Honey bees

   / Honey bees #21  
Awesome!

I'm going to try to build a horizontal langstroth this winter, if I end up with the time to do it. I've found a couple different sets of plans. I want to expand out to 6-8 hives by fall next year. I hope to harvest between 100 and 200 lbs of honey next summer. That should be enough for us to get our feet wet in the honey harvesting and marketing game, but not be overwhelming. My brother-in-law wants to be up to 20-25 hives by the end of next year and his goal is to harvest 1,000 lbs of honey. That's a lot more work than I want to put into it right now.
 
   / Honey bees #26  
My uncle built a bee house for his 8 hives at my place...

He has good production years and not so good but at age 85 called it quits and I did not know until the bee house was no more... I guess that is the end of my free honey...

As a kid we would have swarms come through and often take up in the neighborhood but have not seen in decades...
 
   / Honey bees #27  
The honey is coming in a little wet, so we are drying it down in the frames prior to extraction. Oddly, even the capped honey was a little wet.
 
   / Honey bees #29  
wmfamily said:
Those seem to be the strongest. If you can find a swarm that is mite resistant that is a super bonus.
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I don’t treat for mites… so they are either resistant, or they die and I stop the weak genetics from propogating
 
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