That is a good question of how much will the consumer bear?? With the increased price of everything else the consumer is not surprised. With the increased cost of honey production something has to give. Thanks Bob for the video and info.
Sad to hear of bad honey crop for those beekeepers. Here in n.w. alabama it's robbing season now. I will be very lucky to to get half the honey per colony as I did last year. Thank you for the video.
What do they contribute the bad year to? Too much rain? I know here in Central Texas, we had a lot of rain in 2021 and had a horrible Honey year. I haven't been beekeeping long enough to say "It's the worst it's ever been", but I did hear from other beekeepers around here, that 2021 was the worst it's ever been around here.
I'm in kentucky and just a hobbiest beekeeper for 7 years but I have around 70 fruit trees and one thing I noticed this year, we had such a warm winter that bees were flying most of it. Then in the spring everything was already blooming 4-6 weeks earlier than normal and the bees hadn't even started really building up on populations yet. I had an unexpected swarm in february which just seemed crazy to me. Then, this is the first time in 7 years my peaches, pears, plums, apples, and blueberries didn't bloom at all. Although elderberry, lemons, blackberry seem to be doing ok so far. I pulled honey about 3-4 weeks earlier this year than I normally do and thought it was going to be a great year but have since realized not much more is coming in... also seems like the spring flow ended 3-6 weeks earlier than normal. Its also been dry here and we finally got 1/8" of rain last night but I'm not too hopeful that will mean anything. We just had an entire week of mid-high 90 degree weather that we normally don't see until July.
@@bobbinnie9872 I agree, I am just baffled. A few days ago once I determined my apples also weren't going to bloom, i started to think about why. I suspected maybe the orchard didn't get the required "chill hours" so I started looking to see if that data was available online or not for this year. Even though we had an extremely mild winter, sans the week of christmas, I guess the nights were cold enough to create enough chill hours for them to bloom. Then I started thinking maybe I missed a frost because my peaches were loaded with buds but then no bloom and I could only find the 1 day in march others have mentioned. I didn't observe a frost here but that doesn't mean I just missed it because it melted. A march frost shouldn't have affected an apple bloom which usually occurs for me in may-june but my apple trees don't even have flower buds on them.
Join the club, Bob! TEK here in south-east Queensland Australia. I have not extracted any honey for the last 14 months, just sufficient stores for my Bees to tick over. Hope you this next spring season will be a lot better.
Yep if prices go to high going into a recession it could seriously hurt the market and industry. It has been dryer here this year in SW WA, but that's easy with how wet we are normally. Short crappy Spring (weather wise) and going right into Summer temps. I am betting it'll be a great garden year this year. We have already been up over 90's a few times and with the late rains we had it's sure bring on the Blackberries.😋It's looking like it'll be a very good BB year.
@@bobbinnie9872 Interesting I wouldn't have thought it would be that much different. But I guess different soil composition and amounts of rain. We just got a light rain last night right at the beginning of BB's last night so it gona be booming.😋
Temps got low 20s/teens in central Mississippi on March 20th. Destroyed a lot of forage. Spring flow was just enough to sustain. I’m assuming that same front is what hurt Florida/Georgia? Thankfully Tallow is rebounding here and supers are filling.
Yeah, here in central Wisconsin, it's been really warm and really dry. Black locust was over and done with in a blink, smoke from Canada isn't helping. We really could do with some rain.
Hi Bob it would be neat if you could put together a video showing your perspective of the different avenues of commercial honey production there are and why you chose sourwood vs other types of honey like sweet clover, canola, alfalfa. Thanks
Bob here in Dandridge, Tn it has been a very dry spring. Kind of like a spring dearth as I have heard others use that term. We had a little bit if rain 3 weeks ago and my bees were finally bringing nectar in but definitely no where near as the last few years in my area. Either way we are blessed and will take what the good lord gives us. Great video as always sir and look forward to seeing you in the very near future.
@@bobbinnie9872 wow! What a small world we live in. LOl!! I'll make sure to say hi to her next time I stop in and visit. I was hoping my bees would bring some of the clear nectar in for clear honey this year but we got very very little. There is always next year though. Lol. I hope the clear honey I gave you at the Hive Life conference was enjoyable and was glad I was able to share with you guys. I look forward to seeing you at the next conference. Have a blessed year sir.
