Mary is in Sparta Georgia and has a business called BeeCo Apiaries. Together with her daughter, Mary sells honey, nucs and small scale locally mated queens. 

2:17 Getting into queen rearing 

5:25 Lines of queens Mary uses 

7:30 Survivor stock 

8:15 Cell raising method 

11:30 Mating nucs 

13:30 Advice to people who are thinking of getting into queen rearing as a sideline 

15:50 What Mary is offering in her business this season

17:57 Where to find Mary

Mary’s Facebook

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Mary’s Website 

https://www.beecoapiaries.com/

Mary’s Instagram 

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Shibu is a Queen breeder in Columbia Tennessee. He sells queens, nucs and AI equipment, which he also offers training for. At the time of releasing this episode Shibu had just had a tornado go through his property and cause a lot of destruction. Below is the link to the gofundme which you can follow if you would like to support Shibu in rebuilding his business. 

Help Shibu get back on track

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https://www.facebook.com/2RiversHoneyBees

https://www.tworivershoneybees.com/

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Brandon is a queen breeder and the 3rd generation beekeeper from North Carolina USA. His business, Foothill Farm and Apiary offers nucs, production queens and breeders. In this episode Brandon tells us what it was like starting a breeding program with artificial insemination.

0:00 Introduction

2:00 A family of beekeepers 

4:00 Brandon’s breeding program

4:35 Allogrooming

7:58 Learning AI

9:54 Introducing AI queens

14:16 Drones

16:00 AI - Is it worth it?

17:13 Being treatment free for mites 

19:40 1500 chicken egg incubator for queen cells 

21:20 Where you can find Brandon online

22:05 Sting Stoppers (A bee suit suit company Brandon is affiliated with)

Email Brandon [email protected] 

https://www.facebook.com/foothillsfarmandapiary/ 

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Willie Robson is the biggest keeper of the old English black bee in the world. His family business is Chain Bridge Honey Farm, which was established in 1948 by Willie’s father. Willie has been working in the business since 1962 and now works alongside his wife and children. Chain Bridge Honey Farm is based in Horncliffe which is in the UK but right on the Scottish border. 

00:00 Introduction

2:18 The biggest English black bee breeder in the world 

7:50 Total Natural Immunity 

9:45 Varroa and Willie’s bees

10:30 Working with black bees 

11:30 Black bee reserves 

12:15 The future of the black bee in the UK

13:12 Willie’s favourite part about beekeeping

14:15 Chain Bridge Honey Farm showroom 

16:30 Advice to new beekeepers 

17:30 Brother Adam

Check out willie’s business website 

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Brad is a Canadian honey producer. He raises many of his own queens and makes the majority of his hardware. You can find Brad online at Faith Apiaries. Make sure to check out his YouTube channel where he does instructional videos and weekly vlogs.  

6:00 Brad’s apiary setup

6:50 2 queen systems 

11:04 3 nucs over 2 10 frames 

13:14 Zombie colonies 

16:44 OTS queen rearing

22:12 Wintering mating nucs

23:57 double screens with mating nucs

Brad’s YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/c/FaithApiaries-ThatBeeMan

Brad’s Facebook

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Ian Steppler is a Canadian beekeeper who breeds his own line of bees. Ian has unique cell raising and mating nuc styles that are well suited to short season commercial beekeeping. In this episode Ian goes into his cell raising process and mating nucs as well as explaining why he raises his own queens. Ian has a YouTube channel called A Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog. In this episode we discuss a lot of the things that you can see in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouifrZvFn1U

00:00 Intro

2:18 Bringing in breeding stock 

5:30 When Ian started raising his own stock

8:30 Cell builders 

21:00 Mating nucs 

You can follow Ian’s work on his YouTube Channel or on his website - https://www.stepplerfarms.com/ 

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Laurence Edwards is a beekeeper based in Northern Wales. He runs a business called ‘Black Mountain Honey’ which produces honey, nucs and queens as well as other services.

https://www.blackmountainhoney.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/@BlackMountainHoney

0:46 YouTubing

4:00 Buckfast and AMM

6:51 Duncan Simmons queens

8:47 UK mated queens

10:21 Variation in Buckfast lines

11:30 Cell building methods 

14:00 How to find Laurence online

15:25 What is Laurence selling 

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Leigh Slater is a queen breeder and honey producer in Tasmania, Australia. For 63 years Leigh has been preserving a pure strain of the old English black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera). Back in the 70s Leigh aided beekeepers in England by helping them reestablish the line by sending queens from his protection zone. The black bee was first brought to Australia over 200 years ago by the English and was the first stain of european honeybee in Australia. Since then the strain has almost entirely been replaced by other strains such as the Italian strain. To my knowledge Leigh's apiary is the only one remaining with a pure AMM strain. The current official status as well as the future of this preservation is currently unclear. 

Special thanks to Matthew Crane, Anita Long, Mick Palmer and Laurie Cowen for helping me put together this episode. 

1:00 When Leigh started beekeeping

4:13 Preserving the black bee

7:05 taking the strain back to England

9:30 Attributes of the black bee

12:00 The Tasmanian program

15:30 Leatherwood honey

17:00 Ideal honey boxes 

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Terry has been keeping bees in Ireland since he was 7 years old and has over 30 years experience. Early in his career he spent time working with Peter Donovan at Buckfast Abbey, learning the methods of Brother Adam. Terry has a business called Wicklow Bees and Honey which provides queens, nucs and honey. County below Dublin.

4:00 Feeders and Brother Adam

6:30 Started queen rearing at 14

8:00 Irish honey bee

9:40 AMM nucs 

10:00 Peter Donovan

11:30 Meeting Brother Adam

15:20 Peter Donovan’s photo book

17:10 Buckfast bee

20:10 Mating nucs

26:30 Dadant Hive

30:00 Patsy Bennett and the Teagasc Research Centre in Wexford

33:20 Where to find Terry

Terry's Website 
https://wicklowbeesandhoney.wordpress.com/

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Dan Long has a business making 3D printed queen cages and other beekeeping applications. Dan’s business is called EZPZ. His main product is a cage suitable for the JZBZ cell cup. 

4:00 Dan’s business

4:30 JZBZ system 

5:10 First 3D printer

5:35 First attempt at making cages 

6:07 Queen introduction

6:45 Candy plug

7:20 Queen cage trays

8:03 Banking

8:30 Different styles of cages

9:45 Writing on the cages 

10:45 Wax mounts

12:30 Merrill tool box

14:25 Day tripper

19:50 JZBZ set

20:10 Queen catcher

22:30 Cell bars 

23:10 Dan’s website

24:15 North American Honey Bee Expo vendor 

EZPZ Website

https://ezpz.buzz/

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