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My husband and I started our own apiary in April 2011. We have just two hives, but can you believe that “just two hives” have the potential to produce enough honey each summer to provide for our family for a year?

Before we got started my husband read, and I browsed, Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad. This book is well written, nicely laid out, and full of valuable information on honeybees, their current struggles, and how to care for them as naturally as possible. Then my husband ordered the bees. Continue reading →