With beekeepers up and down the country feeling the pinch of rising costs and honey prices well below recent highs, veteran beekeeper John Berry has some practical advice beekeeping when the chips are down.

Whether its public nuisance, ?? or just an unproductive spot, Hawke’s Bay beekeeper John Berry has witnessed many poorly-located beehives through the years (some, on reflection, his own!). He shares what he’s learnt, and some best-practice does and don’ts.

As with all things related to beekeeping, there are many right ways to do things, but this is how I conduct my wintering down of beehives...

I went out specifically to poison a wasp nest on a friend’s place today. I was hoping to get some live-action photos to go with this...

Bees are livestock. Like all forms of livestock, they have been subject to selective pressure for a very long time...

Drought can be soul destroying for both farmers and beekeepers and droughts can be a fairly common occurrence here on the East Coast...

Like most things beekeeping there are innumerable ways of raising cells and one method is not necessarily better than another...

Swarming is how hives reproduce, it has been an essential part of bees lives for millennia. It is, however, not an essential part of beekeep

There’s nothing more important to the sustainability of most beekeeping operations than the ability to maximise honey production...

This subject is important to me. When I was young I was working a poorly sited apiary beside a road when a girl walked past. If I close my..