Beeees!!!!

Idk, I'm cheap so i always used pine needles i picked up off the ground.

 

My current load

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What winter home are they going too

 

On the east coast a lot get shipped down here and put out in the citrus groves.

Side note, a little over 10 years ago i trucked a lot for a bee farmer in myakka florida. Took them up to jersey to the wine producers and brought them back to florida for citrus. At the time honey was selling so cheap that he didn't even collect it. Would toss out all the comb boxes to save on trucking. Kinda funny that honey was thought of as a waste byproduct of bees. The money was in pollination.

Have no idea if this is still true, we had a falling out over trucking rates and haven't talked since i wouldn't match the dirt cheap rate others offered to haul them for.

 

Interesting!

To think what kinda $ honey goes for =0

 

I think it had to do with what grade it is. The flavor is different depending on what plant the pollen is gotten from. Most of it gets sold as bulk bakery grade, and of course that would be the cheap honey, vs filtered blueberry or wildflower.

I only deal with citrus grove, cause it's simple for me. My farm has a couple hundred acres of orange trees beside it so i just line the hives up on that side of the property and let them do their thing. Couple times a year i pull the comb boxes filter the debris and dead bees out and fill up mason jars. Used to make good coin on it when we had 100 hives. Most of them died off from a mite infestation so down to under 20 now. That's 19 to many imo.

 

There was a segment on TV a while ago about honey and how there are so many that's either not real honey or pure.