Mind Your Hives Beekeeping
Episodes
The Bee Side - Silly Gooses with Evan Watson of Plan Bee Farm Brewery
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greg and Kara Jo are hanging with Evan Watson - co-owner / farmer / brewer / beekeeper of Plan Bee Farm Brewery. Evan is one of the sweetest and most ...
Ep. 40 - Summer on the Farm
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is SUMMER and the farm is crankin'! Bee wise we're talking: honey, pulling honey frames, crowded hives, requeening, angry bees, excluders, ...
Ep. 39 - Learning After Knowing It All
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy spring beekeepers! We're talking all things spring on the farm - splitting hives, stopping swarming, some heartbreak, tricky situations, bee...
Ep. 38 - Planning for the Year Ahead
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back and we’re planning for the year ahead - spring is so close!! We discuss goals and how we work backwards to accomplish them; new plans a...
Ep. 37 - Headed into Winter
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Bee Farm is headed into winter. In the midst of a drought and record high temps for October and November, we're doing our best to get these bees r...
Ep. 36 - Do We Over Manage our Hives?
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're all over the place. Current apiary updates. Successful and unsuccessful mite treatments. What's up with all these people callin...
Ep. 35 - Time to Harvest! Time to Mite Test?
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summer is on its way out which means we've been harvesting honey and we need to make sure our bees are on the right track to survive winter. Kara ...
Ep. 34 - Summertime and the Beekeepin' Ain't Always Easy!
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What up! We're talking about chicken life on the farm, selling bees, following up about splits, queen introductions and some crazy hive situations...
Ep. 33 - Spring is Crankin'!
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about the best time to be a beekeeper - the spring! Spring time is swarm time and swarm time is splittin' time. Amongst other things, we...
Ep. 32 - First Inspections of the Season!
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and I hop over to the mics straight out of the apiary after the 2024 seasons first inspections. Our spring has been cold and rainy so far and we&...
Ep. 31 - Can You Stop Your Bees from Swarming?
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First we talk how understanding bee biology can help in decision making with a deep dive on the effects of pollen feeding followed by whether we think...
Ep. 30 - Beginner Beekeeping Decisions and Bad Teachers
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is almost spring!! And for many that means starting their first year keeping bees. We're answering some common beginner questions including equ...
The Bee Side - Can Lawn Guys and Beekeepers Be Friends?!
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bee Side Episode! We're hanging out with Chris Stoudt of Stout Lawn and Pest and host of The Root Zone Podcast. We talk winter lawn practices, spr...
Ep. 29 - Beekeeping with a Purpose
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about beekeeping with a purpose and how it can help in your decision making, why hive deaths aren't necessarily bad and how we d...
Ep.28 - Off-Season Prep and Questions Answered
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking off-season prep, building our forest apiary, revisiting Bee Venom Therapy and answering your questions! This episode is brought to ...
Ep. 27 - The Good, Bad and Ugly side of Farmers' Markets
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking our current November beekeeping including adding some robbing screens to help against Yellow Jackets and taking a trip down memory lane ...
Ep. 26 - Don't Do That - Beekeeping Pet Peeves
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are lots of ways to beekeep but some styles (people?) really bother us...we're talking pet peeves, how we determine our top queen lines, mite fo...
Ep. 25 - Fall Beekeping is Upon Us
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Jo and Greg are talking about their apiary after the late summer mite treatments. The varroa debacle in Australia. A surprise swarm catch. What t...
Ep. 24 - Winning Against Mites
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The battle against mites hits its peak this time of year. We're talking testing for varroa and how we keep our bees healthy NOW before going into wint...
Ep. 23 - Little Did We Know! Moving Bees and Starting Over
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're talking about building our new farm, moving bees unexpectedly and how crazy life has been the past few months. We're dri...
Ep. 22 - How We Split Our Hives
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are talking all about how we make splits while sipping on our newest collaboration beer from Threes Brewing in NYC. The beer name is 'Little Did We...
Ep. 21 - Coming out of Winter with Bees / A Beginner's Spring
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Spring! We're letting y'all know what we're seeing in our apiaries this time of year and how we approach the spring season. We finis...
Ep. 20 - Q&A February 2023
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the beekeeper's offseason and we're answering your questions! Thanks for asking 'em. All episodes are brought to you by KaraJoSkinCar...
