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Summary: Run your own bee hive! Learn good locations to place a bee hive from an expert beekeeper in this free beekeeping tutorial video.
Jorge Gomez has been a professional beekeeper for over 15 years. He currently cares for many bee hives in the Austin area.read more
"Locations for bees have to be- to avoid any risk of bee stings, either for people or animals. So it’s better- what you’re looking for in that regard is a high fence like this one, over there. It can be an artificial fence or a green fence, like a fence of trees, big bushes—with good distance. Good distance means ten, twenty yards- thirty, fifty yards with a fence. Locations also very in what kind of nectar flow you want. So you might have summer locations or winter locations. So, like a summer location would be a good, high altitude location, and a winter location could be a low-altitude location. "
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