HeyJaredHoney Bee Obscura Podcast
The weekly podcast exploring the joys, challenges, and curiosities of keeping honey bees. Hosted by Dr.
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Small-Scale Honey Extraction with Anne Frey (301) (opens the original)
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Honey extraction can be rewarding, but for a small operation it can also be sticky, awkward, and surprisingly hard on the wrists. In this episode of Honey Bee Obscura, Jim Tew and Anne Frey compare practical ways to get a modest honey crop from the comb without pretending there is one perfect setup. Jim traces his own path from a two-frame extractor to larger equipment at Ohio State and, decades later, back to a small extractor for seven or eight colonies. Anne suggests that beginners first borr
Reflections on the 300th Episode (opens the original)
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In this special 300th episode of Honey Bee Obscura, Dr. Jim Tew heads back to his bee yard for a thoughtful look at where the podcast began, where it has taken him, and why these weekly conversations have come to mean so much. Jim remembers how the late Kim Flottum repeatedly tried to persuade him to give podcasting a chance. Jim was committed to video and initially saw an audio-only program as a step backward. Kim, however, was persistent. What began as an experiment with short conversations ev
Small Late-Summer Colonies with Anne Frey (299) (opens the original)
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Late summer can expose the colonies that simply haven't kept pace. Maybe they're late splits, small nucs, colonies recovering from swarming, or colonies that never developed the population you expected. What should you do with them before winter? In this episode of Honey Bee Obscura , Jim Tew welcomes Anne Frey of Betterbee for a practical conversation about managing small colonies as summer gives way to fall. Anne and Jim discuss how small a colony can be and still have a reasonable chance of o
Archive Special: Fall Feeding with Kim Flottum (298) (opens the original)
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When should you feed your honey bees—and when is feeding simply masking another problem? In this Honey Bee Obscura Archive Special, we revisit a conversation between Jim Tew and the late Kim Flottum about one of beekeeping's perennial fall questions: fall feeding of colonies in preparation for winter. Kim and Jim begin with a deceptively simple question: Why are you feeding? A colony may need supplemental food because of poor forage, unfavorable weather, a newly created split, inadequate stores,
Easy Bee Plants with Anne Frey (297) (opens the original)
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What can the average beekeeper realistically plant to help honey bees and other pollinators? Jim Tew is joined by Anne Frey of Betterbee for a practical and sometimes wandering—in the best possible way—conversation about bee forage. They begin with the idea of planting wildflowers and quickly confront the question of scale. If meaningful forage can require substantial acreage, what can a beekeeper with an ordinary backyard actually accomplish? Anne suggests thinking beyond wildflower plots. A si
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