The Beehive Jive Beekeeping Podcast

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Big Gold Stars Sep 02, 2018

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In this episode of the beehive jive, Tracey and Paul visit each others hives and chat about what they achieved this season. 00:00 – 08:30: We visited Paul’s bees to see what was up 08:30 – 11:30: We dared to visit Tracey’s bees as well 11:30 – 53:00: Did we achieve our goals […]

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Sugar Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ Aug 17, 2018

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Tracey and Paul discuss poly hives, forget the name of varroa treatments and Tracey has discovered sugar rolling. 00:00 – 04:00: The most random of beekeeping updates 04:00 – 07:00: Superseder problems 07:00 – 16:00: Managing lots of poly nucs 16:00 – 18:00: Tracey’s honey shack 18:00 – 23:00: Over wintering on poly […]

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Tracey legs it! May 31, 2018

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Two English Beekeepers waffle on about their beekeeping adventures.

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A cup of tea with Liz Apr 04, 2018

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In this episode of our beekeeping podcast, we sit in front of an open log fire and discuss beekeeping with our friend Liz. The education officer of Epsom beekeepers association. Liz has delivered talks to thousands of beekeeper across the country on a range of topics.

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The Honey Show show Jan 01, 2018

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In this episode with chat about our experience at the National Honey Show and interview the show’s chairman Bob Maurer. The honey show hosts a series of beekeeping lectures over the weekend, these were two of our favorites. You can find all their videos on the NHS youtube channel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00:00 – 0600: Introductions 06:00 […]

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The Late Night Jive Sep 21, 2017

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We sat down later in the evening to record the show than we normally do. This late-night jive has a more relaxed (if that is possible) feel to it – and more interruptions: lights going off, doorbells ringing, echoey sound and general tomfoolery. Why not read our #BeekeepingBookClub book – The Honeybee Democracy We’re […]

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Pushing up daisies Aug 14, 2017

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In this episode of the Beehive Jive, a beekeeping podcast, Tracey and Paul wrap up our queen rearing year by discussing our learnings acquired trying to establish a queen rearing program in our apiaries.

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Mite bombs and queen explosions Jun 26, 2017

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Episode 6 of our beekping podcast we discuss mite bombs and how challenging rearing queens in mating nucs are.

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Drama free swarm control. May 16, 2017

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Welcome to episode five of the Beehive Jive podcast. A beekeeping podcast from London, England. In this episode we discuss the tricky issue of swarming: why do bees swarm, can you spot the early signs and what to do if they do swarm. Running order: 00:00: What is Paul up to in his bees. 00:08: […]

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