We have a bee hive in our back yard. They took over a large squirrel house.
It’s hanging from a limb about 25 ft up so it’s going to be hard to do anything with it. It’s getting very very heavy and it might fall anytime. They swarm 2 or 3 times a year. I’d like to think we have a good reproducing hive of healthy bees. My husband wants the honey.
I buy dark local honey from a local market. Never a grocery store.
Getting the honey out of that hive as it is will kill the hive and the bees are more valuable than the honey.
If you want to get into beekeeping, you’ve already got a bee source.