First-time Beekeeping, Through the Seasons
You will be busy in the spring getting your colony off to a good start for the season ... feeding if needed, adding room, re-queening perhaps, starting new colonies from "splits," packages or nucs, taking care of any health issues, and generally getting your colony up to speed and ready for the summer ahead.
During the summer the work slows down as the colony grows in size by itself (one hopes), collects its crop of honey and pretty much takes care of itself, with only a little help from you by adding room as needed, preventing little problems from becoming bigger problems, making timely harvests, and checking up to ensure all is as it should be. Just like the garden.
Come late summer or autumn, you gather the rest of the bounty of your bees, again check for health issues and prepare the colony for winter. Your garden, too, offers much of it’s bounty in the fall, (but like bees, provides all summer long if you take the time to harvest). Like hives, gardens need attention after frost, to weed and remove residue removal, prepare soil, and put bedding down for the winter. http://www.beeculture.com/
FREE: Backyard Beekeeping Course
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(they do accept donations)
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Book: Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
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