This is Sam's talk at Apimondia 2019, it appears to be a condensed version of "Treatment-Free but not Stupid." Video courtesy of Angela Tollerson. If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please consider becoming a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks. Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://www.tfbforum.com Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/ Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping Conventional beekeeping practices are damaging to the bee population and new beekeepers are often pressured into keeping bees in conventional ways. Treatment-Free Beekeepers of which this channel is a part, is a project I started as a space for treatment-free beekeepers to gather and discuss methods for beekeeping as well as successes and failures, all within a context where they will never be criticized or berated for their choice not to dump pesticides into their hives. It is the only such space on the internet that I am aware of, and has become wildly popular. When I started it, I expected a couple hundred members who would have lots of fun but limited reach. Now it has over 32,000 members and is the third largest beekeeping group on Facebook. This channel is a resource for that effort. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qVLTTS4q4

In this video, I demonstrate how easy it is to assemble a basic swarm trap. Even using brand new materials, this trap could be assembled for less than $50, and with used materials, much cheaper. Locally, package bees are sold for around $150 each. For that price you could build three swarm traps which will provide you free bees indefinitely. And you won't have to wait around the phone for swarm calls. The swarms will come to you. Check out my swarm trapping page at http://www.parkerbees.com/swarmtrapping.html If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks. Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/ Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfxJryzYXjw

In this video from 2017's Tenth Annual Organically Managed Beekeeping Conference, treatment-free beekeeping guru Michael Bush talks about how TF beekeeping requires much less work and management than conventional beekeeping, and in fact by using certain practices, or lack of them, can make beekeeping less stressful and less work. If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks. Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/ Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atMAjOC73Y

Conventional beekeeping practices are damaging to the bee population and new beekeepers are often pressured into keeping bees in conventional ways. Treatment-Free Beekeepers of which this channel is a part, is a project I started as a space for treatment-free beekeepers to gather and discuss methods for beekeeping as well as successes and failures, all within a context where they will never be criticized or berated for their choice not to dump pesticides into their hives. It is the only such space on the internet that I am aware of, and has become wildly popular. When I started it, I expected a couple hundred members who would have lots of fun but limited reach. Now it has over 32,000 members and is the third largest beekeeping group on Facebook. This channel is a resource for that effort. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUZBvTyBGIk