Old Boar's Apiary
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2014
- Messages
- 13
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Dorking
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Hi,
Just joined the forum, brand new to beekeeping. My partner and I have wanted to keep bees for a while, but we didn't have anywhere we could keep them. Then we got an allotment and looked at keeping them there, which you are allowed to do, but there's a lot of hoops to jump through, so we put it on the back burner.
Then, a few weeks later, my other half spots a post from a local business on Twitter, saying that they want someone to come and keep bees there again. OH jumped at the chance, set up a meeting, and that was that.
We had our very first chance to handle bees about a month ago on a one-day course, and we've been doing plenty of reading. We'd sort of given up on getting actual bees this year, as we'd been told it was too late to start with a nuc, but by chance we looked on Gumtree last week, and there was someone selling some full colonies, brilliant!
We've met up with the person selling them, looked at the hives and now everything is suddenly a-go, we're due to move the hives to their new site this weekend!
Expect lots of questions from us over the next few months!
Just joined the forum, brand new to beekeeping. My partner and I have wanted to keep bees for a while, but we didn't have anywhere we could keep them. Then we got an allotment and looked at keeping them there, which you are allowed to do, but there's a lot of hoops to jump through, so we put it on the back burner.
Then, a few weeks later, my other half spots a post from a local business on Twitter, saying that they want someone to come and keep bees there again. OH jumped at the chance, set up a meeting, and that was that.
We had our very first chance to handle bees about a month ago on a one-day course, and we've been doing plenty of reading. We'd sort of given up on getting actual bees this year, as we'd been told it was too late to start with a nuc, but by chance we looked on Gumtree last week, and there was someone selling some full colonies, brilliant!
We've met up with the person selling them, looked at the hives and now everything is suddenly a-go, we're due to move the hives to their new site this weekend!
Expect lots of questions from us over the next few months!