#backwards beekeeping

[inklingpost]

We are officially beekeepers. We've been talking about rescuing a hive for over a year now, and one showed up at the end of our driveway around Christmas of 2012, and we finally transferred it safely into a hive box and moved it to a safer location with less foot traffic. It was such a learning experience, and continues to be. 

I've posted more pictures and details of the experience over at my other blog if you want to read more about it: http://brieshoneybeesandflowers.blogspot.com/2013/05/our-first-bee-hive-transfer.html

Hopefully, in about a year we'll have our first batch of honey to share with people!

[sat--nam]

Bee club

Was awesome today! The most beautiful, happy souls attended. I made a new friend, Oooo, the love in that room~

& I loooveee going to LA. Such a beautiful day.❤

http://www.backwardsbeekeepers.com/

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Interested in beekeeping? Learn about the Backwards Beekeepers and urban beekeeping on today's BFD.

[gardendog]

The bees got their new hive boxes today. So far they seem to be happy, and didn't object at all to being moved from the swarm capture box into their new digs. I've got my fingers crossed that they'll stick around to keep Whiskey and I company in the garden. 

I set the hive boxes on top of a few cinder blocks inside a concrete mixing tub. The intention here is create a moat to keep the ants out while the hive gains enough strength to fight off any advances.

My co-worker had the Backwards Beekeepers out to her apartment last week to trap-out a swarm that was setting up shop in the wall. I hope to add these bees to the bees we collected from the water meter in Mar Vista.