A little honey

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2busy

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Been thinking of doing something like that.

Also.......
I planted some buckwheat (kinda late) this year to use as a cover crop and to help the soil.

I hope to harvest (without a combine) as much as I can.

Want to try and use some for chicken feed and to replant some next year.

It is too late for this year, (the buckwheat is seeding out), but I was thinking of setting up a hive body next to the blooming buckwheat and see what happened.

Buckwheat is amazing with bee life when it is in full bloom! The field just hums with a bzzzzz!
Buckwheat honey is dark like molasses and tastes a lot like it.
 

Timmy59

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Learn all you can before getting bees. Especially if you want to get honey from them. It takes weekly inspections to stay on top of them. Especially swarm prevention and what to do if they swarm.
Naturally bee's crossed our mind as well but there's only so much 2 can do without things seeing neglect. Maybe if I ever get to retire from the slave trade.
 

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