The Treatment-Free Beekeepers' Forum

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.