First Hiving!

I hived up my first package of honey bees today and I’m pretty darn excited. I purchased this package from Beeline of Colorado. I posted a short video about it over on my Youtube channel.  This is a hyper look at the approximately 5 minute process of the hiving. I expected to be a little …

Hives Painted! and now we wait

I picked up my hive boxes yesterday and gave them a couple of coats of primer and paint.  Now we wait for 6 weeks or so until we have bees.  They will live outside now. This is not their final resting place.  I've got to clear out an area in the yard for them and …