Comments on: Un Bee Lievable

By: Mary Wright

Mary Wright — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:53:39 +0000

can you send a copy of your chicken coop plans? i want to build a well-designed hen house/coop for my hens. I have about 30 hens.

By: Tressa

Tressa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:29:25 +0000

My hubby and I have had bees for just a few years. The first year you don’t get much of a harvest if any. The bees have to build up their wax cone before they can fill it with honey. Hubby said it takes something like 5 times the pollen to make wax as it does to make honey. So, once the hives are established and the bees don’t swarm or die, you should have a harvest. Best of luck with them! I try to tell hubby that the bees are his thing…. But I keep getting drug into it! The honey is soo yummy though!

By: Paul Nichols

Paul Nichols — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:53:58 +0000

Honey, the world’s only perfect food! I just had some on my oatmeal this morning.

My father was a beekeeper from before I was born. He sold the last of his bees/supplies just a week before he died. About 40 years later. There is no way to tell you how many quarts of honey we extracted and bottled. At one time, we had close to 300 hives out on a desert ranch. You can read much, much more about growing up with bees in my fancy new book, “Just Seven Blocks from the Mexican Border.” (Amazon.com) Once you extract your first crop, you can only look to the future.