🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

I hope it's profitable for you and stays enjoyable.
I really want to keep it to 3 or even just 2 hives and a resource hive. 4 full hives was more than we wanted.
Here's hoping to a good overwinter for all of us here.

Not so much concerned with profit, just bee equipment, maintenance of, and bee health. I may sell one split to the couple we're helping. They wanted to buy the split this past spring. From what I know there are only 5 hives in a 5 mile radius, our 3, the couple we are helping and 1 on the main drag in the front yard. I suspect this one is a lawn ornament because there is maybe an 8'x8' piece rotovated ground around it for possibly a flower bed. Pretty expensive center piece for a flower bed though.

 

[Sally PB]

I suspect this one is a lawn ornament because there is maybe an 8'x8' piece rotovated ground around it for possibly a flower bed. Pretty expensive center piece for a flower bed though.

Yup. But not many people will know if there are actually bees in there. So if the bees don't survive, they can just leave it there anyway. Paint it every now and then to keep it looking new.
SMH

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Yup. But not many people will know if there are actually bees in there. So if the bees don't survive, they can just leave it there anyway. Paint it every now and then to keep it looking new.
SMH

Maybe get lucky and get a swarm, looks like wax dipped leaving that natural wood look.

 

[Sally PB]

My bee guy had a deep box with frames sitting in his barn. He went out to clean it up and found he'd caught a swarm!

 

[drstratton]

My bee guy had a deep box with frames sitting in his barn. He went out to clean it up and found he'd caught a swarm!

That would be fun to find.

 

[drstratton]

Randy Oliver's newest work webinar.
October 28th. If anyone is interested sign up here.
https://nybeewellness.org/

Thank you @Apis mellifera for sharing this information.

 

[drstratton]

Today's agenda: Honey extraction and feeding if needed.
I hope the smell of the buckwheat honey doesn't chase us out of the bee shed...lol
Need to install gate valves on 2 more 5g buckets.

 

[Apis mellifera]

Thank you for sharing this information.

If you're interested in OA mite treatments, an excellent presentation by Greg Rogers was posted this morning on Bob Binnies youtube channel.

 

[drstratton]

If you're interested in OA mite treatments, an excellent presentation by Greg Rogers was posted this morning on Bob Binnies youtube channel.

Thank you. I will definitely watch that.

 

[drstratton]

Checked the hives, I won't need to add syrup today.

Just waiting for the extracting room to warm up.

Busy girls this morning.