Discussion: Beekeeping in Your Forest

"I'm considering whether to try and keep honeybees on my pine plantation. Given that I'll be planting the logging decks from the just completed thinning, I was thinking I might put a couple hives at the back edge of one of the logging decks.

This wouldn't be a commercial venture, just hobby scale . . . 2 or 3 hives.

Have any of you ever known anyone to try this, or have any advice?" - Thorus3

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Honey Bees - Getty Photo/Don Farrall