Getting Ready for Spring

Just got done making my second Bee Hive for this spring.If there any beekeepers on here chime in and share your expercie and advice for a new bee keeper.Thanks
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not a bee keeper but interested. where did you get plans and how much equippment is needed. possibly 1 or 2 hives.
 
Looks like your on your way. I use to keep bees but got out of it years ago.
Gonna get back into it this year. I have 11 months to go till retirement and i need something working for me, and bees never quit or ask for a raise.
My plan is for a couple of hives this year and then maybe three or four more next year. I wouldn't mind having 15 or 20 hives.
Enough to keep me busy and make a few $ but not run me to death.
 
First and foremost find a beekeepers course and take it. With all the diseases out there now its a must, if your gonna survive. Usually your state extension office will offer one, check with your county agent he should know.
If they don't offer a course find a beekeeper and attach your self to his right hip and learn.
 
pete black I got my plans from www.utextension.utk.edu/ This a 10 frame hive.Been thinking about building some of these to sale for $85 with deep super and all frames and foundation do you thing that is resonable for this?Randy I have joined a bee keeping club in the next county and theres a guy willing to help me.
 
We use to get up to the smokies once a year and there was a winery right on the interstate 81 north of Knoxville I think it was Tenn valley winery, in Loudon county.

They made some of the best muscadine wine i ever drank. At that time they got their grapes and juice from about 30 miles from me here in MS.
 
1977 I tried one hive. Was a weak hive, and did not survive the winter! NEVER start with one, I have heard said that 3 is best, as one will almost always be weak! If you are wintering them, put plenty of weight on the roof. I had not, it blew off, killed the bees, mice moved in! Could not even get any honey-never did get more than a baby jars worth! I moved right after, brought the empty equipment, but never found another place to set up. I found it fascinating to study the honey bee!
 

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