April 28/10 - A Year in a Sustainable Garden: The Bees Have Arrived! Preparing To Hive A Bee Hive

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At long last the bees have arrived from New Zealand! After a two day intensive course at the local apiarist it is time for me to put the theory into practice as I prepare my two hives located on our edible green roof.

With the help of my husband we created this video to give you the fundamentals and insider tips on preparing your hives for some 20,000 residents. In our next video we welcome our newcomers with a cermonious 'dump' into their new box!

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[sengalindsay]

4) I ordered through a bee supplier in Vancouver and it is no problem - New Zealand bees are mellow, clean from diseases - although queens have been superceded or I kept the swarm queen last year and they are super hardy now and prolific

5) Edible green roof is growing veggies and edibles on a roof tap - my catch phrase for that

Thanks for watching

Cheers

Senga

[sengalindsay]

Hi There:

Thanks for watching and the answers are as follows

1) Yes it was reinforced (see my youtube video on edible green roof with Senga

2) We are in a sheltered forest and roof is one story up but I weight down with bricks just in case but never a problem

3) Vancouver gets little snow , lots of rain so keeping them drained (they are slightly slanted) and dry is the bigger challenge

see next post for remaining answers

[poohbear1647]

I love your idea of putting your hive on the roof. I have a few questions if you don't mind:

1. did you have to reenforce your roof?

2. How did you ancore them down (so a strong wind doesn't blow them off the roof)

3. Aren't you worried about the hive being buried in snow? Will you have to get on your roof and shovel out your bees in the winter?

4. How did you get New Zeland bees? I want them but I thought you couldn't bring them into the US or Canada?

5. what is an edible green roof?