{"id":430,"date":"2011-12-30T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-12-30T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T14:57:52","slug":"the-bees-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/the-bees-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bees are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is early, but Adam at <a title=\"bees\" href=\"http:\/\/azapiaries.com\/\">AZapiaries.com<\/a> has posted the spring schedule for bees. The bees delivery, stopping by the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, is always the earliest date so I can expect to get my 5 packages of bees on or about April 8, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The bees never arrive on time due to weather. There has to be a month of good weather in Georgia for the Wilbanks Apiary to grow enough bees to make the packages. They are often two or three weeks late.<\/p>\n<p>The price did not go up. It&#8217;s $95 a package plus tax. That should be about $500, plus I ordered 3 queens so I could make splits. This will be just shy of $600. Beekeeping is expensive. If I don&#8217;t make any money this year it will be my last year.<\/p>\n<p>Over the winter I will be studying up on Queen Rearing, and I will make various NUC boxes and queen castles out of plywood when the weather permits. I can sell queens for about $35 each and I hope to be able to sell a dozen or so every month. Selling queens makes more money than selling honey ($500 a month), I&#8217;ve heard. Queen rearing is an arcane science and I am trying to learn its secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is early, but Adam at AZapiaries.com has posted the spring schedule for bees. The bees delivery, stopping by the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, is always the earliest date so I can expect to get my 5 packages of bees on or about April 8, 2012. The bees never arrive on time due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}