Terrible here in Louisiana. The late freeze that dropped in the 20's in March burned the tallow trees and residual flora that helps supplement. Used to be a big beekeeper in Blackshear as well down next to Waycross. Yea, bad year for sure. Usually have an early harvest by now waiting on summer harvest, and here we are with nothing yet and supers just not filling up.....
Hi Bob, I been meaning to ask you how you like the triangle bee escapes. Seems like it’s the only one available in a couple of the big supply houses. Thank you!
Hey Bob thanks for answering my questions lately. I wanted to ask do you ever have problems with ants or usually are ants just around the entrance etc or on the cover but not actually in the hive? Because the bees would attack them? Do you find ants are not a problem unless they’re actually found inside the hive? How do you guys deal with them.
We do occasionally find ants building their nest under a hive or even under a pallet of hives. One of the first things we notice is that the bees are more defensive because they are constantly battling the ants to keep them out. The only ant they don't seem to be able to keep out are what we call sugar ants that are very small. Everything else they can keep out. We don't hesitate to put ant granules on an ant hill if we spot them. I don't like killing things but in this case I do.
Hey Bob , my bees in the foothills of N.C are about 1 mile to 2 miles away from a bunch of sourwood trees. Will they go to those or stay closer home . We have clover and mimosa trees in bloom closer.
Here in Virginia Beach, VA, it's been my best honey year. Local honey at the farmers market is selling at $20 a pound. Now that may bee inflated due to the buyer.. local farmers market catering to the larger city crowd, but it's still been my best year. Even the local bee club had a member report 25 gallons of honey from 18 colonies collected so far. Don't know what that translates to poundage wise... Of the 16 colonies i keep, starting with 6 at the beginning of the year (using your advice), I look to harvest at least a full medium super from each and some 2 or more. One of my boxes is working the 3rd super now and will need a 4th... thanks to you!
Bob, I’ve seen this truck driver in one of your videos before. Unless something amazing happens I won’t harvest near as much honey as I did last year. I will definitely have more than my immediately family will eat and the Bible says God will supply our needs. If I don’t have enough to sell any then thats fine. I’m a hobbyist beekeeper and I would be sad if I didn’t get a couple of gallons for our own consumption. However, I do feel bad for the folks that makes their living from honey if their crop is short. In that case if a lot of big producers fall short then I expect the price to go up. The old supply and demand rule will kick in!
If the price goes up, due to the nature of Honey, which is not necessity or "MUST=HAVE" they don't bother to buy for consumption. Worrisome... Anyway, God bless you!
We are behind here in S.E. MI. The Russian olive, honey locust, and berries are all in bloom. Looking forward to making blackberry jam. If the blueberries are indication. We should have a really tasted berry crop as it's been dry. The wildfire smoke has cooled things a lot.
We are in a severe drought in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure what we will get through our summer months. Right now we have about the same for Spring honey, but we will see.
Autumn Olive and the black locust been massive here in Michigan.. locust started week early and still going strong. Dry as its been i expect basswood is going to be good.. yellow sweet clover just getting started.. susposed to start raining hopefully before the white sweet clover is effected
Hello Bob I'm from Mexico and I always watch your videos, here in Mexico we have very good honey from the desert. I would like to send you a sample and maybe you are interested in making a purchase
Bob, this year El Nino which means the west sea of Peru gets really hot. EL Nino means cold spring for North Hemisphere, I heard. However, it would be also changed due to global warming... Thailand hit 40 Celsius this spring. Anyway, Bob, the price of sugar has been sky-rocketed. And everything has gone up, too. So, I am curious. How much would you increase the price of Honey as well as NUCs? Thanks in advance ~ Also, how many drums do you usually have for sales per year?
