Geek.Farm.Life

Comment by seth gray

March 18, 2007 @ 9:40 pm

what some resource for bee keeping web site, books

Comment by John G

March 19, 2007 @ 9:09 am

Indiana grows a LOT of tomatoes. In fact, Red Gold, a great tomato canner, is in Elwood, Indiana, whose product compares favorably with the great San Marcano roma tomatoes from Campagna.

Tom is a fantastic guest! People generally do not realize the economic impact bees have. Thanks Tom!

Comment by Ellen Bloomfield

March 19, 2007 @ 12:27 pm

Wow, that’s a lot of maple syrup. Are you using that and honey in place of granulated sugar?

Comment by misty

March 19, 2007 @ 12:33 pm

Hi Ellen! We have substituted evaporated cane juice for most of our granulated sugar consumption. We just use the syrup for things that would normally have syrup, glazes for meats, etc. We do use quite a bit of honey in making bread and soap, as well as in teas etc.

Comment by Tom

March 20, 2007 @ 9:23 pm

Hi Seth,

My favorite online resource is beesource.com. I’ve tried posting links here before and it didn’t work so well. Instead I’ll guide you to 2 really important places on that site.

On the menu at left, find “Bees and supplies”. Click that and then “U.S. Beekeeping Associations”. If you live in the U.S. that will get you to people in your area who want to help you get started. You will find that beeks (beekeepers) are a great bunch of folks who love to share the love. Go meet them.

Back to the main page now, and the menu at left. Click “Digital Dialogue”. On that page find and click “Beesource Bulletin Board”. That’s an online discussion where you can talk about bees and ask questions. If you are a complete noob, don’t worry. “Beekeeping 101″ is just the right place to ask your first questions. Yes, you have to register. That’s protection to make certain that you are talking only to beeks and won’t have to read ads for stocks, drugs, and all of that other nonsense. It’s a really clean forum. Enjoy.

Are you on the way to becoming a beek? Please remember this site and keep us posted!

Best,
Tom

Comment by Dawn

March 22, 2007 @ 1:49 pm

Thanks for another great show.

We currently live on the Big Island of Hawaii and the last place we rented had 10 acres. The landlord let a beekeeper use a small portion of it for his bees. We probably had 100 towers (not sure if that is the correct word)3 boxes deep just off our front yard. They raised queens to be sent to the mainland because there are no mites over here.

We lived totally off the gird there but that is a story for another day. :)

Dawn

Comment by India

March 22, 2007 @ 2:46 pm

Het, Misty - I tried to leave my URL for the ‘Which flavour of Knitter are you?’ meme, but I can’t remember my login/password and the form won’t let me comment. SOmetimes the simplest technology is too much for me…
Anyway, my URL is http://twelfthknit.blogspot.com

India

Comment by andrew

March 22, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

Hey India, Dawn!

Now I’m sure there would be some interesting stories about living off grid Dawn. If you’re interested in telling us how it went it would be a fun time to have you on as a guest. Would you be interested?

Thanks for all the resources Tom!

-Andrew