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If you’re interested in having bees, get started now with your bee education. Check out this blog to get going - Basic Beekeeping. Lots of information and they sell hives, equipment, queens and package bees.

A beekeeper builds his own hive with a stump and chainsaw to make a bear hive

Here’s an interesting article at Slate about hive rental prices. If you’re interested in going big in bee hives, renting them out for crop pollination seems to be the way to go, the rental price will probably only be going up until more hives are established nationwide.

Here’s a local news story about the Decline in bee population puts sting on honey prices

And after reading that, make yourself feel better with some Honey recipes

Finally got a digital camcorder. Welcome to the future. It’ll be a handy accessory to carry in my shiny metal aircar (was listening to Rush yesterday). So I’ll be putting together some strange and mostly boring videos of the farm and the rag-tag motley collection of critters and other items of general interest.

Here is our channel on the YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/exoticgamedotcom

And here is our first video posted :

It’s a few minutes of the Bison lazily grazing in the field. There’s 11 of them currently, 9 are coming up on 2 years old and you’ll see 2 that are about 1 year old. At some points it’ll seem like I’m 8 feet away from them, that’s because I was about 8 feet away from them. They’re still definitely wild animals but they are constantly exposed to people and are even hand feed cattle cubes some times so standing calmly near them is possible. As they’re getting bigger and they’ll be mature this year for the fall mating season, we’ll be giving them more space and most interaction will be from the other side of a fence or from the bed of a truck.

Bookmark our YouTube channel, we’ll be adding more videos.

This article on msnbc.com talks about an antibiotic honey mix called Medihoney. From the article: “Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum honey, manuka honey comes from hives of bees that collect nectar from manuka and jelly bushes in Australia and New Zealand.”

It’s official. Last evening we became beekeepers. We purchased two active hives from a local beekeeper and the journey has begun. Like most things we embark on, we have know earthly clue what we’re doing. But that’s never stopped us before.