I had two people call me today about placing hives on their property. The first lady had only about 8 acres but did have orchards and a cleared area. She is located in Ivy which means only a small commute form my house to her property. I will go out to her property on Monday morning and scout around. It was kind of funny because she asked me what the down side of letting me put hives on her property. Aside from the stings to herself or pets I guess I should have mentioned possible law suits from neighbors. I will bring that up on Monday. No reason to talk about litigation right off the bat.
The second guy I have yet to call but he sounds interested and loves the idea of having bees on his property. Will have to withhold comments until I speak to him further.
Today we went to the Albemarle county fair and saw the bee man. The local bee club set up a large wire cage with a small hive of bees inside. The man stepped inside and talked about honey bees. I always love seeing people around me watch what the bees are doing. We all seem to have a fascination with them especially when they cannot sting the be-jesus out of you. I did roll my eyes when he said honey-bees have been around for thousands of years. Try 35 million years.
Nina and I also ate some fresh donuts made on site by the doughnut man. I was surprised to see him pretty thin. If I had a doughnut machine mounted on my car I would become legendary as the headless horseman to all of the cops in Virginia.
I still need to extract about 80 pounds of honey soon. Will probably use this as diplomatic sweetener with prospective land owners.
