The beekeeping conversations nobody else is having

Every month I sit down with someone worth listening to and we talk bees. The challenges, the techniques and your questions answered.

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What we talk about

Sometimes it's a guest who knows their subject better than almost anyone in the country. Sometimes it's me picking apart a decision I got wrong last season and what it cost me. Either way we talk properly, and we don't dress it up.

Over a year you'll hear us get into:

• Seasonal management, and how to plan a year that doesn't run away from you
• Swarm control and queen performance, including the calls that go badly
• Equipment choices, and what's actually worth the money
• Honey production, from the flow through to the jar
• The realities of running a beekeeping business
• Where the industry's heading, and what that means for the rest of us

Everything gets explained in plain English. It's the conversation you'd get if you turned up at the apiary with a flask and an hour to spare.

How to listen

Every episode comes in two parts.

The highlights are free, and they're here on the site. Around seven minutes of the sharpest bits, with written show notes underneath so you can skim the lot in a couple of minutes.

The full conversation runs 35 to 40 minutes and lives inside HiveQ, our members' community. That's where it gets interesting. The tangents, the disagreements, and the bits we probably shouldn't be saying out loud.

Your first month of HiveQ is free, so you can hear a full episode before you decide whether it's for you.