We've begun our journey of raising bees! It actually officially began on Christmas morning when I opened my huge wrapped present from Craig and found a bee hive. I had been reading about raising bees for over a year and he found my Brushy Mountain Bee Keeper's catalog and decided it was time. Surprise, ready or not, here they come.
Yesterday, we finished our last class in the series, "Getting Started with Beekeeping" and will participate in the hands on lab next week with live bees and real hives. We have to be ready because our order for two nucs of bees should arrive around the middle of April. I know I only received one hive for Christmas but we quickly learned that if you are starting out, you must get two hives. Craig won a bee hive in the Wake County Beekeeper's raffle yesterday. Congratulations Craig but now we have three hives to deal with. We'll figure it out. Our friends Jim and Linda took the classes with us and they are also getting two hives of bees. It will be good to have a team to work with for weekends when we need to travel and the bees need feeding or something else.
Craig and I have been working out in the garden all afternoon preparing the area for the hives. We do know that we have to add a water source near the hives because we don't want them to fly down to the house to get water. We're thinking of a small pond which will need a pump to recirculate the water. Watch out Penny and Ben. You're getting ready to have company out back.
Well back to work, getting the bee balm transplanted. We're excited. I created this blog to document the steps along the way.
Yesterday, we finished our last class in the series, "Getting Started with Beekeeping" and will participate in the hands on lab next week with live bees and real hives. We have to be ready because our order for two nucs of bees should arrive around the middle of April. I know I only received one hive for Christmas but we quickly learned that if you are starting out, you must get two hives. Craig won a bee hive in the Wake County Beekeeper's raffle yesterday. Congratulations Craig but now we have three hives to deal with. We'll figure it out. Our friends Jim and Linda took the classes with us and they are also getting two hives of bees. It will be good to have a team to work with for weekends when we need to travel and the bees need feeding or something else.
Craig and I have been working out in the garden all afternoon preparing the area for the hives. We do know that we have to add a water source near the hives because we don't want them to fly down to the house to get water. We're thinking of a small pond which will need a pump to recirculate the water. Watch out Penny and Ben. You're getting ready to have company out back.
Well back to work, getting the bee balm transplanted. We're excited. I created this blog to document the steps along the way.
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