Master the Art of Beekeeping

Your Go-To Resource for Expert Tips, Guides and Advice for confident Beekeepers.

Beginner Beekeeping Essentials

Introductory Guides and Tips for those new to the hobby of keeping bees. Learn how to keep your bee hive producing honey.

Bee Keeping Apiculture Techniques

For hobbyists looking to take their bee keeping skills to the next level. Advanced troubleshooting such as mites and splits.

Bee Hive Supplies

Whether your are a DIY or looking for the best honey bee supplies for your colony, we have all the details to get you started!

Bee Keepers Natural Practices

We love to find ways to work with nature rather than try to outsmart it. Natural beekeeping is such a sustainable way of doing so, we are building our library of practices to support you in the change.

Homestead Bee Hives

With such a wonderful input to output ratio, its no wonder that beekeeping and self sufficient homesteading go together!

Beekeeping Clubs Near Me

Search our global directory of the best beekeeping clubs and associations within your region. We have compiled a thorough list for the major beekeeping regions of the world. Can you find your club?

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Featured Articles

Do Bees Have Compound Eyes?

Wondering if bees have compound eyes? Bees have two compound eyes and 3 simple eyes or ocelli. This means bees have 5 eyes. In a worker bee, each compound eye has 6900 facets – each facet is a small eye, meaning that bees really have 13803 eyes. For simplicity, we ...

Do Yellow Jackets Kill Honeybees

In this article, we look at what a yellow jacket wasp is and if yellow jackets kill honeybees. Then we look at how yellow jackets and honeybees interact. Once we understand this interaction it is possible to protect our honeybees from yellow jackets. We can also find yellow jacket hives ...

How To Ventilate A Beehive

In this article, we look at how to ventilate a beehive. Beehive hive ventilation is important to reduce humidity in the hive. Beehive ventilation is particularly important in summer when the bees can develop heat and humidity stress. Why It Is Important To Ventilate A Beehive Bees, just like us, ...

How to Get Rid of Bumblebees Without Killing Them

In this article, we will look at how to make bumblebees go away without killing them. If we cannot make them go away, then we will look at how to remove them, and finally, once we have got rid of them, we need to look at how to stop them ...

What Does A Honey Bee Hive Look Like?

I am a beekeeper and in my twenty-five years of beekeeping, I have removed wild honeybee hives from some amazing places and learnt what a wild honeybee hive looks like and how it fits together. In this article, we will look at what a honey bee hive looks like, where ...

How To Raise Honey Bees For Profit

In this article, we look at how to raise honey bees for profit and how many bee hives to make a living. Beekeeping for profit is a complex subject because it involves an actual definition of what profit is. We will go into that. With new technological advances, beekeeping is ...

Queen Cell Stages

In this article, we look at how bees initiate queen cell development and how the stages of queen cell development progress. The queen cell timeline starts with a freshly fertilized egg and ends with the emergence of a young virgin queen. This is a process that is crucial to the ...

Protecting Beehives From Bears

In this article, we look at how to protect beehives from bears. This starts with the simplest of steps - methods to keep bears away from the bees. Should these methods fail, we look at the second line of defense, protecting your bees from the bears. Who Contributes To This ...

How Long Can A Hive Be Queenless?

In this article, we look at what happens to a hive when it is queenless and how long can a hive be queenless. You will see that a hive can be queenless for a short period of time before changes occur in the hive. If these changes reach a specific ...

About Us

Dr. Garth A. Cambray is a Canadian/South African entrepreneur and beekeeper with 28 years of experience in apiculture and specializes in adding value to honey. His Ph.D. research developed a new advanced continuous fermentation method for making mead that has resulted in a number of companies globally being able to access markets for mead. His company, Makana Meadery, exports honey mead to the USA where it is available to discerning connoisseurs.

He has also developed technologies to commercially manufacture organic honey vinegar in Zambia for export globally. He holds a few patents globally in the ethanol industry and believes in technology and knowledge transfer for human development and environmental sustainability. One of his proudest achievements is the fact that the wind farm he started at one of his old apiary sites has essentially made his hometown carbon neutral.

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