Thirty short video lessons covering a full beekeeping year, from choosing your first colony to rearing your own queens. Free to watch, no account needed.
Costs, time, and what your first year really looks like.
1:45 2Queen, workers, drones — who does what in the hive.
1:40 3Boxes, frames, tools, and the gear worth buying.
1:40 4Compare popular bee races and pick the right fit.
1:40 5Nucs vs packages, prices, and what to check on pickup.
1:40 6Sun, wind, water, neighbors — placing your hive right.
1:40 7Smoker, movements, and confidence for the first look inside.
1:40 8Read brood, pollen, and honey patterns like a pro.
1:40 9Spotting the queen fast — and what if she is missing.
1:40 10The right inspection rhythm for every season.
1:40 11Swarm signals and how to stay ahead of them.
1:40 12Syrup, fondant, pollen — what, when, and how much.
1:40 13Wake the colony up strong after winter.
2:12 14Heat, dearth, and robbing — midsummer management.
1:40 15The #1 mite: spotting, counting, and treating varroa.
1:40 16Feeding and shrinking the nest before the cold.
1:40 17The winter cluster, and how to help it make it.
1:40 18Ripeness signs and how much honey to take.
1:40 19From frame to jar: extracting, filtering, storing.
1:40 20Lessons from season one, and your year-two plan.
1:40Population dynamics, brood cycles, and reading colony health.
1:27 2Diagnose AFB to nosema, and treat with natural methods.
1:33 3Pollen, propolis, royal jelly — harvesting beyond honey.
1:25 4Grafting, mating nucs, and raising quality queens.
1:42 5Keeping colonies productive through extreme seasons.
1:30 6Selective breeding and the behavior genes behind it.
1:33 7Sensors, scales, and data-driven hive management.
1:36 8Running safe, legal, productive hives above the city.
1:36 9Log hives, karakovan, and low-intervention methods.
1:36 10Regulations, quality standards, and earning from apitourism.
1:36Join 12,000+ beekeepers logging hives, asking questions, and mapping forage.
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