It ’s been a long time since I keep bees , but my Quaker Sam fromScrubland Farmzjust hooked me up .
He arrived belatedly on Monday the 18th – 11PM – having tug all the way up from the Orange Springs , and we put two nuc corner of bees in the backyard .
Then on Tuesday morning , we got them properly set up .
The two urtication are now near the back of the grassy orbit behind our gardens .
We put them on a palette for now .
A nuc boxful just has five frames in it and is the base of a bee settlement .
The box on the left hand has a smaller population and contains a drove Sam captured . The boxful on the right is almost full of bees already and came from a colony split .
I plan to keep bee in a few dissimilar ways . I ’m not convinced that the Langstroth beehive conception is the best for the bees and am frantically reading as much as I can .
presently on the bedside table areKeeping Bees with a Smileby Fedor Lazutin and Dr. Leo Sharaskin , as well asThe Barefoot Beekeeperby Philip Chandler .
I currently have two Langstroth hives on lodge so I can transfer these nuc colony into them and get the bees set out , but I would wish to move into deep build horizontal hives .
I also purchased all the materials to make a “ Langstroth Long ” hive today , which is sort of a hybrid of a Langstroth and a Top Bar hive .
As a side note : making the Langstroth Long hive fromLeo Sharaskin ’s plansis supposed to be less than $ 60 ; however , with our current runaway inflation it cost me over $ 200 for the material ! And I do n’t even have the frames for them yet ! The Sir Henry Wood alone was over $ 100 , then we had to get paint , screws , and some router bits … theLangstroth abstruse beehive with framing from Dadantare actually loud ! The monetary value of everything is make me ghastly …
No use sound off , though . We just want to drop our paper trash money on real things before it ’s worthless . THINK POSITIVELY !
We can blow it on real things , like making hive !
I like this Top Bar excogitation from Philip Chandler :
I was never peculiarly good at keeping bees when I work with Langstroth hive back in Tennessee , but even experienced beekeepers were losing their colony en masse shot there , so I was n’t alone . Colony Collapse Disorder was a freehanded job .
I call back keep open bees in a more natural way will help immensely . I also think our constituent gardens and immense amount of unsprayed swamp , meadows , clover , etc . , will be very dependable for these new colony .
The gardens and the plant breeding projects are all pass to appreciate the pollenation , even if we do n’t get much honey in our first class .
I ’ll keep you posted .
