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Hi friends,
I've been using the site for research for some time, figured it was time to join. I've been keeping bees for 3.5 years now. I started with a top bar hive and a captured swarm, spent a couple years playing with those, now switching to 10-frame equipment and building colonies as fast as I can.
I am trying to build a beekeeping business over the next few years and will no doubt have a million more questions along the way. Right now I have about 12 colonies, have never bought packages of bees, been working with captured swarms and a local queen supplier. Building boxes all the time, all mediums, a choice I made from the start so that all frames will be interchangeable and perhaps I can avoid a strained back in the years ahead. I recently started 6 nucs into 4-frame equipment, after a lot of reading of Michael Palmer's threads on over-wintering nucs. My hope is to hit the spring strong and increase, increase, increase.
I want to say "thanks", you all have been a resource whether you knew it or not, and I have benefited from your discussions here. And I look forward to meeting you all more formally now that I am in the system.
Kind Regards,
Duncan MacLeod
Northwest Bees, LLC
I've been using the site for research for some time, figured it was time to join. I've been keeping bees for 3.5 years now. I started with a top bar hive and a captured swarm, spent a couple years playing with those, now switching to 10-frame equipment and building colonies as fast as I can.
I am trying to build a beekeeping business over the next few years and will no doubt have a million more questions along the way. Right now I have about 12 colonies, have never bought packages of bees, been working with captured swarms and a local queen supplier. Building boxes all the time, all mediums, a choice I made from the start so that all frames will be interchangeable and perhaps I can avoid a strained back in the years ahead. I recently started 6 nucs into 4-frame equipment, after a lot of reading of Michael Palmer's threads on over-wintering nucs. My hope is to hit the spring strong and increase, increase, increase.
I want to say "thanks", you all have been a resource whether you knew it or not, and I have benefited from your discussions here. And I look forward to meeting you all more formally now that I am in the system.
Kind Regards,
Duncan MacLeod
Northwest Bees, LLC