Hey Bob! I have a question about taking honey production from within a single box without using any super. Can we install two vertical queen excluders after frame no 2 and frame no 8, and seperate the brood chamber from the harvestable frames (frame no 1,2,9,10) and let the bees give us super quality honey from within a single box? Here in India Beekeepers often don't use a super as they claim that often the flows are short and not very strong to fill a super full of honey! The super does work during strong and sustained flows like mustard/canola, but not often otherwise. Can this idea work ? Please give some advice about this slight change in design. If successful, smaller and less strong flows can also be targeted, and it may vastly benefit smaller Beekeepers here in india! Regards 🙏
Being from Lowndes county I can tell ya there really didn’t seem to be much of an early spring flow. You will see nectar start coming in the first couple of weeks in April with the black gum Tupelo, privet, then gallberry and tallow. The tallow seems to be a disappointment here this year as the blooms are exceptionally smaller, and with no early spring flow I got about 120 pounds this year per hive. Where I believe I can get 200 plus with colonies that are good honey producers.
@@bobbinnie9872 The tallow bloom last year was about 8 1/2 inches long which seems normal, this year it 3 to 4 inches long and it seems its just not there. Of course the 5 colonies I have on it are not as strong as I like, splits this spring and a couple of small swarms.
I'm in south Alabama and it is terrible this year. Some guys south of me are finally getting a flow from tallow trees, but I don't have tallow here. Every time anything bloomed or budded out this year we got a hard freeze. I give up worrying about making honey and I am concentrating on just keeping bees feed. Fingers crossed for a decent fall.
@@bobbinnie9872 that is what I'm working on doing here. I have learned a lot from you. You are a great teacher. Going to try my hand at grafting this week. I'm as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. But like you said in your video on rearing queens, just do it, so here we go.
Ha Bob Thanks for this. Honey production not good here in Virginia not good at all it is over. I am removing mine today if the weather permits. I was glad to hear u say that if u raise the prices to high people will not buy it. That is the way I feel and think. The price of honey has really went up and I flat refuse to raise my price. I have people that need it for there health and I feel it will hurt them to raise it. Anyway thanks so much for the vide hope u make more soon, take care and have a blessed day and week
@@scottmueller2060 Hi Scott. I've had several comments from people that want to see how you tie your loads of barrels down. The next time you come I'd like to take a picture before you undo everything.
Interesting and your comment regarding the price of honey. About a year ago a guy at work told me her could buy the "same" honey at Wal Mart for the same price. I told him he needed to go buy that Wal Mart Honey! Been a very interesting year for us. DRY DRY DRY, Then the last couple of weeks decent rains. Hopefully mid July we will be able to harvest some honey!
That is a good question of how much will the consumer bear?? With the increased price of everything else the consumer is not surprised. With the increased cost of honey production something has to give. Thanks Bob for the video and info.
Truckers are the backbone to our country
More than many people realize. 👍
Sad to hear of bad honey crop for those beekeepers. Here in n.w. alabama it's robbing season now. I will be very lucky to to get half the honey per colony as I did last year. Thank you for the video.
Seth's laugh is like a train whistle: you can hear it a mile away and you know a good time is right around the bend 😅
Sure hope your producers get a little rain and the markets hold. God bless that Trucker, they’re the life blood of industry.
I can confirm poor crop here in NE Florida...
Really interesting figures. Thanks for sharing.
What do they contribute the bad year to? Too much rain?
I know here in Central Texas, we had a lot of rain in 2021 and had a horrible Honey year. I haven't been beekeeping long enough to say "It's the worst it's ever been", but I did hear from other beekeepers around here, that 2021 was the worst it's ever been around here.
Texas, I think it was the early warmup followed by a freeze.
Ill always have some of the tupelo and sourwood at my table no matter the cost.Good stuff !
I'm in kentucky and just a hobbiest beekeeper for 7 years but I have around 70 fruit trees and one thing I noticed this year, we had such a warm winter that bees were flying most of it. Then in the spring everything was already blooming 4-6 weeks earlier than normal and the bees hadn't even started really building up on populations yet. I had an unexpected swarm in february which just seemed crazy to me. Then, this is the first time in 7 years my peaches, pears, plums, apples, and blueberries didn't bloom at all. Although elderberry, lemons, blackberry seem to be doing ok so far. I pulled honey about 3-4 weeks earlier this year than I normally do and thought it was going to be a great year but have since realized not much more is coming in... also seems like the spring flow ended 3-6 weeks earlier than normal. Its also been dry here and we finally got 1/8" of rain last night but I'm not too hopeful that will mean anything. We just had an entire week of mid-high 90 degree weather that we normally don't see until July.
Ouch. That's the oddest story I've heard so far.
