The Treatment-Free Beekeepers' Forum

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Announcements
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Introductions
Please post a new topic introducing yourself, where you are, what you do, your beekeeping experience and what you plan to do in the future.

What to Expect When You're Expecting Bees
This forum is for aspiring beekeepers to ask questions and get information on how to start keeping bees. This forum is for those who have no actual beekeeping experience. This is for making plans and getting prepared for the day.

First Year
You have just gotten your bees, either in the mail or you have gone and picked them up in person. Now what do you do? Covers from installation in your hive until the end of the first winter and the first blooms of spring.

The Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast
News and info related to the Treatment-Free Beekeeping Pocast, hosted by Solomon Parker

Basic Beekeeping
Basic beekeeping, this is beekeeping after the first winter until about the third or fourth year. You are a beekeeper, but you still have a lot to learn. Talk about normal everyday beekeeping here.

Advanced Beekeeping
Advanced beekeeping topics, the minutia and the macro, change the world and the industry.

Identifying Pests & Diseases
We don't treat for pests or diseases, but we do need to identify them. We can then breed for resistance, or destroy as necessary.

Queen Rearing
How to make queens for yourself, don't be held back by the availability from somebody who is not local to you.

Nucleus Hives
Learn how to manage nucs, and how they can add to your beekeeping success.

Expansion Model Beekeeping
Engaging a mode of expansion is how you keep ahead of mites and breed bees that can handle them. Get in the practice of staying ahead, and avoid the bad habit of always trying to catch up.

Honeybee Genetics
Discussions of honeybee genetics, epigenetics, hygiene related genetics, breeding, etc.

Honeybee Horticulture
Planting for bees.

Comb
Foundationless, Small Cell (4.9 mm) and Regression.

Scientific Research
Please place treatment free research here. There's a lot of research spread around the Internet that is related to treatment free beekeeping. This forum is an effort to try and consolidate some of this, especially new research as it becomes available.

Beekeeping Books
This forum is dedicated to listing beekeeping classics that are out of copyright, and available freely online. These can be a great source of knowledge, and are often quoted from.

Langstroth
Discussion pertaining specifically to the hive type commonly known as "Langstroth" with Hoffman frames.

Warre
Discussion pertaining specifically to hives that fall under the Warre banner.

Topbar
Discussion about all the various types and configurations of topbar hives.

British National
Discussion of British National Hives.

Layens

All Other Not Listed Above

Treatment-Free Bees and Equipment For Sale
Treatment-free bees for sale. Must be treatment free according to the forum definition for the protection of our users. Equipment as described, buyer beware.

Treatment-Free Bees and Equipment Wanted
Solicit sellers of treatment-free bees or equipment to sell to you or make themselves known to you.

Pacific Northwest
Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and Northern Nevada.

Pacific Southwest
Central and southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona, Southern New Mexico

Rocky Mountain States
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and northern New Mexico

Northern Plains States
Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa,

Mississippi Valley
Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

Great Lakes Region
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio

Southern Plains States
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

Northeast
New York Onward

Mid-Atlantic
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina

Southeast
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida

Outside the US
Anything outside the US. Forum to be divided as needed.

Home Brewing
Talk about home brewing here, mead, beer, wine, cider, etc.

Carnivorous Plants
Talk about venus flytraps, sundews, pitcher plants, and butterworts here.

Chickens
Many of us keep chickens for meat and/or eggs. Let's talk about that.

Randoms
Random regular conversations, not including politics or religion.