Thus far in January, Planet Drum has made significant progress on a new project: beekeeping.
At the beginning of the month, Ricardo and Clay visited our friend Miguel Angel (proprietor of La Colmena in Portoviejo) to discuss apiculture. Miguel Angel has been bee-keeping for years and appears interested in sharing his knowledge with anyone willing to listen. While there, he showed us how he was populating a new bee box with a queen bee from an established bee colony. We observed intently as he moved the queen from one box to another. Thanks for the lesson, Miguel!
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Shortly thereafter, the second batch of bee boxes were completed and Ricardo and Clay picked them up from Calceta. Ricardo and Clay now have 8 bee boxes total (with 2 levels each for the hive and production) that will soon be ready for housing bees!
Photos by Clay Plager-Unger.
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