@@bobbinnie9872 I agree, I am just baffled. A few days ago once I determined my apples also weren't going to bloom, i started to think about why. I suspected maybe the orchard didn't get the required "chill hours" so I started looking to see if that data was available online or not for this year. Even though we had an extremely mild winter, sans the week of christmas, I guess the nights were cold enough to create enough chill hours for them to bloom. Then I started thinking maybe I missed a frost because my peaches were loaded with buds but then no bloom and I could only find the 1 day in march others have mentioned. I didn't observe a frost here but that doesn't mean I just missed it because it melted. A march frost shouldn't have affected an apple bloom which usually occurs for me in may-june but my apple trees don't even have flower buds on them.
@@otuso109 agree
Join the club, Bob!
TEK here in south-east Queensland Australia.
I have not extracted any honey for the last 14 months, just sufficient stores for my Bees to tick over.
Hope you this next spring season will be a lot better.
Yes, we have a 60% chance of rain next Sunday hopefully
Yep if prices go to high going into a recession it could seriously hurt the market and industry.
It has been dryer here this year in SW WA, but that's easy with how wet we are normally. Short crappy Spring (weather wise) and going right into Summer temps. I am betting it'll be a great garden year this year. We have already been up over 90's a few times and with the late rains we had it's sure bring on the Blackberries.😋It's looking like it'll be a very good BB year.
I used to make blackberry honey some years when I was in Oregon. It's a different taste and color here in Georgia.
@@bobbinnie9872 Interesting I wouldn't have thought it would be that much different. But I guess different soil composition and amounts of rain. We just got a light rain last night right at the beginning of BB's last night so it gona be booming.😋
Temps got low 20s/teens in central Mississippi on March 20th. Destroyed a lot of forage. Spring flow was just enough to sustain. I’m assuming that same front is what hurt Florida/Georgia? Thankfully Tallow is rebounding here and supers are filling.
Northwest Jersey started great but the dry weather has killed the flow. .2" of rain in May. Now cool and smoke from Canada and still no rain.
Yeah, here in central Wisconsin, it's been really warm and really dry. Black locust was over and done with in a blink, smoke from Canada isn't helping. We really could do with some rain.
Thanks for sharing interesting content Bob👍🇺🇲😊
Here in East Central Minnesota this will be our third year of drought. Last year's production was 20% of normal. Brutal.
That sounds brutal.
Hi Bob it would be neat if you could put together a video showing your perspective of the different avenues of commercial honey production there are and why you chose sourwood vs other types of honey like sweet clover, canola, alfalfa. Thanks
That's a good idea. In a nut shell, Sourwood grows where we choose to live.
Great video!!Always great information,
Bob here in Dandridge, Tn it has been a very dry spring. Kind of like a spring dearth as I have heard others use that term. We had a little bit if rain 3 weeks ago and my bees were finally bringing nectar in but definitely no where near as the last few years in my area. Either way we are blessed and will take what the good lord gives us. Great video as always sir and look forward to seeing you in the very near future.
Thank you for the report. Joanne, the lady who runs our bottling room is from Dandridge.
@@bobbinnie9872 wow! What a small world we live in. LOl!! I'll make sure to say hi to her next time I stop in and visit. I was hoping my bees would bring some of the clear nectar in for clear honey this year but we got very very little. There is always next year though. Lol. I hope the clear honey I gave you at the Hive Life conference was enjoyable and was glad I was able to share with you guys. I look forward to seeing you at the next conference. Have a blessed year sir.
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Terrible here in Louisiana. The late freeze that dropped in the 20's in March burned the tallow trees and residual flora that helps supplement. Used to be a big beekeeper in Blackshear as well down next to Waycross. Yea, bad year for sure. Usually have an early harvest by now waiting on summer harvest, and here we are with nothing yet and supers just not filling up.....
Hi Mike. Seems to be the same story throughout the southeast.
Hi Bob what is your average honey price that you pay beekeeps. In Australia it's $4.6kg commercial Beekeeper’s.
Our current price is $2.85 to $3.15 US per pound depending on the quality of the honey.
I'm having a great honey year so far this year. Almost two full boxes per hive so far and it's just early spring so far
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What state are you in?
@@jimallen1176 Missouri
So the price is $3.00 - $3.50 per lb? Who pays shipping? Is that price delivered or is shipping additional to the price of the honey?
