Year 2

So this is my second year beekeeping and I decided to start a blog about it.

A little history: Last year I had one hive and it was in my backyard and the only help I had was to ask some questions at some beekeeper meeting and some books. It was fun, but my bees died. :(

So this year I received an email from someone that wanted to have some hives on their 25 acres, and best of all it was in my home town not to far from my house! I decided to have two hives this year and start from new packages.

Here are some pics of the first bee adventure this year. I hope that you will all follow how my bees are doing and cheer them on :)

I picked up the bees in this warehouse place. All the white specs you see are bees flying around.

This is a tall stack of packaged bees, each box contains about 3,000-5,000 bees

My dad came with me to see what all the buzz was about and took this video. See if you can notice the bees flying in front of the camera. We arrived later in the afternoon so many of the packages had already been picked up, but I assume this place was full of bees.

My brother and I taking my bees to the truck.

Don't they look so happy?

This is the field they are in.

I hope they do well in this area.


This is shortly after I placed the bees in the hive, right before I closed it up.


A bunch of bees are already hanging out on their new front porch


Here are my two hives with feeders on top and the cages in front (that is so if there are any stragglers out there then they can find there way home).

He is so happy to be outside.

My hives are next to someone else's. This could be good for me cause I may see them out there sometimes and they can mentor me in the ways of beekeeping.

This is what my bees see when they leave the hive. What a great view!