Increasing your Chances of Getting Through the First Five Years of Beekeeping

Karl Colyer has kept bees since 2003. As well as building his own hives, he raises his own queens using locally adapted bees that are known to be hardy, gentle and productive.

A simple summary of the top-level objectives over the first years as the colony increases in size and age and the beekeeper deals with the challenges and opportunities that being a beekeeper presents over that time-frame.