TerapinChef

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damn you people and getting me wanting to start yet another hobby....

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MeadWitch

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I:d

rowingbrewer

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I to would like to get into bee keeping. I don't have the space but a friend of mine has 10acres with lots of flowering fruit vines trees bushes etc. Now to convince him of the benefits of bee keeping

RegionalChaos

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If your friend harvests his fruit of food from the garden then you can use the pollination angle. Having bees around to pollinate will increase yields. Last year our cherry tree was worked hard by the bees and we had a bumper crop of cherries. This year it was rainy while the tree was blooming, and it wasn't worked by bees. Our yield was very small compared to last year. Also, my neighbors are all happy that there is a hive close by. I give them honey and they are happy to get it!

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How I brew: Stir plate starters, Extract, Full boil in a Keggle, 10 gallon batches.
Brewing upgrades in progress: temp controlled ferment, stir plate re-work, building mash tun, milling station

Planned House Ales: an Amber, an IPA, a dark IPA, a Mango Ale, a blueberry oatmeal stout, a dry Irish stout, a honey wheat, Apfelwien

What kind of R-Value does your ferm chamber need? - http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/what-kind-r-value-ferm-chamber-190459/

rowingbrewer

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Well its not so much convincing my friend, he is just about ready to start brewing beer and making mead. it's his parents house and I don't know how they will react to us wanting to put a few bee hives in the back yard. He mostly has blueberry bushes, which there are like 60 plus of. there is like 50-75 yards of of concord grape vines, and several apple trees. all his neighbors have blueberries too. as well as small vegetable gardens. I actually picked 12lbs of blueberries with plans to pick 12 more for 2 batches of blueberry mead, one sparkling one still. The bee keeping would be a way of saving some money on the honey bill ( long term investment, im sure it would take a few years to make up the difference between what i would pay for honey and what i put into the bees and hives and all the other equipment. there is an apiary near me where i get 60lbs of honey for $102

KingBrianI

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I was under the impression a hive had to be registered and get regular inspections by a USDA guy or something. And that you had to dust them for mites or something. Sounded like a lot of hassle when I heard about it but I don't remember all the details now.

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I would like to get started in this too but SWMBO will not allow it. She thinks we don't have space, or I have time. We and I do but then we don't know if the grandkids are allergic to bee stings yet too. Maybe I could keep them at someone else's house? Hmm... My local honey supplier is an apiarist and he fabricates hives too. It's pretty cool to go to his place to get honey and get to see working hives as well as hives being fabricated as well as all the extraction equipment.

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