The Bee Side - Backyard Chickens
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chickens have been a part of our little farm's ecosystem since before we even had bees. On this Bee Side we're talking about our backyard chicke...
Ep 19. Did Honey Bees Really Bring Down a Cannabis Kingpin??
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a fun one. We're talking about the current state of our hives, a recent deer tick bite, some mind blowing herbalism, and...
Ep. 18 - Winter is coming! Continuing the prep.
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We recorded this episode in early October and discuss our final winter preparations and a look back into some of the trends from the 2022 season.
The Bee Side: Regenerative Farming with Thom Pearsall of Everwild Farm
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Bee Side we're talking with Farmer Thom from Everwild Farm in Ambler, PA! There's so much crossover to how Everwild appro...
Ep. 17 - Pre-Prepping for Winter. Let's Make some FAT Bees!
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Preparing your bees for winter starts in the spring, but right now is CRUCIAL. It's right now that winter bees aka FAT bees are being made. &nbs...
The Bee Side - Honey Cocktails with Mixologist Mike Landers
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this Bee Side - we're talking to Philadelphia Mixologist Mike Landers about cocktails. We dive into honey simple syrup, herb / flower infusions, ...
Ep. 16 - What's up with State Bee Inspectors?
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking our recent State Inspector visit, bad bee sellers, harvesting honey, Formic Pro for mites and more - all while weathering some wicked st...
Ep. 15 - Baby Chicks, Shout-outs, Cut-outs and Questions!
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about all things going on around the farm! Our new baby chicks hang out in the background while we discuss an unfortunate cutout s...
Ep. 14 - Spring Has Arrived - Let's Split Some Hives!
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spring has arrived and the bees are swarming! We're talking swarm prevention, how we make splits and why understanding bee math and life cycles is s...
Bonus Episode: Follow-up about first inspections!
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a little bonus episode that we recorded right after doing some hive autopsies like we discussed in Episode 13. This one also has a specia...
Ep. 13 - Spring Patience and Preparing for that First Inspection of the Year!
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about staying out of the hives until nature tells us its time to inspect. Are beekeepers over-treating for mites? And how we...
Ep. 12 Q&A January 2022
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Its cold out and we're answering questions. Thanks for sending them in! And shout out to Full Circle Everest Expedition Team who we talk a...
Ep. 11 - What did 2021 Teach Us? Kara Jo's Bee Sting Allergy and Winter Prep Follow-Up
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're recapping some lessons we learned during the 2021 beekeeping season and finally discuss Kara Jo's Bee Sting Allergy along with a little follow-u...
Ep. 10 - Late Season Mite Control and Winter Prep
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've talked in depth about the dreaded Varroa Mite and this time we have to act! Hear how we are handling an unusually high mite load and how we're...
Ep. 9 - Hurricane Ida - F*** YOU.
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
September 1st 2021 changed everything for us - here is the story.
Ep. 8 - Day Drinking on a Lake
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're day drinking booze made with honey while sitting next to the First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, NH! We talk about a crazy (turned amazin...
Ep. 7 - Mad About Honey and Comedian Encounters
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking hallucinogenic honey, why we let the bees work their magic and a fun encounter with the super talented Actor / Writer / Comedian Wil Syl...
Episode 6: Queen Bees and Drama Queens
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Its been busy on the Kara Jo Bee Farm lately! In Ep. 6 we laugh about the recent "bee influencer" drama before diving into the world of Queen Be...
Ep. 5 - Springtime is Swarm Time!
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bee Swarms seemed so gnarly until we got to understand them better and like everything with bees - they are fascinating! We talk swarm basics an...
Ep.4 - Honey Bees aren't the Bees that Need Saving
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about how “Saving the Bees” is more about protecting native wild bees rather than the non-native honeybee. And we give you tips on yard/ga...
Ep. 3 - Bee Venom Therapy
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greg and Kara Jo discuss all things Bee Venom Therapy. Currently Greg is doing BVT for pain management and they discuss the science and protocol beh...
Ep. 2 - Apitherapy - What is it?! Part 1 - Honey, Propolis, Pollen and Beeswax
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2 we talk the ancient medicine of Apitherapy! This will be a two part episode with the first about all things Honey, Pollen, Propolis and...
How'd We Get Here? Episode 1.
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beekeeping has changed our way of life and our outlook on just about everything! How'd we get here and what should you expect from this podcast. Tha...