>>2073975You should learn how to properly care for bees and manage them effectively before sacrificing money, time, and land space to a bee house. It’s a costly effort to keep bees if you’re doing it as a hobby, let alone building an entire building for it and deciding to fuck off in 2 years because you don’t wanna deal with it anymore.
Checking out the thread on /diy/ that
>>2073797 mentioned, (
>>2062750 ), A couple of choice quotes from that thread:
>>2063204> I inherited a few hives and have been doing it for the last 10 years or so. I honestly don't like it very much, and have been hoping all my fucking bees just die, so I don't have to mess around with it anymore. For one, it's a real pain in the ass. I don't know if you've ever tried muscling around a full deep box of honey in 95 degree weather with really pissed bees buzzing around you, but it's not pleasant. And the more hives you get, it tends to get exponentially harder.>>2063573>I want to keep like two hives and make some luxury whole comb product but my dad forces me to keep like ten hives (he's old and retired and I think selling honey to local stores is one of his joys in life so I do all the work.) Fucking hell, raising nucs would be easy. Two half filled mediums EASY. I could do DOZENS. But when you're running a record spring flow and have 10x2 deeps (100+lbs each) full of honey and you are harvesting early July...? Suicide would be less painful. I am converting to 100% medium supers and hive bodies away from ALL deeps. Will sell them on the cheap.Luckily winter killed all but one of my hives but he bought two packages (delayed because winter killed all of their packaged bee hives) even though I can catch DOZENS of swarms around here.
I am in an abusive relationship with my bees.
I’ll say this anon. I personally find the work rewarding in a mental sense. All my worries go away when I’m working with my bees.
