My 6 year old son shocked me a couple of weeks ago by telling me that he would like to learn beekeeping. The weirdest thing is that he didn't know that I was a beekeeper in the Peace Corps many years ago (more than I care to admit ). So I've been teaching him about bees and different aspects of beekeeping, thinking he would lose interest, but so far he is still gung-ho. Everyday he begs me to take him to the lumber yard to buy what we need to build our hive. I'm really excited to get my hands back into a hive, and super excited to be sharing that with my son. In Paraguay we used top bar hives, which is what I would like to start out with. I consider myself a "beginner" beekeeper, since I only did it for 2 years, over 10 years ago. I would like for us to also learn how to keep bees in a Langstroth as well, but one step at a time. I'm heading over to the top bar thread to ask some questions....
Looking forward to talking to you all!
~struggling every day to do God's will~