Kelly let me know how you like the Carnolians after you run them for a year. We've tried Russians and Italians, definitely prefer the Italians for productivity reasons. Russians are NOTICABLY calmer bees but WAY less honey, wasn't worth it to us. We got about 60 GALLONS of honey last year and expect to surpass that this year.
Wow, that's a lot of honey. Feel free to send me your surplus.
