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I'm gonna be right up-front about this and tell you all I know is they put bees in my fields and they used to charge me for this. I changed to a local guy and he actually gives me delicious honey for the right to put all the damned boxes of bees in my fields that he wants to. Hell, I might ask 'em if he's interested in a further partnership and putting some bees in near the farm. There's tons of fields and lots and lots of clover-covered acreage.
It's delicious honey. I haven't paid for honey in years. I have gallons of the stuff. Probably not as much as you, however. If I have more honey than you, you're either doing it very right or you're doing it very wrong.
They don't sting me, or nuffin. That's pretty awesome - 'cause I'm actually allergic to bees. However, their venom isn't very powerful and they'd have to sting me a lot to make me do more than say fuck and maybe wheeze in 15 minutes. Meh... I ain't scared. I don't even usually carry my shot kit!
They're pretty tame so long as you don't breath on 'em. They seem to hate that. Otherwise, I've sat right on the hives and eaten my lunch - which was also, I assure you, delicious.
Very few things in life are more important that delicious.
Honey bees tend to be very docile unless you directly threaten the hive. Thats awesome you're giving space to a local bee keeper. Hopefully in the next few years I'll expand and drop a few hives at my friends apple orchard.
I probably have ~1 gallon or so left in frames from my bees who died the other year but some of that is mixed with sugar water feed so I never extracted it. I'll feed it back to my new bees this fall/winter so they have plenty of food.
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Ah... I probably actually have more honey than you. I give it away - with great frequency. I'm pretty sure all my friends are stocked in honey, blueberries, and possibly game and soon to be beef.
I wasn't kidding about sitting on the hive for lunch. Just don't block the opening or shake it around - or blow on 'em. They don't like CO2, or so I'm told. Something about it makes 'em mad. That may be legend, but I don't know. He has more bees than I do - and he doesn't wear a bee suit. I don't wear one 'cause I'm not a bee keeper. If I wore one, it'd just be for sexy time with the missus.
(We're kinky like that!)
If you were local, I'd tell you come on in and put up some bee boxes. I don't mind. I've got TONS of field acreage. I even have an orchard and berries that aren't blueberries. (Raspberries and blackberries.) You can stuff 'em right outside the horse fields, on the non-horse-containing side of the fence. I don't care.
I won't charge a damned thing - except it'd be nice if you'd give me some honey that we can put at our farm stand. I've already got more honey than I use.
(You should see my maple syrup stash! It's also delicious!)
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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'm gonna be right up-front about this and tell you all I know is they put bees in my fields and they used to charge me for this. I changed to a local guy and he actually gives me delicious honey for the right to put all the damned boxes of bees in my fields that he wants to. Hell, I might ask 'em if he's interested in a further partnership and putting some bees in near the farm. There's tons of fields and lots and lots of clover-covered acreage.
It's delicious honey. I haven't paid for honey in years. I have gallons of the stuff. Probably not as much as you, however. If I have more honey than you, you're either doing it very right or you're doing it very wrong.
They don't sting me, or nuffin. That's pretty awesome - 'cause I'm actually allergic to bees. However, their venom isn't very powerful and they'd have to sting me a lot to make me do more than say fuck and maybe wheeze in 15 minutes. Meh... I ain't scared. I don't even usually carry my shot kit!
They're pretty tame so long as you don't breath on 'em. They seem to hate that. Otherwise, I've sat right on the hives and eaten my lunch - which was also, I assure you, delicious.
Very few things in life are more important that delicious.
[–] Sigurdtheold [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Honey bees tend to be very docile unless you directly threaten the hive. Thats awesome you're giving space to a local bee keeper. Hopefully in the next few years I'll expand and drop a few hives at my friends apple orchard.
I probably have ~1 gallon or so left in frames from my bees who died the other year but some of that is mixed with sugar water feed so I never extracted it. I'll feed it back to my new bees this fall/winter so they have plenty of food.
[–] TheBuddha ago
Ah... I probably actually have more honey than you. I give it away - with great frequency. I'm pretty sure all my friends are stocked in honey, blueberries, and possibly game and soon to be beef.
I wasn't kidding about sitting on the hive for lunch. Just don't block the opening or shake it around - or blow on 'em. They don't like CO2, or so I'm told. Something about it makes 'em mad. That may be legend, but I don't know. He has more bees than I do - and he doesn't wear a bee suit. I don't wear one 'cause I'm not a bee keeper. If I wore one, it'd just be for sexy time with the missus.
(We're kinky like that!)
If you were local, I'd tell you come on in and put up some bee boxes. I don't mind. I've got TONS of field acreage. I even have an orchard and berries that aren't blueberries. (Raspberries and blackberries.) You can stuff 'em right outside the horse fields, on the non-horse-containing side of the fence. I don't care.
I won't charge a damned thing - except it'd be nice if you'd give me some honey that we can put at our farm stand. I've already got more honey than I use.
(You should see my maple syrup stash! It's also delicious!)