Hello From Dripping Springs Texas

Hive Time · February 23, 2016, 04:43:14 PM

Hi, I was born and raised in Austin, TX which is now too big of a city to live in to me. We moved out to Dripping Springs which is about 30 miles due west of Austin to get closer to nature in OCT of 15.

I have land that is ag exempt (agricultural exemption on property taxes) with bees (TX law is between 5 - 20 acres) that we are now selling. Hence I have moved all the hives recently to my property in DS.

I have been a bee wrangler for about 8 years. I have a very hands off policy and really only open my hives (qty 10) when I want to harvest. There is a bee here that has been bred since the 80's to be immune to mites which I use exclusively and I have never had a problem, never a collapse, never a swarm, never a weak colony, which to me, means I have simply been lucky as is with most things in life.

I hope to learn a lot from the kind people here and thank you for letting me join the tribe.

A. mellifera

texanbelchers · February 23, 2016, 09:30:08 PM

Howdy and welcome. I wish I could find some land 30 minutes from Houston! I'd need to discover a gold mine first...

Rurification · February 24, 2016, 09:46:18 AM

Welcome to the forum! Great people here. Glad to hear there are lucky beekeepers out there. I look forward to hearing more about it.

Hive Time · February 24, 2016, 12:05:31 PM

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, it is becoming extremely expensive in this area.

Can't wait for the honey flow to start soon.

BeeMaster2 · February 24, 2016, 12:46:06 PM

Welcome to Beemaster.
Jim

KeyLargoBees · February 24, 2016, 02:23:08 PM

Riddle me this......if you only go in to harvest.....sounds to me like you are practicing no swarm management....and yet you state you have never had a swarm.....how does that work or am I misunderstanding something?

Hive Time · February 24, 2016, 10:22:29 PM

I think we have an issue of nomenclature. I used swarm above as a verb, as I tend to, in the context of my bees swarming away from my hive to another location. After reading above I realize I could have worded that better. Thank you, sir.

It appears you are in Florida. We have more weather in common probably than most here in the forum. I love the heat - easier to build, easier to garden, never have to shovel snow, blah, blah.

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KeyLargoBees · February 26, 2016, 01:18:06 PM

Yes we have quite a few commonalities...Mother is in San Marcos....and sister was in Wimberly and is now in Austin...and I have been through Dripping Springs quite a few times and had a few beers at Twisted X ;-)