[17376]

You all probably wonder what takes me so long to build boats. Well my other obsession that takes up a lot of my time is our apiary. My fiancé and I raise honey bees!! We have 14 hives total! Next year we hope to be up around 40. Our plan, now that I don’t a work full time job, is to go full time with bees in the next couple of years.

 

[Guest]

Very nice! Good honey too!

 

[17376]

Thanks brother!! We do ship honey! Quarts $20, Pints 12$

 

[Goatlips]

I have some too.

 

[17376]

Oh yea more bee keepers!!!

We need as many as we can get!!

 

[Guest]

Hell yeah! That ain’t bad at all for good honey!

 

[crboggs]

I have always wanted to do this...

 

[17376]

I encourage everyone to do it! The world needs it.

 

[Guest]

I encourage everyone to do it! The world needs it.

Yes, more bees & less A$$ holes!

 

[17376]

Definitely BB!!

 

[Smackdaddy53]

I grew up raising bees with my father, it’s a lot of work but very satisfying. I recently had an old hippie professor that has an apiary and he came to the house and I helped him vacuum up a huge swarm that was in my trash can. We did it at night no suits. Dude made a modified shop vac that has 5 gallon bucket inserts to catch the swarm without harming many, if any.

 

[Capnredfish]

No bees, little to no veggies/fruit. Bees don’t bother people. Wasp on the other hand suck.

 

[17376]

I need to make a vacuum!! That’s really cool though!

That’s right no bees no fruit!

 

[jtf]

A couple of my neighbors ran the Brushy Mtn Bee Farm (supplies) till last year when Steve and Sandy sold to a "northern" outfit who promptly ran it in the ground and closed a couple month ago, laying-off about 100 folks.

Used to keep several + stands but got allergic to stings. Now I plant lots of bee friendly cover crops on the farm. They need all the help we can give.

One of my droll neighbor's bee jokes was: Where's a bee put it's stinger? In it's honey, silly.

 

[Fishtex]

Can you train them to sting wakeboarders and jet skis?

 

[devrep]

that's awesome Travis. from what I've read there is something going on from pesticides or something that has been killing bees, which could be a disaster if it escalates.

 

[Guest]

Damn you Travis!

 

[17376]

To fill you all in, I sent James a video of me making creamed honey with biscuits.

 

[Guest]

And since it is pouring here with lightning from hell... I had to make some up!

 

[Smackdaddy53]

And since it is pouring here with lightning from hell... I had to make some up!

Eating all those carbs, sugar and real butter might keep you from needing ballasts in future wet tests...I’m making some when I get home...thanks!