White Clover the Bridge between Summer and Fall
White clover is considered the most important honey plant in North America. White clover honey is also the honey by which all other...
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Head Beekeeper
Mar 29, 20202 min
Early Spring Warm Days Makes for a Busy Bee yard.
It was a great weekend to get a lot of work done in the bee yard. Here are a few snapshots. We've added a few new hives to the yard. The...
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Head Beekeeper
Mar 19, 20201 min
The Honeybee and the Maple Tree
The Honeybee and the Maple Tree have an interesting relationship. In the very early spring when the perfect combination of freezing...
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Head Beekeeper
Mar 9, 20201 min
Hungry honey bees visiting bird feeders
Honey Bees are hungry and cracked corn dust will do in a pinch.
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Head Beekeeper
Feb 22, 20202 min
Tools of the trade - Hive Tool
There are three essential tools that every beekeeper uses while working with bees. What you first associate with beekeepers are the veil...
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Head Beekeeper
Feb 13, 20206 min
Fake Honey?
The only way to know you have pure honey, buy from your local beekeeper.
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Head Beekeeper
Feb 5, 20205 min
Natural Beekeeping
Not treating them like an industrial machine producing honey, but rather treating them as the living biological organism that they are.
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Head Beekeeper
Jan 28, 20206 min
There is more to beekeeping than science and skill
Unhappy events were not the only occasions that the bees were invited to participate in.
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Head Beekeeper
Dec 30, 20191 min
2020 Wildflower Menu
It was a tough fall in 2019 for putting in the seed for the 2020 Wildflower Field. We were able to finally plant the field the week...
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Head Beekeeper
Dec 29, 20196 min
Types of Honey Bees
For as long as honey bees have been domesticated, beekeepers have known that different genetic stocks have distinctive differences.
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Head Beekeeper
Dec 27, 20194 min
The Bee Killer - Condensation
Bees create moisture in the hive during winter. Too much moisture and humidity in the hive can kill the entire hive.
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Head Beekeeper
Dec 15, 20195 min
It is cold but the bees are still busy
Bees across the country manage to survive the cold winter months, which speaks to their incredible planning and resilience.
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Head Beekeeper
Aug 8, 20192 min
Step aside, smoker, there’s a new tool in town.
While we do use smokers among many other traditional beekeeping tools and equipment, including the time-tested 10-frame Langstroth hives....
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Head Beekeeper
Aug 8, 20192 min
Follow. Forage. Feast. Repeat.
Sycamore Creek Apiary follows the Ohio State Beekeepers Association’s (OSBA) Best Management Practices. Whenever possible, we opt for...
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