1st outyard.

I had my first meeting with my 1st outyard location. It is about 20 minutes away which is not ideal but it is a great location! Oh, he also grows blackberrys and has someone that will start 2 to 3 acres of garlic!

35 acre nursery with tons of great crops, well over a thousand holly which is a great nectar plant, and a couple of fresh water sources right on his property. There is also some soy, corn, and wheat near by, I know corn is a good pollen source, will have to check on the others.

The owner of the property is very concerned with keeping his water clean and beneficial insects safe. If/when he needs to treat some of the trees in the area for bugs he takes them out of the nursery area and sprays the roots locally. It sounds like an organic beekeeper's ideal location!

I am now trying to decide how many of my 15 new nucs to take over there. I am sure the location could support all 15 but I want to have some diversity with a couple of areas, as well as have a couple of honey flavors produced. This location would really help with expansion of the hives as well i think. What to do!

Update on my knee? It still has some swelling from my Bee Venom Therapy or Apitherapy. One of the few times I have taken a sting below my heart, and only time on my leg, but I can feel pressure build a bit when just standing.

Hello World!

Welcome to the NC Green Bee blog! I will mostly talk about my beekeeping adventures here, sometimes link to sites or stories that are useful, or give you great tips about how to use homeopathic honey treatments, or really, homeopathic treatments from the hive.

Today was my first venture into Bee Venom Therapy (or Apitherapy), I stung myself in my left knee. A little over 5 years ago I tore my ACL, MCL, meniscus, and fractured my tibia plateau. Since then my knee has been very sensitive to the touch where I tore my MCL. It has been about 2 hours and so far I am having a normal reaction to the bee venom with local swelling and a little iching. Two things I hope to accomplish are 1.) to lessen my bodies reaction to bee venom and 2.) to lessen the pain in my knee!

NC Green Bee will be selling local honey (local to the Charlotte metro area) made by bees that are treated to the best way possible. I am not treating my bees with any chemicals or treatments of any kind. I am only feeding them sugar water when I have a new hive and only for as long as those bees need it. I will leave enough honey on the hives so that the bees can use the best thing for them for food, their own honey!

Well I am off to play a game with my neighbors now. Will let you know tomorrow what is up with my knee (I am predicting a bit of swelling into Wednesday).