Welcome To Apis Hive Company
Our names are Chad Ragland and Robert Ligon. Our mission is to help all beekeepers new and old alike to learn, grow and share only the most important lessons’ we’ve learned. What we’ve written here on our site will introduce you to our valuable resources and education. We hope our progressive media style makes it much easier for you learn what we have. We also hope you can benefit from what we’ve compiled and become a better beekeeper. What you will learn with us, is we never stop learning. We hope you can continue to learn along because we just don’t know everything yet! However were getting there and getting there fast. Our significant research and school of hard knocks we can and will share with you so you don’t have to learn what we have. This in turn will save you time and money. Here is mine and Robs story via power point presentation, your welcome to view it as it is! These stories are what got us where we are today. It has our vision for the future, our goals, and mission with these darn honey bees.
VIEW OUR PRESENTATION HERE: POWER POINT
Why the site?
On the Phone: Hello Hello… Yes this is Chad. I frequently get calls all the day long about bees and I love it. What if… How do you… Can you… Do you… Where do I find… Can I come… Please help me!
However long the day is, I knew I can’t spend my whole day being the 1-800 hot line for answering everyone’s questions, however I do love talking to dozens of keepers I just flat out ran out of time. We currently are connected with 1000’s of keepers across the intermountain West and beyond. With the help of modern applications on the internet like Twitter, YOUTUBE, Facebook, and our BLOG. Now you can follow with the many who have called our phones or would of called but now just get answers’ and education here at the site. And were all about making it easy and fun.
What’s Lacking in Beekeeping?
If you’re a real visual learner you and Apishive.com are a perfect match for each other. We know our content will provide what’s lacking in the industry. Example: Say you just lost your hives to a bear. (we know how you feel) We have a great section on How to build a bear fence, now it may not eliminate the chance of another attack but we’ve taken time to video ourselves following plans of really stout bear fence. Not a 100% of keeping bears out but really good odds of keeping them out. We hope you find it helpful yet educational because no one has truly ever posted a legitimate bear fence on YOUTUBE but know we have and hope you can benefit from it. Maybe it’s your first year planning to have bees but you’re not so sure how to build and paint your equipment to last. Over the years we’ve built it wrong and right and were happy to link our videos to show you how to do it right. We hope this site can be a quality site to help keepers manage the hive so your honey bees will be healthy and strong. We want success for you and the bees! Keeping healthy bees makes a difference, we know you can follow or tips and videos on this site to help you do that.
Blogging and Feedback
Most folks who are keeping bees already learned lessons. We’ve started a Blog on this site that will carry on the ideas, and lesson learned threw out the tests that have occurred and are currently in progress. If we don’t try new things then were losing bees we don’t want to lose. We hope to write a few times a week to keep you up to date with some of the bees studies were currently carrying on in the Western United States. You can select the topics were dealing with and read results there. It’s at the top of this page at any time. Furthermore many of our commercial beekeeping friends who are unable to blog or report there findings we’ve agreed to carry additional keepers projects under the blog section as well, so you will see others success and failures recorded.
What does it take to be beekeeper?
Anyone can. That’s our point: you can do it your way with your bees and use your methods. Here at Apishive Co. we just hope to share with you our successes and pass them along to you. We know everyone who wants bees or has bees is learning along side us, and we celebrate that. However, we have ideas that don’t work for this area and ideas that do work. We’ve formatted them for easy absorption and application. We teach those who want to listen or read ideals that give you sustainable beekeeping practices.
Our passion is teaching people to be aware of bees, growing more keepers, keeping bees alive, researching bee behavior, harvesting honey, pollinating crops, selling honey bees, and living our dream. That is what Apishive.com is all about.
