Hi this is Episode Sixty Eight of our beekeeping podcast, This week we are talking about Bee-Friendly Gardens, Naked People and you want to be a Beekeeper?
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What’s happening at kiwimana
Gary
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A great article about how you can help the bees even if you are unable to keep bees. This could be a great link for all your friends that don’t have bees yet.
Topics Covered:-
Creating Homes for Your Honeybees -- homes for other pollinators
Bee Feeder -- using sugar never feed them honey
Hydration Station -- provide sources of water
Sources of Pollen -- provide bee friendly flowers
We are selling Seeds now!!!
Another practical way to help restore bee colonies in your area is to create a bee-friendly garden. By providing shelter, food, and water, you can help the bees in your neighborhood to thrive.
Waste of honey or stunning art, what do you think? These are part of Blake Little’s latest project called “Preserved”.
Photo by Blake LittleThe award-winning photographer “Blake Little” has shot a series of portraits of men, women, children, and even a dog, drenched in honey, and the results are truly a thing of wonder.
Comvita is behind a program to reuse land that can’t be farmed to produced high UMF factor Manuka Honey.
Backers of a trial involving high performance manuka trees hope it will provide a credible land use alternative for farmers on marginal hill country land.
How To Prepare A Beehive For Winter In New Zealand -- Ron
How to do foundation-less frames -- Justina
What to use for foundationless frames -- Vanessa
Our interview with Michael Bush can be found HERE
What types of bee hives are available in New Zealand -- Justin
If you have a question, email us at [email protected] and the team at kiwimana will do our best to answer it.
Blog Post Coming Soon
Treatment Free Beekeeping with Solomon Parker -- KM069
How To Prepare A Beehive For Winter In New Zealand
What types of bee hives are available in New Zealand
How To Extract Honey Without An Honey Extractor
Feedback from you guys!!!
A fine example of what a podcast should be -- Snecker -- 5 Stars -- Great Britain
Gary and Margaret are clearly passionate about what they do and sum up an image of a couple of contented beekeepers, sharing their passion with the wider world, broadcasting from some sort of kiwi nirvana where the gentle hum of Apis Mellifera is occasionally interrupted by the sharp crack of a hive tool opening a super, overflowing with golden honey. It would seem that in kiwimana-land, everything is indeed, Awesome”. Interspersed with humour.
Awesome Podcast!!! -- Scuba Sarah and Tyler -- 5 Stars -- United States of America
I am a beginner beekeeper from the Willamette Valley area of Oregon in the USA. I have listened to nearly all of these episodes and they are all full of valuable information for beginner and experienced beekeepers alike. They interview many beekeepers from around the world on their podcast where they share stories about beekeeping. Although many of the people interviewed on the podcast are expert beekeepers, they also interview beekeepers with all levels of experience which I have found particularly valuable. The person being interviewed on the podcast is asked the same group of questions (most of the time) regardless of who they are. I find the different answers people give to these questions very valuable and interesting. When you ask a beekeeper a question, they rarely just give you an answer, they tell you a story. The Folks at Kiwimana HQ are always trying to improve upon different beekeeping techniques and equipment to allow people to be more successful. They test products and talk about their findings on the podcast and if they can’t find something they like, they invent their own. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Gary is the web designer and chief Propeller-head at kiwimana. He enjoys designing products which solve problems and is passionate about saving the Bees and encouraging urban beekeeping. Gary loves to write about issues that affect the Bees and our environment. He is one of the hosts of the kiwimana buzz Beekeeping podcast.
How to split a Beehive
Campbell Live reporter Julian Lee -- also known as Julio -- wanted to find out what life was like beyond the newsroom.
Backers of a trial involving high performance manuka trees hope it will provide a credible land use alternative for farmers on marginal hill country land.
How To Prepare A Beehive For Winter In New Zealand -- Ron
Listened last night.
Did you get into TUTU honey?
Ha no nothing like that Patrick