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Hi All,
Iam selva from India, the land of Agriculture. It is the backbone for the Indian economy. I am an urban farmer with interest in bee keeping. Excited to know about honeyflow and eagar to use this in my country and help people to get into honey farming.

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Hi Frankie, well done mate, I’m sure there’ll be a huge call for your services later on in the year. You can get them out of cavity brick houses & chimneys using a bee escape. You probably already knew that. It can be time consuming. good luck & cheers

Hi Brian,

I’m looking forward to my flow hive arriving soon. I’m based out in Woodinville, Washington so will be looking for community members around the area.

Have you been enjoying your flow hive?

Decided not to be too greedy and extracted 14kg, left the rest with the girls for winter. Happy to report we are coming out the other side of winter and there are still several kilos in the super.

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Hi everyone! I am totally completely new aspiring beekeeper! I’m very excited to learn from all of you! I just bought the book “backyard beekeeping”. Any and all information is welcome!! I’m wanting to buy a flow hive before the 25th to get the free upgrade and then learn as much as possible before adding my bees. I do not have anything to speak of for beekeeping. So do I just need to order the complete full flow hive?
Oh, and I’m from a small town just north of Nashville, TN.

Welcome Chantel, there are no silly questions here so feel free to ask anything. There is a lot to know but that is entirely up to you. The full hive will get you just that, a hive. You will then need a veil or suit, gloves, a hive tool, smoker, hive stand and of course bees. Have a look through the following posts in Beekeeping basics, this might help explain a few things.
http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/beekeeping-basic-essentials-what-do-you-need/1479

http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/beehive-stands-are-they-necessary/1484

http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/building-a-langstroth-hive-preparing-for-bees/1481

http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/installing-package-bees-without-shaking-or-smoke/1508

http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-diseases-and-pests-a-summary/1570

Thanks Rodderick! I have been reading some and already learning a lot!! I am beginning to understand that it still takes quite a bit of work to take care of bees. But I’m up for it!

Hi Dragonfly
Pete in Jindabyne a few hrs away but maybe swap some stories .

Cheers

@gullieshighlander What a wonderful place to live I love Jindabyne - spent many a summer walking up Kosi - Happy memories!

Oh wow an now where do u live.
I love it here last 12 years been great

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I’m in UK now but when at home I used to go there Christmas/New Year - I still remember getting water form a stream in the morning on Kosi, cracking the ice off and boiling the Trangia and wondering what the “crunchie” bits were. Turned out they were Taddies in the water. Fond memories. We would camp on the lake At Jindi before going up.

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Hello and welcome to Tennessee! I am also in West Tennessee but have purchased property in northern middle Tennessee where I will be keeping my bees. I have not started yet as I am awaiting on my full flow to arrive in December. I plan on getting started in the Spring.

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@jenni_piper

Welcome to Flow Hive Forum Jenni - Would love to see pictures of you building your Hives.

Thanks for the welcome Valli,
I’m from sunny Monbulk Victoria Aus. And have wanted bees for a long time, today I am starting off building my hive.

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Hey!
My husband and I were very fortunate to be able to buy a 1/3 acre of land right in our city! Giving us ample room to have an apiary! One of dreams was to bee keep for the honey! When we found flow hive we talked about it for weeks. Finally one night on a quick whim we bought it. We are hoping in the next few years to jar (can) the honey and gift it to our family and friends along with sliced pears from our pear trees. We are very excited!

Is anyone local beekeeper to Edmonton Alberta, we are looking for educational assistance :slight_smile:

Hello!
Just joined, sorry, don’t know how to make a new post:(

Thrilled to see your new invention. Have always wanted to hive bees, but we travel a lot, through countries in or post disaster. Pretty much last 20 years. Now settling parts of the family in Edinburgh Scotland. So, a few questions if I may:

  • I am currently in the far North of Lebanon, helping put together a proposal for ecological restoration of really denuded landscapes. lots of nice ecological landscapes, water harvesting lakes, etc. planned. And wanted to go for bees too! Then I saw your video and I thought: why not just get them started right away on this bee-friendly way?
  • Would you be able to support this project, in principle, assuming it receives funding (we’re applying to the EU).
  • Do you ship all the way to the UK? And could i set up one of these hives with zero bee experience, in my small backyard garden?

All the best,
Magnus

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@magnus_wolfe_murray

There are bee projects in the UK which support African countries and setting up bee hives - they mainly use TBH (Top Bar Hives) but these can be converted to use Flow Frames.

Have you thought of crowd funding to get the cash together to buy some Flows - I’m sure if you get some starter cash, you’d be able to negotiate a good deal??

This is the cause my local group raise money for http://beesabroad.org.uk/

@magnus_wolfe_murray

http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/arab_countries.htm

http://www.fedapimed.com/pdf/Nadine%20Chemali_The%20Honey%20Value%20Chain%20%20Approach.pdf

http://www.thebeehives.net/#!faq/cq1b

https://www.tbnetwork.org/projects/agriculture-sectors/

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/content/plan-bee/about-the-project

Hope these help??

Many thanks, really useful links!