Beekeeping: Sweet Pollination

We were able to quickly connect with a local beekeepers' organization. To our delight we have discovered that beekeepers are as social as the bees they keep! We were warmly welcomed and encouraged to pursue our interest. Offers of help and offers to visit local apiaries were immediately extended to us by the members of the local organization. Their enthusiasm for their hobby is contagious. They have recommended that we plan on starting with two or three hives this spring, which means next month. Certainly, based upon our discussions with local beekeepers, we will be starting with at least two hives.

We do not expect to get rich off of our beekeeping endeavors. Rather, we expect to have all the honey we want to eat, have some honey to sell, and most importantly, have plenty of pollinators for our fruit, nut, herb, and vegetable crops. Given the reduced numbers of bees in the wild, it seems to be an environmentally sound activity to keep bees, particularly if you are able to do so without the use of toxic chemicals. From our warm welcome into the beekeeping community, I expect that we may also have stumbled into a new group of friends as well! You can expect future reports on the successes and failures of our new and interesting endeavor.

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