Beekeeping – Getting Started

The dead of winter proves time and again to be hard for me as I like to spend time outdoors, but don’t like to be too cold. I roam back and forth in the house (like a lion Melissa says) awaiting the arrival of spring. This last winter, I decided to research beekeeping a little more in depth as I kind of liked the idea and needed something to do over winter. As it turns out, bees are pretty fascinating.

 

When I decided to start keeping bees for myself (cautiously), the first step was to get hives but to be honest, I really couldn’t see paying those retail prices (the shipping alone was absurd) so I decided to crack the code and build my own. After a great deal of searching and deciphering, I finally came up with the plans to build what I thought would be some nice hives.

 

When I finished building mine, I listed them on CL just as an experiment to see if anyone else thought they were as nice as what I thought they were… they did. Here are some pics of the first set.

 

 

First Set

First Set
First Set
Bottom Board
Bottom Board
Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management
Deep Box
Deep Box
Honey Super (Medium)
Honey Super (Medium)
Rabbit Joints
Rabbit Joints
Inner Cover
Inner Cover
Outer Cover
Outer Cover

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