Tag American beekeeping

The minister behind the modern beehive spent his life fighting severe depression, and found more relief in his bees than in his own profession.

Lorenzo Langstroth rightly gets the credit for the movable-frame hive, but the man widely regarded as the genuine father of practical, commercial-scale American beekeeping was a New York farmer who…

Every single spring, thousands upon thousands of American beekeepers restart their own lost colonies with nothing more than a screened box of loose bees and a caged queen, shipped or…

A former jeweler and watchmaker from Medina, Ohio went on to build one of the single most influential beekeeping equipment companies in American history, wrote a reference book still being…

A genuinely significant share of the foundational American beekeeping infrastructure still recognizably in use today — from a genuinely still-operating supply company to a widely referenced hive design to the…

Long before anyone built a dedicated mechanical device for it, beekeepers already understood that smoke calms bees, a fact depicted in Egyptian tomb art thousands of years before the modern…

Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810-1895) was a Philadelphia-born, Yale-educated minister often called the “Father of American Beekeeping” for developing and patenting the movable-frame hive design in 1852 that became the foundation…