How I define Sustainable Beekeeping

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An 89 year old man attended our beekeeping club several months back, and didn’t say much, so after the meeting I pulled him aside to visit with him. I asked him about his bees, and he told me that he had two hives and has been keeping bees for over 50 yrs. I asked him how they were doing and with a bit of embarrassment and more like a confession he told me that he really didn’t medicate them, and that he just left them alone other than to harvest in the fall. So I asked him if his bees were surviving, and he said that he had all the honey that he and his friends could eat, and when one of his colonies died out, he simply catches a local swarm to repopulate the hive.

This is what the natural beekeeping trend is attracted to. Small hobby beekeepers who can supply friends, family, and maybe a farmers market, with delicious local honey, and enjoy the great hobby in the process.

The beekeeping process has become an industrial process, and I will briefly run through the list here, with more in-depth explanation in later posts.

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