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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bron" data-source="post: 13457" data-attributes="member: 59">No idea, they were, and we hear from our farmers when they get hit up by other beekeepers about sites or when the neighbours get beehives. We’ve never paid for sites, other than with the liquid gold, last year we harvested 0. There’s a lotta scrub round here ya know, but most of it is distant & inaccessible in winter or after cyclones, so most move them back handier to home and pour syrup into them.Last year with the accessibility problems it would have been extremely difficult to have kept a “commercial single“ alive. We had doubles with 3 full boxes on in December that by the time we finally got to them in April some had almost starved. The roads, the bridges, farm tracks, slips, carnage.As stationary beekeepers (no pollination anymore) we just get on with the job working to the bees timetables. We keep to ourselves and have limited interaction with the beekeepers around us, we got a small group of longtime beekeeper friends and a few acquaintances but our business is none of theirs and vice versa.I’ve got enough drama in my life without needing anyone elses.</blockquote>

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