Hello folks.
I don't yet have any bees - that has to wait for early spring - but I'm going to be building a TBH hive or two over the winter and getting into it. I currently live in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne. My area is mostly wet sclerophyll forest, with a large amount of ferns, and mountain ash as well as numerous other types of trees due to local arboretums and other types of garden.
Our three person family lives in a (very) rundown house on about 1/3 of an acre, with chickens, possums in our roof (they walk up the stairs inside the house) a cat, and I and my partner both work full time in the city. Bees are just one of the additions we're going to be making!
Welcome to Beemaster.
Jim
Howdy. Sounds like we'll be starting about the same time, although in quite different setups. Why the choic to go Topbar? More in tune with your environment? I haven't heard of many Aussies mention them yet.
Quote from: SB-Russ on April 30, 2015, 03:14:29 AM
Howdy. Sounds like we'll be starting about the same time, although in quite different setups. Why the choic to go Topbar? More in tune with your environment? I haven't heard of many Aussies mention them yet.
Top Bar seemed easier and cheaper to make in the garage, and a lot easier for a small person to lift :). It doesn't seem to be a huge thing here at all, though there are beginning to be a few folks working with them. It isn't an environmental thing so much as a bad back issue, and it's easier on me as the required supplies I can mostly make myself.
Fair enough. I haven't really looked into it myself too much. Hope it works out well for you.
Welcome and enjoy.
(Waves hello) :grin:
Welcome