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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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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!)