My patient husband takes all my craziness is stride. In February I was perusing Craigslist (I think for a riding lawn mower) and I found an ad for a local company selling beehive set-ups. I told Clint I wanted one and he said yes. In May we picked up everything, including a bike of bees (that's really what they're called...also a cluster, an erst, and a rabble). We set it all up at the edge of the garden. I read a book about keeping bees and we've done a lot of google searches. We even dealt with some robbing (another drift of bees was stealing honey from our hive).
We had a little help from our sister-in-law (thanks, Michelle) and harvested the hive in September. We got a full gallon which was thrilling for us. We took several more frames in October, so in all we collected 2 gallons. It's beautiful and delicious. It smells wonderful.
We're hopeful that the bees will winter well and we can get even more honey next year.
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