~by Texas Homesteader ~
Inspecting Beehives. We have the hives, we have the bees – what’s next? Come with us as we inspect the inside of the new bee hives!
Beginning Beekeeping: How To Inspect Bee Hives
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Beginning Beekeeping: Obtaining Your Bees
~by Texas Homesteader ~
Last week we talked about the beekeeping preparation steps that were necessary before we ever obtained our first bees. There was lots to do: Educate ourselves on best beekeeping practices, join a local beekeeper’s association, decide where our hives will be located, prepare the location for the hives, obtain the beekeeping protective clothing and the bee hive expansion boxes and frames. RancherMan even built an elevated stand for the hives.
Then we used heavy-duty cattle panels to section off the hive pen from the cattle pen. All of these details are listed on last week’s Preparation Post, so if you haven’t read it be sure to check it out. But now that we’re all ready, let’s get those bees!
Beginning Beekeeping: Becoming A NewBee
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RancherMan & I love raising cattle, and we added chickens to the mix because they’re so much fun and, you know, EGGS!
But we were wondering what (if anything) we’d like to add to our current barnyard fun. We’d tried raising goats but that just wasn’t for us. But then RancherMan hit on an idea: How about BEES?
His thought is that bees will help keep the garden pollinated, and I’ll hopefully finally be able to obtain local honey that includes ragweed pollen to try to treat my allergies naturally.
Sounds like fun – let’s jump in! We’ve never kept bees before so we’re NewBees! (groaaaann, bad pun…) There’s a lot to do before we actually receive any bees, come see how we prepared.
