Last year we ended with 70 pounds of honey and two very healthy hives. We did our best to keep both hives alive, treating them for mites in the fall and making certain we left enough honey for their own source of food over winter. We supplemented with sugar as well. Despite these efforts –
Our first year of beekeeping was a great success. Typically, it’s not common to harvest honey from a new hive in the first year as it takes time for a colony to mature. However, if the nectar flow is strong, keepers can harvest if they consider what the bee colony will require for winter survival.
It was a busy Saturday – we got several things accomplished today, the biggest was our bees arrived and have been installed in their new homes. We picked them up in the rain about 9 am today and after some work to get some sugar syrup made we loaded the nuc’s on the Razr and
