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Getting Started
How you can help
Getting Started
People always ask me "Chad, how did you get into beekeeping?"
I'm just as surprised as everyone else that I'm a beekeeper.
My brother in law and I were trying to figure out what to do with the half acre of grass in their front yard and I was scrolling through Instagram one day and saw a beekeeping video and was intrigued.
Brought it up to my
People always ask me "Chad, how did you get into beekeeping?"
I'm just as surprised as everyone else that I'm a beekeeper.
My brother in law and I were trying to figure out what to do with the half acre of grass in their front yard and I was scrolling through Instagram one day and saw a beekeeping video and was intrigued.
Brought it up to my brother in law and he was all for it. Did months and months of research before we got the bees and fast forward to today and now I have 5 hives.
Facts
How you can help
Getting Started
- Honey bees pollinate about 1/3 of what we eat
- A honey bee worker will make an average of 1/12 a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
- Honey bees beat their wings 11,400 times a minute
- 16 oz of honey requires 1,152 bees to travel 112,000 miles & visit 4.5 million flowers
How you can help
How you can help
How you can help
There are little things everyone can do to help the bees but the best one to do is plant food for bees. Planting flowers is the best way to help honey bees. Basically plant flowers that are native to your area and that will always help honey bees gather food. Bees will fly miles to forage.