Bee Update...

We have really enjoyed having the honeybees on our property this year.  Even more so when we came home one day to a box of honey sitting on our front porch!  We ended up with a gallon and a half of honey.  The kids have been enjoying honey, in moderation, on many things ever since.  It was funny, shortly after we got the honey, the kids all commented how they just don't think they could go back to store bought honey, we are spoiled now.  They said store honey tastes artificial somehow and that our honey tastes richer.  Interesting observation.

The honey we got likely wasn't from only our bees on the property, it was probably a combination of many hives from the local area but still it has to be better at least being this local than what you can get in the stores.

We had very few negative interactions with the bees the entire time they were here May-October.  We respected their space and they left us alone for the most part.   I really enjoyed seeing them on all kinds of blossoms in the garden, in fact that is probably why we had such great yields of a lot of the crops.

Someday I'd like to learn to keep bees, but this arrangement worked out perfectly for us!  Free honey, and the education in watching them tend to the bees.   I'd like to learn more, for instance, where do they store them over winter?  How often do they collect honey and how do they know how much to leave the bees to get through winter?

I haven't heard if they plan to bring more back next spring.  I sure hope they do, we look forward to more tasty honey!