My favorite sentence in a NYT article called "Where Tiny Houses and Big Dreams Grow/A tech entrepreneur and his friends make a weekend community in the woods." Another tiny-house article. I love those. Hankering for mead? Check. Bees? Broach away!
And broaching alone will do/If bees are few.
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OK. You'll need a place to store the supers during winter, a bee-house for extraction in the spring and summer.... I've found there is an economy of scale. Got one hive, might as well have a couple of dozen. (Or just go with unwired frames and edible comb in the supers; whatever.)
I suspect Ms Dickinson, whose poetry reveals her knowledge of prairies was purely imaginary, nevertheless knew more about prairies than these people know about bees.
That doesn't look like a spot with a lot of flowering for bees.
Ask a Pict: You need heather to make a proper mead.
Blessed are the beekeepers.
Oh goodie; "City Slickers" in the woods instead of on a ranch.
These are hipsters having weekend pretends. Note that the headline describes this bee keeping thing as another "project."
Hippy communes almost always had a leader, a financial sponsor, in the form of a trust funder willing to share, to a point, their good fortune. They never end well. Someone will require trigger warnings for the bees because they will have drastic and dramatic bee allergy issues which will have to be discussed and dealt with over this long winter. Thus the placement of the hives.
That land is not teeming with food sources for bees. It is dark and wet. The project they will end with will be home grown weed. If they can find a sunny patch.
Highly recommend Madison's meadery, drinkable and quite good. They even make a couple pyments that are easy drinking for people with more pedestrian taste buds.
The mead and metal fest they sponsor every January is a hoot.
We had bees when I was a kid. I'm with HXG in the first post. There is a lot of equipment overhead. (Though if you knew someone who would let you rent equipment for extraction it might be reasonable to have a few hives.)
Wow - Hipster New Yorkers go to log cabin on weekend: film at 11:00
How is this News?
How did I find this?
Followed the buzz, of course.
If a hipster shaves his beard and wears a beard of honeybees instead, is that good for the environment?
rhhardin: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of bee-related products.
Bees are productive, xenophobic monarchists who are strong supporters of national and individual selfdefense. They are also pro-colonialism.
I get why I like them, but I'm surprised liberal hipsters do. Especially when they're o keen on telling us what we can learn from animals.
I like the Bees much more than the Hipsters.
"You need heather to make a proper mead."
Oh...THAT mead.....I thought maybe you needed Heather to make a proper Meade!
Never mind.
Apiarists
We've got a really good set up - 43 acres with crops and a garden, 3 hives, and a volunteer beekeeper who takes care of them and refunds around 25% of the honey, which we then turn into mead. We just tasted a batch that was universally applauded. Mix of 5 lbs. honey, 2 lemons, nutmeg, cloves, a little ginger, and some rosemary. Yield about 4 gallons. Overhead cost: $5.00. Great for holiday celebrations.
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