Recent content by oldboar

Yep, straight in at the deep end. In fact really deep. What we're ending up with is two full, healthy colonies and two more problematic colonies - as well as another, very large colony that we'll be babysitting while the owner's going through a desensitization course (if they come out of it and...

Yep, we have him mentoring at a distance and access to a very supportive local BKA - as well as a few local, very experienced beekeepers who've said that they're willing to help out with while we find out feet. So very much the deep end, and only going to get deeper, but I think we've got...

The agreement is that we'll own all the colonies, but only one of the hives - so the bees are ours, but the equipment (apart from one hive) is on loan until next year to give us time to get our own equipment together. If the desensitization works then the original owner will be having his...