About Beekeeping Log
Who builds Beekeeping Log, what the tools are for, how the site is funded, and why every figure on it comes from an extension or USDA source.
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Paul Gunder founded Rocky Mountain Apps, a small studio that builds calculators and reference tools, and he built the tools on this site the same way he builds the others: starting from a specific published source, then checking the arithmetic against it rather than against a general impression of the subject.
Every figure a tool on this site prints traces back to a cited source: a university extension publication, a USDA dataset, the Honey Bee Health Coalition's guide, a NIST or NBS standard, or a published sticky-board reference such as Ontario's OMAFRA, the World Organisation for Animal Health or the UK's National Bee Unit — never the site's own opinion. Where a source gives a threshold, a range or a formula, a tool uses that source's own numbers; where a source doesn't say something, the tool doesn't fill the gap with a house opinion.
The site has one paid product, the Apiary Season Tracker, a $12 one-time spreadsheet for inspections, mite counts, feeding and honey costs across up to 20 hives. It is not on sale yet; its page lists what it will include. The site may carry ads later, and none are live. Whatever you enter into a tool — inspection notes, mite counts, a season's cost line items — stays in your browser and isn't collected or sent anywhere.
Beekeeping Log isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by any university extension service, by USDA, or by the Honey Bee Health Coalition; it cites their published work and links back to it.
Found a figure that doesn't match a cited source, or a source that's since been updated? Get in touch to report it.