I am a hoarder. I am a packrat. I am able to see a use for everything. Sigh. It's a curse. Well, anyway, I went to pick Matthew up at the Gilmanton Recyling Center where he works and discovered that someone had given up on their beekeeping. Two hive boxes and a cover and a queen-excluder and a base had been left at the free room. I was very excited. I loaded them all into my back seat and came home with them.
Felix, Matthew, and I all drove over to the local honey farm to talk to Ben Chadwick, who, as it turns out, is the local bee inspector. Now, mind you, twenty years ago I had taken a bee keeping course. I dropped out because it was too hard and too much of a commitment to try. Ben said we need to go again and that we had already missed the season to start a new colony. We should be thinking of next April. I have such mixed feelings about it all.
Felix, Matthew, and I all drove over to the local honey farm to talk to Ben Chadwick, who, as it turns out, is the local bee inspector. Now, mind you, twenty years ago I had taken a bee keeping course. I dropped out because it was too hard and too much of a commitment to try. Ben said we need to go again and that we had already missed the season to start a new colony. We should be thinking of next April. I have such mixed feelings about it all.
6 comments:
Oh well - give it a GO! Time may have given you a more positive attitude towards beekeeping.
However, I am NOT happy that you have given me an idea to look more carefully at the recycle containers carefully parked where traffic can see "what's there."! I even have avoided ADDING to the recyclable mix, because I don't want the temptation, but beekeeping stuff? now that's good stuff!! Wonder what else might be there?????
Why not, what have you got to lose. You might enjoy it now. A few years ago I had a lot of honey bees coming to my humming bird feeders so I fixed them a feeder of their own by using a cookie sheet and a piece of wire mesh. They came and drank sugar water all summer. "You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind."
Wow! What good support from two of my favorite people!!!! Thank you both so very much for the encouragement.
I give you lots of credit just for knowing there is a "bee inspector"!
I know about those dangers of free stuff. I have a little wooden bat house in my garage that I was going to put up someday. It is still in there and probably houses a family of mice. As for keeping bees, you can always give it a try.
Oh Vic, I love it!! I am always a "sucker" for anything free and always willing to give something a try. Glad someone else is in the same type of boat that I tend to row.
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