How did it all start?
The beginning of my love for #bees was the day when a friend called me and said in my yard there was a swarm of bees on one of the trees!
Come and if you can take them off the tree ...
That's how I got my first bee #family!
I applied a technique described to me by another fellow beekeeper. Which definitely worked. The #bees entered their new home in about 15-20 minutes.
The next challenge was to put them in a comfortable home.
The next challenge was to put them in a comfortable home.
On the ceiling in my house I had a lot of old wood for which I was looking for an application, because I needed the space it occupied.
I decided to borrow it and use it to make #beehives ... I didn't know that there would be 40 of them.
I turned to the information on the web and came across this ..
I started making the buildings in a local workshop. Owned by an acquaintance of mine. Whoever told me use the workshop and do what you need.
Things were going well and I made a lot of blanks for assembling the hives.
Unfortunately during the process the knife of one of the machines decided to touch my finger ... which turned out to be a little worse than it looked ..!
After that moment I was a little disappointed and I thought why something like this would happen to me, after I did everything with such great desire ..?!
However, I wanted to finish what I started!
Not long after, my finger got better and I resumed my activity by making my so valuable beehives ...!
After some time, the first ready-made #beehives started coming out of the workshop ...
It made me feel amazing!
Little by little, #mylove @lifetravelling and I made this dream come true. To create homes for them and live with these amazing creatures. #Bees
We bought an amazing property near a small lake. We were lucky to get it at a low price and we already had our #ranch.
So I started raising about 20 bee families. Working and caring for them made me look at things differently. The direct connection to these amazing insects and the opportunity to be so close to what they do was unique.
The first harvests of nice real pure honey have come!
It was very tasty and interesting ... definitely different from the one in the shops we were used to eating.
My observations definitely proved to me how bees work together. I studied their way of life and realized how much they do for us in their quest to survive.
They deserve the support and special treatment of us humans.
nice to see other beekeepers here!
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Excellent post! I have always wondered what its like to have wild caught bees. Amazing story from capture, to building their home, to mistakes made (your finger) and finally to having them build and getting honey!
I am quite impressed you built these homes from scratch. I used a kit to build mine but yours look completely custom and they turned out great.
thanks alot for posting in The Pollen Flow community! And hope your hand healed up okay!
Thanks.
The story was really amazing, I could hardly describe it completely .. the finger healed well except for the feeling it had ... it is no longer the same. But I do not regret anything!
I love bees!
And for the rest of my life I will probably watch them!
Its alright, your pictures say a thousand words each. And glad your finger mostly healed, hopefully the nerve damage will heal after a few years... the human body is pretty amazing like that.
Looking forward to your future posts, I saw your bee wax tray bases.. great job! I bought some plastic foundation trays and starter strips then rolled melted bees wax on mine.
Thanks. I'm a little worried about #bees in general this year!
The climate is abnormal and this confuses them.
I hope they start well in the spring.
What a great story (except for the part about cutting your finger). How did you acquire all the other bee families? Did you purchase some or were they all rescues like the first swarm?
Hello!
each of the families was taken down from a tree just like the first one. In the first year I caught 33 pieces.
But not everyone overwintered successfully.
So there were about 20 left that I started to deal with ..
Now in the spring I plan to fill all the empty hives. And to look good.
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