Out apiary (that’s an out out apiary!)

[user 15607]

How far would you travel for a good apiary site ?


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[enrico]

800 metres

 

[Poly Hive]

Not how far I would, as how far I did.

50 miles.

100 mile round trip.

It paid.

PH

 

[wightbees]

Do you mean, travel in van too, or how far to walk once at the site?

 

[wightbees]

I'm kind of lucky, can't drive no more than 25 miles.... Then I'm at the beach

 

[Swarm]

That depends on many things. I had a beautiful site arranged, a twenty mile round trip but pending due to the land being used for the Urdd. That site is still pending, unfortunately work has meant that not only do I have to forget that site for now (possibly lost the chance at all) but have had to scale down to just one site.
If I was retired and able to go off to the bees whenever I felt like, it would be no problem to do double that distance, it depends what the site offered.

Case in point, I have a feeder I want to check but it will be gone half past six before I can get to the apiary. It will all depend on whether I can still see, may be another job postponed to the weekend.

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Just over 3 miles here

 

[Amari]

That depends on many things. I had a beautiful site arranged, a twenty mile round trip but pending due to the land being used for the Urdd. That site is still pending, unfortunately work has meant that not only do I have to forget that site for now (possibly lost the chance at all) but have had to scale down to just one site.
If I was retired and able to go off to the bees whenever I felt like, it would be no problem to do double that distance, it depends what the site offered.
Case in point, I have a feeder I want to check but it will be gone half past six before I can get to the apiary. It will all depend on whether I can still see, may be another job postponed to the weekend.

Yes, work is the curse of beekeeping, though working in West Cheshire for 27 years I managed to take a couple of hives to the Llandegla moors in N.Wales several times, sometimes with ginormous crops of heather honey. Now retired I can pop up to my apiaries whenever. Nil desperandum, keep going and await the Valhalla of beekeeping when retired.

 

[Millet]

I'm currently doing a 145mile round trip every weekend, i need to go to the spot for other duties so it is not a problem, i would certainly love to have the bees closer but the forage is not as good on some of the other chosen spots i have so they can stay put for now.

 

[Hachi]

My round trip is over 40 miles for two apiary sites. I want to reduce it but its finding somewhere........

 

[eltalia]

?..migratory or permanent (?) site?
.. my commercial daya done and dusted I stick to the byroads these days
as our constabulary (sp?) are way too keen on keeping only vehixles less than
15yrs old on the roads. My bee-bomb (4×4) does not quite make that restriction.
Furtherest is 12mile, cross-country, like.

Bill

 

[oliver90owner]

Might one class an annual trip to the heather as an out apiary?

 

[bontbee]

My furtherest is a forty mile round trip, but I have two other apiaries on the way

 

[psafloyd]

How far would you travel for a good apiary site ?


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I have one 12 miles away, which the missus thinks is too far, but it is a good site, the bees are welcomed and during the day or at quiet times of the weekend, it is a 20 minute trip.

 

[Zante]

I currently have only one apiary, and it's about 5 Km each way.

I have three more sites lined up, but that one will still be the furthest.

 

[Teemore]

Currently my furthest out apiary is 12 miles away as the crow flies. That tends to be my first port of call and then I do two more out apiaries on the way home. I am not inclined to travel further as my beekeeping is done on Saturdays and evenings. Travelling eats into bee management time.

 

[wightbees]

I have a lovely site that I'm not using, all i have to do is catch a ferry then a 3hr road trip and I'm there. Mind looking at what ITLD does it just might be feasible ....