Foxhound Bee Company runs a bee keeping supply company built for helping hobbyist beekeepers with their honey bees. Before Foxhound ever sold a single bee hive, we wrote educational blogs and taught beginner classes at our local beekeeping club.
Fast forward to today, and we have a retail beekeeping store in Birmingham, Alabama, and run bee colonies all over the area. We have honey bee colonies in urban, suburban, and rural areas of town and have gained a lot of experience keeping honey bees alive.
This beekeeping blog will help new beekeepers succeed with their bees by offering quality advice from our experienced beekeeping team.
Beekeeping 101 is our most popular suite of blogs written specifically for those interested in keeping bees. You can imagine this as a precursor to any beginner beekeeping classes you might take.
These five blogs answer the significant questions everyone considering keeping their own bees, should ask. These are five beginner beekeeper posts every new beekeeper needs to read before starting.
We make a living selling beekeeping supplies and consider ourselves experts on the matter. Whether you find wild bees or buy package bees and queen bees from a supplier, you’ll need to understand beekeeping equipment.
There are many options for equipment, and we make it easier to understand.
There seem to be more questions than answers when you get started with keeping bees. Asking other beekeepers is a great way to learn, but sometimes you want to learn from an experienced beekeeper who answers these questions day in and day out with customers. Answering questions is one of the core things we offer in our beekeeping blog.
Hobbyist beekeepers need to understand a lot to practice good bee husbandry, and we are happy to provide readable and straightforward information for beekeepers.
Nothing seems more confusing when starting than learning to feed bees in your backyard. Beekeepers have so many different ways of feeding their hives, and we want to help teach which method you may want to use to help you with your beehive.
Beekeeping can be confusing for new beekeepers, and nothing can seem more complicated than how and why to feed your honeybees. Pollen, syrup, protein, essential oils are all options beekeepers should read about.
A forager honey bee is able to forage on plants in your garden and fly miles, but they still do need help getting started.
Beekeeping would be much easier if we did not have beekeeping pests like varroa mites, small hive beetles, and wax moths to deal with. These pests can usually be managed as a part of an integrated pest management plan where a beekeeper will use different methods to keep their pest levels low.
A colony can manage itself through working in its environment, but certain things like mite control and pesticides require the help of a beekeepers help.
Honey is the universal connector between beekeepers, bee enthusiasts, and honey lovers. There is nothing like getting honey from your beehive, but raw, local honey from a beekeeper is nearly as good.
Beekeepers may not think about harvesting, bottling, and dealing with honey much when getting into beekeeping, but we can help you with this new era of your hobby.
Most people think a bee is a bee, but there are three different types of bees in a colony. This is true for both native bees and our favorite pollinators, the honey bee. The queen bee is a complicated insect, and there is a lot to learn about how they function in a beehive.
The honey bee suite works together inside the hive to make the most of the nectar flow and to survive the winter dearth, and the queen is key to their success.
Pure beeswax is a one of a kind product that can’t be replicated by science. The bees make the wax from their bodies and form it into the cells we know and love. The bees use it for storing everything inside their hive and beekeepers use it for many things as well. Frombeeswax candlesto cosmetics and even for furniture, beeswax is an amazing product.
Sometimes we write in our beekeeping blog about topics that don’t have a home. Here is where those blogs land, so they have a place to collect. Bees can be complicated little bugs, so we have to write about a wide variety of topics to be a reliable source of information for you.
You’ll find posts on beekeeping gifts, pollination, beekeeping books, swarm details, and more in this category. We have done some live bee removals in the past, so that you may find a little info about those as well.
