Well been quite busy this summer moving into the new house. Most stuff is still in boxes laying around waiting for me and the misses to unpack. We settled into a nice area here. Very peaceful in the heart of farming by Canojaharie NY. It didnt leave me much time to tend to the bees, but I was able to tend to them anyway. This year was just horrible for honey here this year. I spoke with one beekeeper who claims he only pull 200 lbs of honey from 50 colonies he runs. Thats horrible. I had better luck than that, however I left the honey on way too late as I didn't have a honey house setup to extract it. I ended up having a larger local beek extract my honey for me. I got all the honey off this past weekend and it should be extracted tomorrow.
All beeks are complaining up here about only getting around 1/2 the expected honey crop this year. We will see. Time to feed before it gets too cold now.
So I just got word from the keep that extracted my honey for me this year. Very dismal. My bees only averaged 24 lbs per colony. Good thing I am not depending on beekeeping to live.