Intro - didn't find this section of the forum before!
Three year beek who has 2 top bar hives and is looking into building a 'long lang' so I can super it for additional honey.
Built top bar hives and gotten 2 packages of carnies - both survived first winter (2012), but lost one hive in the...
Jumping in with both feet here -
I'm taking a beekeepers intro class through local forest preserve (1x/mo for 6mo). By the end of it, I'll have enough knowledge to go forward. Unlike our chicken interest, I wasn't afraid of the critters. I knew how hard a bird bite was and that I could...