n00bees

So, one hive was not enough. We got four more this year and Bruce and his son, Eli, got their first two hives. We drove up to pick them up today.

Initially, we were going to place them in the Community Gardens - local urban gardeners tending organic rented plots. They said it would be great, insurance wouldn't go up, I'd have classes for their gardeners and give them honey to sell, the bees would pollinate their gardens, they'd be able to have six hives. After we ordered 78,006 bees and built $600 of hives, they called and said that their "board" would only allow two. Since when does a pack of hippies have a "board?"

Instead, they're going to Roxbury Farm. It's a Community Supported Agriculture farm. People pay in the beginning of the season for a share of whatever is to be harvested each week for +/-26 weeks. The bees are on a hilltop in the middle of a pond. Couldn't be nicer. They're surrounded by hundreds of acres of organic crops. It is a little further away than I would have liked, but what can you do?