Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Not this year

Well, I can't say that our bee experience has been a good one.. in fact it seems to keep going downhill. Now, end of August and still no bees. And in fact the guy we ordered from has not gotten them in either and is not expecting them until April....

Also the Bee-club has decided that we killed our bees so they will not give us another swarm (not directly said, but this is the result) We are blacklisted at the bee club. The last meeting was so frustrating we have decided not to return. They were not supportive of Top-Bar hives anyway. In fact the whole of the club seems to be run by this one guy who is a commercial beekeeper and sells all equipment etc. Since we didn't buy equipment from him, we are obviously wrong, and killed our bees.

SO, our adventure continues. If we got bees this late we would be feeding them throughout the winter anyway.. and we don't want to do that. So we will order now, early, and get them in April. And not from the guy that we ordered from this year. He was ordering them elsewhere anyway, so why not cut out the middleman....

SO all you patient friends and wanna bee bee keepers... check back in the spring as I'm sure there will be no developments until then.