When you start, just focus on learning basic beekeeping methods. Keep experimentation to the minimum. Learn the tried and true first until you have established, healthy hives.
*2- Start Early In the Seas
Ask beekeeping resources in your area to find the right time to start a colony. You don't want to start too early before the bees will be able to find food and keep warm, but you don't want to start so late that they don't have time to make enough honey for the winter or have missed the first big push of nectar.
*3- Know You May Not Have Honey That First Year
Depending on your location and the weather that year, it isn't uncommon that new colony of bees wouldn't produce enough surplus honey their first year for you to harvest any. Beekeeping is something to take up with a long view. There is, in many ways, no end-game in beekeeping.
*4- Build or Buy the Hive
When you purchase the hive or the component parts the wood is unfinished. You will need to stain or paint the wood in order to protect it from the winter. Ours is painted with exterior paint, to match my neighbor’s house since the hive is on her property and is shared between our two families. The choice is yours to make, but your hive will be out in the weather so the wood needs to be protected somehow.
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