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It's about that time.
I did end up buying out another producer that I'd been doing some bee stuff with since the beginning. The downside is I had/have a bunch of equipment to move, and a week after i did the deal something happened and I had an unexpected operation and was in sweat pants for a month. Couldn't do anything. I hired some HS guys to help pick things up and put things down and they've done a great job helping me.
In the meantime, in addition to their equipment, I got their client list and the 2nd week in, I had some big orders come in and I wasn't prepared. I had to rely on the other people in my house to bottle a bunch of honey and they knocked it out of the park. I also was in the middle of rebranding, and have new logo, labels, cards and am working on some swag(hats and shirts). The hobby is turning into a job pretty quickly. The good news is, I've been hustling this month on the phone and I've added several stores, some pretty decent sized orders.
I've had good survival this spring and have been feeding some sugar, and lately some old honey and pollen. I want the bees to fire up a little early so I can do some splits of hives. My goal this year will be to more than double my hives and have a second bee yard. I need to make a lot more honey now, and there is only 1 way to do that.
I'll try to share more pics of swarm catches, and if I can figure out how to share videos I'll do some more of that too.
If you're someone I trust and are interested, message me and I'll share a fb link you can follow to watch me get stung.
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