Adding Bee Nucs To The Homestead Hives

Bees are an easy animal to tend to and they bring a wide range of products to the homestead. Honey isn’t the only beneficial part of having bees. They pollinate your garden and give you pollen, propyls, and wax.

Honey can be stored indefinitely has a sugar source in your food storage. Propyls and pollen have health benefits like pollen can acclimate you to local pollen to calm your allergies, pretty neat!

Caring for bees requires checking on them occasionally to make sure the hive is healthy and alive and the queen is doing well. I treat my hives for mites and set them up for success in the winter. Truly, the most work you will be doing is gathering the honey and that sure is rewarding! Would you keep bees? 🐝

In this video I add another new hive to the homestead in one of the wax boxes. These new boxes I hope will do better during the winter months and protect the hive. These nucs come with a queen and should quickly start building their hive in their new location. They were a bit excited lol