, gut, Harvest, Harvesting, health, herbs, homesteading, hyrdroponics, inform, Inspired, Kids, local, Market, mushrooms, nature, nutrition, Orchard, organic, Permaculture, Peterson, plants, pollenator, pollinator, poultry, prepping, Regenerative, resource, respect, saving, school, Season, seed, small, soil, success, sustainability, sustainable, theurbanfarm, tomato, trees, urban, urbanfarm, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, water, worms

The Beet started as the Epic Gardening Podcast, but has grown into a one-stop shop for plant lovers. Five days a week, we explore topics ranging from beginner gardening tips to in-depth discussions with industry and science experts. Here, we’ll open up new gardening horizons, inspire you to greater heights, share new and exciting discoveries in agriculture, and fill your mind with freshly-harvested information you can apply to your own gardening journey!

Categories: Education, Leisure

Tags: agriculture, amendments, annuals, aquaponics, backtoeden, Beekeeping, bees, beginnergardener, beneficialinsects, biennials, Biochar, birdies, birdiesbeds, birdiesgardenbeds, birdiesraisedbeds, bokashi, botanical, botanicalinterests, botany, CARROTS, chickens, companionplanting, compost, composting, containergardening, Crops, diseases, epicgardening, epichomestead, ericgardening, Fertilizer, flowers, Food, foodpreservation, foodscape, Fruit, fungi, gardendesign, gardening, germination, growingfood, Harvesting, herbs, homesteading, Horticulture, houseplants, hydroponics, insects, irrigation, Jacques, jacquesinthegarden, JADAM, kevinespiritu, landscaping, microgreens, milkweed, mulch, mycorrhizae, nativeplants, npk, perennials, Permaculture, Pests, plantdiseases, plantpests, plants, pollinators, propagating, raisedbeds, roots, seeds, seedstarting, soil, squarefootgardening, successionplanting, sustainability, thebeet, thebeetpodcast, Tomatoes, tools, trees, urbangardening, vegetable, vermicomposting, Weeding, weeds, worms

Notes from the Beeyard is a weekly podcast about the joys and disappointments of beekeeping.

From 1990 to 2016 Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald wrote a weekly column, Notes from the Beeyard, for a regional farm and ranch magazine.

Tom’s initial plan for Notes from the Beeyard was to document a single year in his life as a beekeeper – swarm management, working toward the honey flow, bears – and so on. Over time, the column grew to hold much more. Notes from the Beeyard is about the joys and disappointments of beekeeping. It’s about the Colorado landscape, friendship, the fabric of Western life, and the passage of time.

Listen to Notes from the Beeyard to hear Tom read stories about beekeeping. Enjoy the conversation that follows as Tom and Notes from the Beeyard podcast host, Laura Tyler, chat about Tom’s stories.

[Tom Theobold]
Tom Theobold standing next to one of his two-queen colonies in Boulder County, Colorado.

Tom Theobald

“There are few crafts which draw one as intimately into the natural order of things as the bees do, and even after years of beekeeping I often found myself standing in awe at some event I witnessed in my work.”

Tom Theobald is an author and beekeeper who has lived and kept bees in Niwot, Colorado for over 40 years.

Laura Tyler

“I love talking with beekeepers and listening to stories about their lives because working with bees is fascinating and can feel adventuresome.”

Laura Tyler is a media producer and visual artist with over 20 years experience keeping bees in Boulder, Colorado.

https://notesfromthebeeyard.buzz

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: American West, Bee Culture, Beekeepers, Beekeeping, bees, beeswax, Boulder, Colorado, honey, Notes from the Beeyard, western

A Beekeeping Podcast for the Inquisitive Beekeeper with a Short Attention Span! BeeFarmer, YouTuber (The Norfolk Honey Company, Patreon Host (www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney), Beekeeping mentor to 1000’s of beekeepers worldwide via my social media channels, Facebook and Instagram.

Categories: Arts, Education, Science

Tags: Beekeeping, Beekeeping Short and Sweet, honeybees, Keeping bees

Phil Chandler, teacher and author of ‘The Barefoot Beekeeper’, talks about ‘balanced beekeeping’ and explains why he believes we need to change both the way we grow our food and the way we work with honeybees if we want them – and ourselves – to survive and thrive. Beekeeping has been all about honey production. Now we need to learn to value bees for their own sake – for their part in nature as pollinators of many plant species, both wild and cultivated. The Barefoot Beekeeper is available in print or as an ebook from www.biobees.com

Categories: Education, Leisure

Tags: Beekeeping, chemicalfree, ecology, honeybees, naturalbeekeeping, organic, Permaculture, topbar, warre