I am so happy to finally get into this forum! My registration email kept going to spam folder and just now realized it. I was so frustrated that I wasn't hearing back to get access. This is my first forum, hopefully I can make my way around it.
Anyway, TOTALLY excited to be here, thank you for letting me in. I have been reading and watching videos for the past 5 months and right before Christmas I ordered my first 2 hives, one a Langstroth and one a Layens. I plan to compare the two and see what works best here where I live, up in Mermaid country! I have great expectations that I will be successful, I guess time will tell. I pick up my nucs the first weekend in March, and my biggest challenge starting out will be temporarily converting the Layens hive to accept the nucs' Langstroth frames until I can transition them out.
My husband and I are vegans for 4+ years, we love every aspect of nature (except hurricanes) and since bees are so vital to mankind's wellbeing, I decided I wanted to become a part of the fascinating work that they do.
That's a lot of information on my first post, and I apologize, but wanted to say HI, and I hope to find answers to the multitude of a questions I have moving forward along this this journey I have started for myself.