Growing a better future...
Honeybee Keep manages Colorado's FIRST Certified Naturally Grown Apiaries:
Thinking of becoming a beekeeper? "... until you are standing alone in your bee suit in your backyard and open a hive to a swarm of mad bees, or start breaking comb and killing bees, or inspecting your hive and your smoker goes out….nothing you read about or was told in a classroom will help you. You need a mentor and you need experience." Read the rest in Mentee Testimonial.
Don Studinski, dba Honeybee Keep, is a principal permaculture enthusiast at Living Systems Institute (LSI) where he applies permaculture philosophy to beekeeping. Apiaries under Don's management are located from Lakewood to Hygiene, 24 hives spanning about 50 miles. Don's beekeeping articles have been published in Bee Culture magazine and on-line at Honeybee Haven, Peak Prosperity and Pesticide Action Network. As a beekeeping mentor, Don provides advice and counsel for students throughout the United States. Colorado Bees for Colorado Beekeepers is his latest project which will provide nucleus colonies for sale in May, 2013. Learn more about beekeeping, read free articles and see all the services provided by Honeybee Keep on line at HoneybeeKeep.com.
Free Honeybee Disease Diagnosis: Click here to get to the USDA sample submission instructions.
Portions of our Beekeeping web pages are under construction. This means you may run into text that needs revision. Don is writing all this himself, so it progresses as his time allows. If you run into something that is incomplete and you want it pushed to a higher priority, please just let us know. You can reach Don by cell phone using 303-248-6677 or by email using email@example.com.
Broomfield, CO 80038
Primary apiary address:
Living Systems Institute
14020 W. 32nd Ave
Golden, CO 80401
The estimated population of the United States is 314,374,297
so each citizen's share of this debt is $52,426.49.
Honeybee Keep is proud to be in cooperation and / or partnership with:
Don Studinski is proud to be a member of:
Colorado Proud, a Colorado Department of Agriculture program.
Colorado State Beekeepers Association (CSBA)
November of 2012, Don was elected advisor to the president, a board position, and appointed chairman of the Pesticide Committee.
Honeybee Keep is using an out-of-the-ordinary business model. It's based on community sufficiencey technologies. Some folks have noticed what we are doing and have even chosen to blog about it. Here's another blog about it. Here's a third. This article was written for Chris Martenson by Don at Chris' request. My friend, Sid, also wrote about our work.
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Honeybee Haven asked Don to write this article for their blog. You can listen to Don's 3/12/2012 interview about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) on Organic View Radio by clicking here. Tom Theobald, of Boulder County Beekeeper's Associatioin, writes about Don's interview and points to Don's CCD article. Nick Roldan used quotes from Don's writing in his Beekeeping research paper 4/4/2013 for Farming Class. Ph.D. candidate, Laurent Cilia, interviewed Don about CCD 4/8/2013.
Stonyfield Farm, in New Hampshire, featured Don's work here in August of 2012.
Here's a reference in Apis Newsletter to the Bee Culture article Don wrote about honeybee cells in June, 2011. Bee Culture has also published Don's Bee Candy article September of 2012. BCBA featured Don's Candy article for their October, 2012 meeting having Don as a guest speaker.
November, 2012, Botanical Gardens had Don and three other distinguished beekeepers as a panel to answer questions after they showed Queen of the Sun to an audience of 300 Denver area citizens.
April 22, 2013, Don was contacted by Ethan Pang on behalf of Penang Butterfly Farm, Malaysia. They have taken note of some of the photos here at Honeybee Keep and will be using them in their honeybee display.
May 3, 2013, public presentation for Waste Farmers at Timberline Gardens in Arvada, CO, concerning declining honeybee population, aid a typical citizen can provide and fun things Honeybee Keep students are doing.
April 29, 2013, Honeybee Haven published this guest blog written by Don concerning winter losses.