In most cases the buyer handles the shipping.
Hi Bob, I been meaning to ask you how you like the triangle bee escapes.
Seems like it’s the only one available in a couple of the big supply houses. Thank you!
I've had good luck with them. Like any escape they don't clear 100% but it does well.
Hey Bob thanks for answering my questions lately. I wanted to ask do you ever have problems with ants or usually are ants just around the entrance etc or on the cover but not actually in the hive? Because the bees would attack them? Do you find ants are not a problem unless they’re actually found inside the hive? How do you guys deal with them.
We do occasionally find ants building their nest under a hive or even under a pallet of hives. One of the first things we notice is that the bees are more defensive because they are constantly battling the ants to keep them out. The only ant they don't seem to be able to keep out are what we call sugar ants that are very small. Everything else they can keep out. We don't hesitate to put ant granules on an ant hill if we spot them. I don't like killing things but in this case I do.
Hey Bob , my bees in the foothills of N.C are about 1 mile to 2 miles away from a bunch of sourwood trees. Will they go to those or stay closer home . We have clover and mimosa trees in bloom closer.
Bees will go that far if there's a good nectar producer.
19 days without rain nw Ohio 22 is the historical record looks like we just might break that set a very very long time ago early 1900’s
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This was a great season for the hives. I have many really strong colonies but a really bad year for honey. I was really surprised.
Finally near a Kroger (Sidney oh). How can I tell if the honey comes from you, or can I? Guessing it’s Kroger branded
All of the honey we provide to Krogers has our label on it. (Blue Ridge Honey Co.)
@@bobbinnie9872 damn….worth a try :). Thanks for the quick reply
Here in Virginia Beach, VA, it's been my best honey year. Local honey at the farmers market is selling at $20 a pound. Now that may bee inflated due to the buyer.. local farmers market catering to the larger city crowd, but it's still been my best year. Even the local bee club had a member report 25 gallons of honey from 18 colonies collected so far. Don't know what that translates to poundage wise...
Of the 16 colonies i keep, starting with 6 at the beginning of the year (using your advice), I look to harvest at least a full medium super from each and some 2 or more.
One of my boxes is working the 3rd super now and will need a 4th... thanks to you!
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Bob, I’ve seen this truck driver in one of your videos before. Unless something amazing happens I won’t harvest near as much honey as I did last year. I will definitely have more than my immediately family will eat and the Bible says God will supply our needs. If I don’t have enough to sell any then thats fine. I’m a hobbyist beekeeper and I would be sad if I didn’t get a couple of gallons for our own consumption. However, I do feel bad for the folks that makes their living from honey if their crop is short. In that case if a lot of big producers fall short then I expect the price to go up. The old supply and demand rule will kick in!
If the price goes up, due to the nature of Honey, which is not necessity or "MUST=HAVE" they don't bother to buy for consumption. Worrisome... Anyway, God bless you!
We are behind here in S.E. MI. The Russian olive, honey locust, and berries are all in bloom. Looking forward to making blackberry jam. If the blueberries are indication. We should have a really tasted berry crop as it's been dry. The wildfire smoke has cooled things a lot.
We are in a severe drought in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure what we will get through our summer months. Right now we have about the same for Spring honey, but we will see.
Hopefully rain is on its way.
@@bobbinnie9872 Supposed to rain half an inch today, hoping for more.
Autumn Olive and the black locust been massive here in Michigan.. locust started week early and still going strong. Dry as its been i expect basswood is going to be good.. yellow sweet clover just getting started.. susposed to start raining hopefully before the white sweet clover is effected
Sounds great!
hello friend The same problem in Iraq. Very little honey production. due to weather fluctuations
It seems to be an odd year in many places.
Unfortunately yes . Hope next year will be better for everyone
Hello Bob I'm from Mexico and I always watch your videos, here in Mexico we have very good honey from the desert. I would like to send you a sample and maybe you are interested in making a purchase
Hi Alberto. It would be fun to taste it and thank you for the offer but we advertise our honey as being domestic.
same here in Pakistan، due to climate change very small amount of honey 🥲 this year and price got high too much
Someone also commented from Iraq with a poor crop.
