About this episode
Henry J. Svec shares his thoughts on planning for hobby beekeeping after experiencing significant hive loss.
Cutting the dried wildflowers gives me a chance to think about how I want to keep bees as a hobby beekeeper. The 95% loss has been amazing for research, but not so great for hobby beekeeping. Here are some thoughts on forward planning, and some preliminary ideas on what killed the hives.
People in this episode
Host: Henry J. Svec
Topics covered
- hobby beekeeping
- bee health
- wildflowers
- planning
- research
- hive loss
Keywords
- beekeeping
- hive loss
- wildflowers
- planning
- research
- hobby
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