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Keeping a hive or two in the backyard (Read 190 times)
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Keeping a hive or two in the backyard
Apr 10th, 2021 at 10:21pm
 
Never done this, but once settled in Tassie I will have close to 100 fruit trees plus decorative plants.

Should be enough to justify a hive or two.

I like making and drinking mead—honey drink flavored with fruit or malt+hops or spices or. . . .

Anybody do any beekeeping?
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Re: Keeping a hive or two in the backyard
Reply #1 - Apr 11th, 2021 at 6:01pm
 
No... but for a while we had a beekeeper guy that put his bees in our property and he always thanked us with a tub of honey!
Loved that.
I have always had respect for bees and love seeing them happily going about their business. I’ve never been stung or hurt by any bee ever! And yet our pathway from door to driveway has many bees happily among the rosemary bushes and other flowering plants.
Last year, there was a hive of them on one of our little shrubs, seemingly lost?
I called bee specialists to come get them and once they arrived, the bees were gone. I forgot what they said how the bees may have lost their way. They said most likely gone onto another tree.
Some days later, hubby found them all dead.
I was sad and horrified.
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Reply #2 - Apr 11th, 2021 at 6:10pm
 
As i said, that is likely what I would do.

Unless the trees that give Leatherwood honey are around, then I WOULD be tempted to keep bees. I have sent Leatherwood honey to (internet) friends in the US and they are blown away by its aroma and flavor. They also like quandong jam.

Leatherwood honey is worth keeping bees for!
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