Question About Bee Keeping

[Beekissed]

A solar fence charger is easy to come by, NY, and may just solve your issues. Cheaper than getting your own hive too....and could solve other issues in your orchard, like deer damage if you extend your fencing to include the whole orchard.

 

[Beekissed]

Roof Top! I have never seen a hive set up on a roof.

Those are quite common for hives kept in town...skirts the whole issue of bee lines crossing the paths of humans.

 

[Nyboy]

He wants roof top because of bears, they clime trees don't they?

 

[Beekissed]

They do. This guys is pretty paranoid. Has he had bear issues at his place or is he just trying to cover all the bases?

 

[Carol Dee]

Seems a hot wire might be the answer. I like the solar charger idea for the hot wire, too.

 

[ninnymary]

Roof Top! I have never seen a hive set up on a roof.

I've seen one locally when I was on a garden tour. I thought it was a neat idea. Too bad my house is too high with a pitch roof. If it didn't, I could have bees and kids!

Mary

 

[seedcorn]

Friend had 18 hives on his roof. Until roofer said, they go or get someone else to do work... Bees now on ground.

 

[majorcatfish]

the other day while getting fuel, saw an flyer from the ncbeekeepers.org they are having a introduction class for bee keeping, so signed the both of us for it. if anything it will be great information...

 

[Beekissed]

How neat!! I hope you get bees, Major...then you'd have fresh honey to drizzle on those carrots next winter.

They have a bee expo around here at the local university and I've been there but the last time I went was about 6 yrs ago and I was interested in natural beekeeping and top bar hives..not a person there would even discuss it, nor had any info or equipment on it. Maybe they do nowadays, but it's the only beekeeping in which I'm interested.

I'm thinking real hard about doing bees again...somewhere in the middle of all my spring projects.

 

[Smart Red]

This year our local farm supply store is selling bees as well as spring chicks for the first time. Not quite ready for that leap yet.