2013 beekeeping resolutions

[TheBuzz]

Expand to 7+ hive this summer !!!

[giant pumpkin peep]

to make more nucs. Get my folks involved before I have to leave for college. And try to make some sort of plan to stick too.

[rniles]

to buy two packages or nucs and keep them alive for the whole year.

[Adam Foster Collins]

Expand.
Search for ways to be more efficient along the way.
Don't make the same mistake twice.

[humbee]

Is To not go to the almonds, to use less gasoline, to stay as far away from GMO neonic corn as possible and build better Bear protection . Keep em buzzin

[jpelley]

to start a top bar, and to get some honey out of the rest of em.

[Grant]

This year one of my resolutions is to take on as many swarm calls and bee cut outs as I possibly can.

Good for you! My resolution is to NOT take on any more cut-outs and removals from bee trees. I just don't have time like I used to, and the last dozen or so cut outs resulted in zero bees/hives. I resolve to retire from cut-outs and gladly refer them on to newer/younger beekeepers. It's far better for me to focus on caring for the hives I got (bird in the hand) than trying to help someone and pick up those two in the bush.

Grant
Jackson, MO

[Grant]

to start a top bar, and to get some honey out of the rest of em.

I have had a top bar for 4 years and managed to kill 4 colonies of bees and lost a perfectly good swarm I tried to put in there to replace one of the winter dead outs. My resolve is to figure this monkey out before I chop the thing up for firewood.

Grant
Jackson, MO

[Acebird]

To see if I can understand better what is going on inside the hive instead of outside the hive. Hopefully I will have the time.