Bees
We started bee school this past Tuesday and ordered 2 colonies on Wednesday. We have decided to go with Warré hives. We're taking a "natural beekeeping" workshop on Jan 28. We intend to do as little actual Keeping as possible. We just want to provide a good place for them to do their own thing, making sure that they are healthy, have water and enough food to get through the winter so that they are ready to be pollinating fools come Spring.
I've been wanting to keep bees for ages. It's an idea whose time has come :-) In my life, anyway.
I learned a thing at the beekeepers meeting on Thursday. Lavender is a deer deterrent. The speaker, the owner/operator of Sunshine Lavender Farm, put lavender around an orchard that had been decimated by deer the year before and they haven't been in it since.
She said that they don't like the strong taste and they don't like to get the smell on themselves because it gives them away to predators. 2 ways to discourage them. Yay!!
Lavender can get really large. They staggered them about 8 feet apart.
I've been wanting to keep bees for ages. It's an idea whose time has come :-) In my life, anyway.
I learned a thing at the beekeepers meeting on Thursday. Lavender is a deer deterrent. The speaker, the owner/operator of Sunshine Lavender Farm, put lavender around an orchard that had been decimated by deer the year before and they haven't been in it since.
She said that they don't like the strong taste and they don't like to get the smell on themselves because it gives them away to predators. 2 ways to discourage them. Yay!!
Lavender can get really large. They staggered them about 8 feet apart.