Hello,
I am a Semi-newbee beekeep in a sense that I have assisted my grandfather, farmer who
kept about 100 hives and later my father who kept 2-4 hives as a hobby in my
country of origin, Serbia. After immigrating to US and some pause from any beekeeping
earlier this year I started my first two hives, as a hobby, for which I am now
fully responsible for the first time (in the past decisions were not mine).
Hence I both have some experience with somewhat different practices and as a
hobbyist I have latitude to try some "odd" things. Mainly I am into as low treatment
as possible, aim is to treat every two years if things go normal. To facilitate
that I chose Russian breed from B.Bachmann in nearby NY and started with
two complete hives from him. Using my old experience I decided on not using
foundation. Bees did excellently, built excellent free comb, stored about 80lbs
of honey in each hive and are surprisingly well dealing with the pests, now comes
test of overwintering.
By profession I am scientist, Physicist and other hobbies are visual arts,
dogs, bicycling ... see more at my site maletic.org.
Topic: Semi-newbee, New Jersey (Read 2336 times)