Chad has talked in the past about getting a beehive in the back yard but I haven't been too keen on the idea. Then I saw an ad in Criagslist for a beekeeper looking for a place to keep a few hives. We contacted him thinking we have the perfect place and could benefit from his experience and bees without the commitment of having our own. He came to visit and told us he wanted to have 5 or 6 hives in our yard and it would require driving into our yard weekly. It was decided that it wouldn't work. But in the meantime he gave us a lot of information and told Chad how to make an affordable hive. Flash forward a month and now we have bees and a hive that Chad built.
Chad moving them from their old home to our hive. Because the old hive was in a square and the honeycomb formed in a square he had to cut the comb into triangles to fit in our hive. Therefore we got to enjoy some honey right away!
Yes, Chad did get stung. Three time to be precise. Nathaniel has also been stung on the cheek. All of that was in the process of moving them from their old home to the new one. They are much calmer now and we hardly know they are there.
I don't know if we will get honey this summer or not, it will depend on how much they bring in but we are looking forward to it!
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