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Education

Below you will find links to educational and news-worthy articles, presentations, books, brochures, etc. that relate to beekeeping. To add to this list, please click this link to e-mail your suggestion.

New Jersey (Statewide) Beekeepers Association

• NJBA publications web page.
• NJBA short courses, seminars, videos, marketing materials, etc.
• NJBA pollen and bloom dates schedule web page.

Plans for Building Your Own Bee Equipment

• Bee.Source.com - probably the best known source for plans.
• Plans from Woodworker's Wood Shop

Beekeeping Forums & Blogs

• Yahoo! "Beekeeping" Forum
• Yahoo! "NJBeekeepers" Forum
• Northwest NJ Beekeepers Association Forum
• Richard Schluger's blog - starting beekeeping with first nuc in May, 2009.

Honey Bee Swarms

• Honey Bee Swarms Brochure authored by ECBS's own Pier Guidi.
• Swarming (Honey Bee). Wikipedia article.
• Honey Bee Removal & Swarm Management services on the Products and Services web page.

Diseases & Pest Control - Medications

• Integrated Pest Mgmt: Varroa Mite Control by Landi Simone (PDF)
• Integrated Pest Mgmt: American Foulbrood & Varroa Mites by Landi Simone (PDF)
• USDA Wallace Bee Research Center (Beltsville, MD)
• USDA Carl Hayden Bee Research Center (Tucson, AZ)

Feeding Your Bees

• Cass Cohenour’s (West Va. beekeper) Bee Feeding Recipes
• ECBS's Joe Treimel's Easy "Bee Candy" Recipe.
• Short video on Hive Feeding Equipment

Extracting Honey

• Get an experienced helper/mentor the first time.  To get ready -- read a "how to book" so you have a good idea of what's needed and what it takes: equipment and effort. 
• Summary article "Honey Collection and Extraction"

Labeling Honey Products

• Honey Labeling Information form National Honey Board

Honey & Honey Recipes

• National Honey Board Honey Recipes
• Sue Bee Honey Recipes
• Understanding the Varieties of Honey (National Honey Board) A Beautiful document.

Local Honey & Alleviating Allergies

• ECBS Member's web site with a quick summary on the topic

Making Mead from Honey

• "Making Mead" (PDF Document)

Apitherapy

• Northeast Beekeepers Association member:
  Tom Fuscaldo 429 Preakness Paterson, NJ 07502 (973) 942.5066 tomfuscaldo@aol.com
• "...a group of people passionately loving bees, human and animal beings...! "Click here.
• "...devoted to advancing the investigation and ...use of honey bee products ..." Click here.

An impressive bee resource web page! Click here.