Hosting Honey bees on your Farm

Would you all consider Hosting a beefarme'rs bees on your farms to improve your crop yield and quality as diversification, I am told it ticks a green box as well. I am in SouthWitshire, Salisbury Area
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Must have getting on for 50 hives across the farm here and it's a pleasure to have the keeper here.

4-5 pots of honey a year is a perfectly acceptable "rent".

Same here, love having them and the guy that keeps them is a very nice chap that keeps us very well supplied
 

wilber

Member
Location
wales
Been tempted to get a hive and learn all about it for a couple of years now, it's a shame i cant find the time, think i would really enjoy it.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
I would love to have some hives here so if you know anyone near Exeter Devon then shout. Used to have a chap who ran a few hives on but he passed away some years back.
 

renewablejohn

Member
Location
lancs
I presume you are after a nucleus of bees with buckfast queen, what type hive is it? So we can get right frame size

I am on National hives but will be buying a new hive. I am unsure why we had a sudden collapse so wary of using the existing hive. Have sterilized the frame but will hopefully reuse on a captured swarm.
 

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