Had a mediocre year here in Dahlonega, Ga. Still looking for the sourwood flow to get going good. 🤞
I hope we both have a good one.
When you buy the honey who pays the shipping, normally?
I almost always do.
It is very dry in Chicago and Wisconsin
Chicago too?
Bob, this year El Nino which means the west sea of Peru gets really hot. EL Nino means cold spring for North Hemisphere, I heard. However, it would be also changed due to global warming... Thailand hit 40 Celsius this spring.
Anyway, Bob, the price of sugar has been sky-rocketed. And everything has gone up, too. So, I am curious. How much would you increase the price of Honey as well as NUCs? Thanks in advance ~
Also, how many drums do you usually have for sales per year?
We are increasing our prices 5% to 8% this year. Last year we sold about 2500 drums.
@@bobbinnie9872 Always grateful for your time and care. Thanks ~
Hey Bob! I have a question about taking honey production from within a single box without using any super. Can we install two vertical queen excluders after frame no 2 and frame no 8, and seperate the brood chamber from the harvestable frames (frame no 1,2,9,10) and let the bees give us super quality honey from within a single box? Here in India Beekeepers often don't use a super as they claim that often the flows are short and not very strong to fill a super full of honey! The super does work during strong and sustained flows like mustard/canola, but not often otherwise. Can this idea work ? Please give some advice about this slight change in design. If successful, smaller and less strong flows can also be targeted, and it may vastly benefit smaller Beekeepers here in india! Regards 🙏
Yes, I believe that could work as long as the colony didn't too overcrowded. 🙏
@@bobbinnie9872 🙏🙏 Appreciate your regular replies Bob! You are a great help. Super Regards.
Wednesday? Life is good!!
This was an easy one.
Being from Lowndes county I can tell ya there really didn’t seem to be much of an early spring flow. You will see nectar start coming in the first couple of weeks in April with the black gum Tupelo, privet, then gallberry and tallow. The tallow seems to be a disappointment here this year as the blooms are exceptionally smaller, and with no early spring flow I got about 120 pounds this year per hive. Where I believe I can get 200 plus with colonies that are good honey producers.
I didn't know there was tallow there.
@@bobbinnie9872 The tallow bloom last year
was about 8 1/2 inches long which seems normal, this year it 3 to 4 inches long and it seems its just not there. Of course the 5 colonies I have on it are not as strong as I like, splits this spring and a couple of small swarms.
I'm in south Alabama and it is terrible this year. Some guys south of me are finally getting a flow from tallow trees, but I don't have tallow here. Every time anything bloomed or budded out this year we got a hard freeze. I give up worrying about making honey and I am concentrating on just keeping bees feed. Fingers crossed for a decent fall.
That's one of the reasons I used to make lot's of nucs and packages. Income in a bad season.
@@bobbinnie9872 that is what I'm working on doing here. I have learned a lot from you. You are a great teacher. Going to try my hand at grafting this week. I'm as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. But like you said in your video on rearing queens, just do it, so here we go.
Ha Bob Thanks for this. Honey production not good here in Virginia not good at all it is over. I am removing mine today if the weather permits. I was glad to hear u say that if u raise the prices to high people will not buy it. That is the way I feel and think. The price of honey has really went up and I flat refuse to raise my price. I have people that need it for there health and I feel it will hurt them to raise it. Anyway thanks so much for the vide hope u make more soon, take care and have a blessed day and week
Hi Frances. Sorry to hear of your poor crop but glad to hear of your philosophy on prices.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob that ment a lot to me. Hope u have a blessed week
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You have very colorful and clean beehives. 👍
I would have liked to seen how that incoming load was secured. I don't think I've ever seen drums transported on a flatbed without being palletized.
Pretty sure the incoming ones are upright.
V-boards and good strapping.
It's much easier with out the pallets
@@scottmueller2060 Hi Scott. I've had several comments from people that want to see how you tie your loads of barrels down. The next time you come I'd like to take a picture before you undo everything.
Interesting and your comment regarding the price of honey. About a year ago a guy at work told me her could buy the "same" honey at Wal Mart for the same price. I told him he needed to go buy that Wal Mart Honey! Been a very interesting year for us. DRY DRY DRY, Then the last couple of weeks decent rains. Hopefully mid July we will be able to harvest some honey!