Beekeeping is a hobby with sweet rewards! Tending to bees brings its own rewards and achievements, but also a set of common challenges to be faced. Before ordering your bees and supplies, make sure you are prepared for these challenges…
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5 Challenges of Becoming a Beekeeper
Posted in Beekeeping Tagged with: backyard beekeeping, bee stings, beekeeping, beekeeping equipment, challenges of beekeeping, colony health, healthy bees, varroa mite
When to Harvest Honey
If you’re a beekeeper, you’ve probably been spending the season checking on your bees, swapping frames around, and watching your frame’s cells fill and cap with sweet rewards. September is National Honey Month and that signifies that it is time…
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How to harvest honey
It’s almost that time of year, when all your hard work and care that has gone into raising your bees pays off in a sweet way, and you’re able to harvest some of the honey they’ve produced. Honey is pretty…
Posted in Beekeeping, Miller MFG Company Tagged with: backyard beekeeping, beekeeping, bees, honey, honey harvest
FREE Little Giant Guide to Beekeeping & Honey
It’s no secret that we love bees and beekeepers here at Miller Manufacturing. We have an entire line of products dedicated to supporting beekeepers and their honey bees. We recently created a great little booklet called A Guide to Beekeeping…
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Why a Langstroth hive?
Miller Manufacturing has centralized their line of Little Giant® beekeeping supplies around the Langstroth honeybee hive design. While there other designs for hives in the market, from top bar to native pollinator bee houses, the decision to focus the Little…
Posted in Beekeeping, Little Giant®, Miller MFG Company Tagged with: backyard beekeeping, bee space, beekeeping, hive, langstroth hive, modern beekeeping