Posted on 03/23/2019 10:57:03 AM PDT by Dacula
Looking to see if any FReepers are Beekeepers. Any tips and hints for a successful hive would be appreicaited.
My tiny town allows bees, chickens, & livestock inside the city limits.
Neighbor has bees that visit my garden & orchards. Fine with me.
But now he’s got a horse. City ordinance requires at least 2 acres per livestock animal. His yard is about 1/8 acre. He’s got the horse confined in an 8’x 8’ dog pen.
Should I complain?
I lived in Rome and Athens, Ga. Glad to hear from Suburban Atlanta, Ga. I keep various water saucers in my back yard for the area cats, birds, bees, squirrels, and have on occasion been visited by raccoons and foxes. My house in inside the Denver City limits. About 2 times per year I put stale bread(winter) out for the birds and squirrels. Other wise I just let the wild life hunt and gather for their food.
Thanks. Spent many days in Wewa and on the Chipola river but never saw that movie.
I can’t speak personally to your questions but I have a 21 year old college student who works part time for me who manages @ 9,000 hives across 3 states. Last year he harvested 40 tons of honey.
When I four years old, maybe five, I received a cool bee toy. It was a plastic bee that you swung around your head and it buzzed like a real bee. I thought it would be neat to show my new toy to the bees collecting nectar in the empty lot next door.
I learned a lot about bees that day.
Look up honey prices online, if it was possible not sure if you can but if you had a garden with manuka bushes you would get a highly sought after honey. It goes for an outrageous price on eBay.
All natural raw is sought after, basically its the antioxidants.
If you live near Colorado Springs contact Mike Halby, president of the local Beekeepers Club.
I had one of those toys! I miss those kind of simple things.
My son was in the only scout troop in the country that still offers a bee keeping merit badge. In fact, they had to have them specially sewn. That said, the man who leads that badge told me he sprinkles powdered sugar on the bees in his hives. He said as the bees groom themselves they remove the mites.
I hope to take some classes in it some day.
Back in high school, it was touched on in auto mechanics class. Then I was wearing thick glasses. Too much grief with a helmet. After lasik, different world.
A real life version of Good Neighbors.
My dad raised bees.
You can subscribe to a periodical called
Gleanings in Bee Culture, that has all the
latest news and tips.
county beekeeper associations
Type the above into a search engine and see if you get any info.
Zip or County name may also help..
I sure dont disagree.
I am a beekeeper of sorts...
not honeybees, mason bees!
Good luck Dacula, we keep bees I think over 8 years, we enjoy it. Its has not been very lucrative the last few years. but last year was a little better, here in NE Florida.
I tell people if they are just interested, maybe skip it, if you love it and can’t read and learn enough, try it. The bees know what they are doing and in my opinion require a lot less help than we think they do.
Good luck, the bees will teach you so much, they are extremely interesting creatures, they will show you the wonder of God. The hive is an intricately designed mechanism, and the bee itself is awesome.
Have questions, ask.
Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets. Bumble bees are cool. Have seen Africanized bees hiving....no thanks.
Watch for small hive beatle.
Little shits tore my bees up last year.
We have two hives on our farm on Lookout Mountain. List one over the winter, but hope this year to expand to three. We grow lavender and blueberries.
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