Resources and links
From Medina Beekeepers
This is a miscellaneous page with resources that the members (okay, really just the webmaster) once found useful. If you have a resource or link that you think should be added to the list, just click the Edit button above and add it. If you think this page should be broken apart or content moved to some other page, be bold and just do it.
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General Beekeeping Links
- Beeculture Blog site
- Mother Earth News - Beekeeping Page
- http://www.beesource.com/bee-l/ BEE-L] - an informed discussion (via moderated email list) of research and information concerning the biology of bees. See also the archives and this FAQ.
- Bee Culture magazine
- George Imirie's Pink Pages
- Honey Bee Information for kids
- PBS Nova site with fun facts about honeybees
- National Honey Board information on Labeling
- Charts of hive numbers, honey production, etc worldwide and for selected countries from 1961 thru 2000
Beekeeping in the News
- honey's potential as a dietary antioxidant
- Single Bee Sends Gathering of Humans Into Helpless Panic, theOnion.com, 16 Jun 2007
Beekeeping Organizations
- OSU Honey Bee Laboratory
- International Bee Research Organization
- USDA Bee Research Laboratory
- Ohio Department of Agriculture
- OARDC Bee Lab
- American Beekeeping Federation
- Eastern Apicultural Society of North America
- Lorain County Beekeepers Assn
- Montgomery County (MD) Beekeepers Assn
- Greater Cleveland Beekeepers Assn
- Tri-County Beekeepers Assn of Northeast Ohio
Beekeeping Suppliers
- Blue Sky Bee Supply
- Betterbee
- Brushy Mountain
- Dadant
- Mann Lake
- Queen Right Colonies
- Dr Latshaw's Queens
- Walter T. Kelley Co.
Downloads
- Apiary registration form from Ohio Dept of Ag (pdf)
- Template for an Apiary Site Agreement (MS Word - 24 kb)
- Queens without grafting (pdf - 149 kb)
- Honey Reference Guide from the National Honey Board (pdf - 780 kb)
- How to keep your honey safe (pdf - 44 kb)
- The Ten Commandments of Beekeeping (pdf - 13 kb)
- Creative Beekeeping presentation, John Caldeira
Other Fun Sites
- Medina County Events - other fun things to do in Medina
- Medina County Fair
