I’m going to be a beekeeper again, for the first time in about 20 years.
When the varroa mite got to NZ in April 2000, I still had one hobby hive. I wasn’t a very good hobbyist, as I was not driven by the more commercial attitude of “got to get the work done”. And I lost my hive to varroa, in that first year or so.
But now I’ve bought some new equipment, and will be receiving a nuc hive in a few weeks.
So I’ll maybe keep this blog going as a sort of apiary diary of my first year of beekeeping – again. I guess my first real year beekeeping was 1973, with a hive my Dad gave me. I bundled it bee-tight and took it from Houston to Austin in the back seat of my car!