Beekeeping journal

Yet another blog. Hopefully, I'll continue to write in it.

My intention for this blog is to document the progress of my personal beekeeping experiences and the slow expansion of my new apiary. The more I learn, the more I'm expecting that my experience will be different than everyone else's to some degree. Luckily, Pittsburgh has a wide support network for craft apiarists.

I am completely new to beekeeping. So far, I read Storey's Guide To Keeping Honeybees by Richard E. Bonney and Malcom T. Sanford, I attended a local, 9-hour beekeeping class hosted by BurghBees, and I recently secured a some apiary space on the top of an industrial building in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh. For the non-native, Lawrenceville is an up-and-coming (10 years running) neighborhood in The Big Smoke. It's home to Allegheny Arsenal and Allegheny Cemetery, where they buried all the workers that died in the famous Arsenal explosion of 1862.

Please comment and criticize my methods. I generally like to do things my way and/or against the grain, so I may not listen. However, if you argue your point well, I'm a sucker for sound logic, and will likely take your suggestion.