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Following on from the thread Number of hives.

What sort of distance do you have to travel between apiaries with your bees,or how near are your hives kept from your home ?
 
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I carry my hives for main flow inside radius 10 miles, mostly. They are out there about 2 -2,5 months and then I collect them again to home yard.
Quality of road is worse thing than distance. We have much bumpy sand roads.

I keep 2-3 hives in one spot.

Efficient foraging distance is inside 1000 yard radius. And no other bees there.
Google earth is handy to look, which pastures are inside 1 km radius.

I km sounds like short but inside that radius the area is 300 hectares. What it is, that is the question.

Flow is very short happening in the summer. Out of flow bees must harvest poor pastures. That is why I keep few hives in one spot.

but inside that radius the area is 300 hectares. What it is, that is the question.

If you put into Google Earth Sippola Suomi, I am only hive keeper on that area.
It depends much, where are rape fields next summer.
 
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Furthest is 25 miles but have 2 other sites in between and I go to each in turn during season . Home apiary I visit most days and is on my own piece of land within 200m of house.
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Old apiary was 3 miles and new apiary is 1 mile and 2nd apiary is about the same distance so quite luck really
 
If I have to travel more than 20-25 mins to an apiary site it really needs to be worth it. The sites furthest away from me need to have the hives that cause the least amount of trouble.

My apiary at home is where my queens are raised, the next closest site (less than 10mins) is where nucs and colonies are built up.

The biggest drain in the active season is travelling between sites, in general my permanent sites are around 10-15 mins travel time apart.
 
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Google earth

Is quite handy to look what are pastures and how far.

There are "tools" in left upper corner and there you get a mouse yardstick .


When I now look Stiffys home place Kernow, I can see only cultivated fields.

My landscapes are mostly forest, but mostly dry cliffy forests, which give no honey.
Fields are zero pastures and bees must only fly over vast fields.

Young, down cutted forests, which have clay soil, are the best honey pastures.
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These are main idea, where I put my hives. To drive 10 or 20 km, it is not important., when I load my car.

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From Google I can really see, how much my cottage area has fields. And it has too much beehives on same pastures. Look from Google Earth Liikkala.

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From my base, small workshop three sites all within four miles. The problem is the travelling to my base can be either walking distance or 25 miles.
 
One hive in back garden, planning to move one to an allotment about 1 mile away; main apiary 3 miles from house.
 
It's not so much distance for me but travel. 25 - 30 minutes is my max.
 
56 miles..... but I get to see my mom and the horses and enjoy some countryside life.
 
30 feet from the back door - had an out apiary 3.1 miles away but gave it up as the bees really struggled there, almost starved and turned into the bees from hell...:(
 
120kms, the answer to previous post of how do you manage hives at that sort of distance is, we go to our second home almost every weekend so no problem.
 
15-20 mins to where I keep my hives, except for one hive and a couple of nucs, they are 3 minutes away. I had an offer of another site but haven't worked out if it is worth it. Travelling time would be an hour+ maybe more at certain times of the day.
 
My main apairy is 5 miles and I have others at 12miles and 13miles (5 miles between them)

I also have an OSR apiary 25miles away in Bedfordshire, it can take me longer to travel the 5miles across London to my main apiary than to travel down the M1 to the OSR apiary
 
Home apiary about 150 yards away in the secret garden beyond the garden, Garn Cottage 5 miles and the association apiary 17 miles (but only two from the office I'm based in at the moment) currently investigating an apiary in Balsam country about 15-20 miles away as well.
 

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