I've talked with people about honey bees for a year or two, but haven't ever made it happen. My motivation for getting them is pretty simple, I'd like to have them onsite to pollinate what I hope will someday become a thriving orchard and secondly I'd like to help the bee population out. We don't use much honey over the course of the year, and for all the maintenance of a bee hive let alone the additional honey processing equipment I'd have to buy I'd really rather just let the bees keep their honey and have that much more of a stronger hive the following year. I understand that to many the extra time and effort to get a good honey producing hive is worth it and maybe someday it'll be that way for me, but for now I'd really rather not have any extra chores in my life. I'm already spread too thin.
I've talked with a buddy who's into bee keeping and he thinks where I'm talking is an ideal spot to have them. He's been doing it for years and was pretty excited when I mentioned it to him.
For anyone here who's a bee keeper, can you think of how to setup a hive to where all I do is the bare minimum. I get that I'll have to insulate the hives for winter etc, but otherwise I really don't want to do anything besides set boxes out back with bees in it and wish them the best of luck. Is that something that's even feasible?
I've talked with a buddy who's into bee keeping and he thinks where I'm talking is an ideal spot to have them. He's been doing it for years and was pretty excited when I mentioned it to him.
For anyone here who's a bee keeper, can you think of how to setup a hive to where all I do is the bare minimum. I get that I'll have to insulate the hives for winter etc, but otherwise I really don't want to do anything besides set boxes out back with bees in it and wish them the best of luck. Is that something that's even feasible?