Central Beekeepers Alliance

Wanted: Beekeeping Start-Up Equipment

Starting beekeeper in the Fredericton area looking for start-up equipment for a couple of hives, and associated equipment. Call James at 260-2037.

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Bee Hive Thefts on the Rise in USA

As if American beekeepers didn’t have enough to deal with in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD — the mysterious syndrome blamed for devastating losses of honeybees in the United States last year), now there’s a new threat to their hives: crooked humans. A nationwide bee shortage resulting from CCD means demand far outweighs supply for this [...]

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History Video: Beekeeping in Transition

We know that beekeeping has been changing rapidly in recent years, but how much do we know about the care and management of honey bees as it was practised a century ago? One hundred years of beekeeping in Nova Scotia, Canada. A brief history as presented at the Nova Scotia Beekeepers’ Association annual meeting, March 2000. [...]

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Centerville Bee Yard in March: a Beekeeper’s Photographs

Do you know what this is?

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The Dramatic True Story of Burt’s Bees

It all began back in 1984 on a lonely roadside in rural Maine, when a bearded beekeeper who lived in an old turkey coop gave a lift to a young female hitchhiker. Intrigued and at loose ends, she stayed to give him a hand with the bees… The partnership blossomed into romance and, in due [...]

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