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Welcome to the hive!
The Wild Bee Apiary began with a hollow cottonwood tree trunk which my husband cut into sections and my children decorated. These adorable houses were the size of a five-gallon bucket with a top and bottom board carefully decorated with painted flowers, hot-glued beads, and sparkles to attract either fairies or squirrels to the 30-acre wood surrounding our mid-Michigan home.
After chaining nearly 10 of these things to the trees (we didn’t want to hurt the trees by using nails) we set out food and after several years, forgot about them. No squirrels or fairies! One day however, the house near the driveway was all abuzz, we at first thought it had been taken over by wasp as every small opening on our house and barn had wasp move in. We left the “wasps” alone figuring that winter would kill them and we would take down the squirrel houses now that the kids were teens. The bees had different plans. Within a few months there were so many bees going in and out of the fairy house that visitors were afraid to park in our driveway. We had to do something about this.
I told my friend at work about the issues I was having with bees in my driveway, and she offered the services of a new beekeeper, her husband. Ren came out to the house, suited up, and stood in the bucket of our tractor as we lifted him up about 10 ft into the air – yea, our insurance company would have had a fit. Anyway, he unhooked the chain and carefully lowered the hive into the bucket of the tractor. Little did we know, this hive weighed nearly 100 lbs.
