Each Texas Roadhouse goes through two thousand pounds of honey annually and this becomes a big problem when bee populations have been declining. (WLKY: Texas Roadhouse sets up local hives to help bee crisis)
When you're running out of honeybees, you have two choices and the first one is to move the Texas Roadhouse restaurants to Greece where there are many honeybees ... but we're not aware of a strong demand for cowboy hats and pulled pork.
(Ed: they might like that stuff!)
Sure they might but the key is right now they don't so this solution may not be the best pick.
Greeks do eat a lot of octopus (seriously) so imagine that with barbecue sauce and served up at Texas Roadhouse, huh!
(Ed: Texas Roadhouse came up with a much better solution than moving to Greece!)
Indeed they did, mate.
At each Texas Roadhouse, they are installing beehives and will harvest the honey they need from those. Right now they are testing to discover how it works but that's their long plan.
When you get the hive, apparently it comes with a queen and workers and requires very little maintenance. These bees won't interact with commercial bees for some reason so there is little chance of colony collapse disorder. We strongly advise some serious research before trying it but doing it does seem possible.
References but these are not endorsements, only starting points for your research:
Amazon: eight-frame beehive starter kit for about $229 (sans bees). Quite a bit of information.
BuildABeehive.com has multiple beehive kits (sans bees)
World of Beekeeping tells of how to get bees into the hive (i.e. buy them and they advise taking a swarm may not be such a good idea)
B Weaver Apiaries offers a number of options for purchasing bees along with a fully-stocked hive for $825.
Maybe you're thinking, wow, man ... the beehive colony has at least ten thousand bees and that's a whole lot more stingers than you need in your life.
But there's another way to approach this and maybe you remember seeing lots of clover when you were a kid. One thing all kids know is don't walk in the clover barefoot or you will probably get stung by a bee.
(Ed: I didn't know and I got stung!)
Yah, me too (larfs).
That's the trouble with those kinds of rules: you usually don't hear about them ... until you step on a bee and your foot swells up like a giant purple cabbage!
Then you hear, well, didn't you know better than to walk in the clover barefoot??
Well, man, actually I didn't and I guess you didn't either (larfs).
You can set up kids of the future who do not know about walking in the clover by planting some red clover because, you know it already, bees love it. Probably planting milkweed won't save the Monarch butterfly and definitely keep trying because it's not over yet but, sadly, it doesn't look too good. With bees, there really is a chance and clover is easy.
Most lawn motomaniacs want to buzz cut the lawn before it's long enough for the clover to flower. If you won't convert the lawn to something more environmentally-positive, at least let it grow out longer to give the clover a chance and so the bees and ...
and ...
all we are saying ... is give peace a chance!
(Ed: Lennon didn't sing about bees)
Well, he would have. Yah, he would have.
You can make yourself a bee saint and become a god to Winnie the Pooh without even breaking a sweat because it only means chucking out red clover seeds wherever you can. You don't have to do anything after that, you only need to deliver them, and they can take it the rest of the way.
Lotho brought this over to me as previously I had thought of raising bees as something only wizards can do but it doesn't seem such an impossible thing now. The thousand-dollar startup may be hefty for you and it sure is for me so that means for me to find some red clover seeds and do that instead.
When you're running out of honeybees, you have two choices and the first one is to move the Texas Roadhouse restaurants to Greece where there are many honeybees ... but we're not aware of a strong demand for cowboy hats and pulled pork.
(Ed: they might like that stuff!)
Sure they might but the key is right now they don't so this solution may not be the best pick.
Greeks do eat a lot of octopus (seriously) so imagine that with barbecue sauce and served up at Texas Roadhouse, huh!
(Ed: Texas Roadhouse came up with a much better solution than moving to Greece!)
Indeed they did, mate.
At each Texas Roadhouse, they are installing beehives and will harvest the honey they need from those. Right now they are testing to discover how it works but that's their long plan.
When you get the hive, apparently it comes with a queen and workers and requires very little maintenance. These bees won't interact with commercial bees for some reason so there is little chance of colony collapse disorder. We strongly advise some serious research before trying it but doing it does seem possible.
References but these are not endorsements, only starting points for your research:
Amazon: eight-frame beehive starter kit for about $229 (sans bees). Quite a bit of information.
BuildABeehive.com has multiple beehive kits (sans bees)
World of Beekeeping tells of how to get bees into the hive (i.e. buy them and they advise taking a swarm may not be such a good idea)
B Weaver Apiaries offers a number of options for purchasing bees along with a fully-stocked hive for $825.
Maybe you're thinking, wow, man ... the beehive colony has at least ten thousand bees and that's a whole lot more stingers than you need in your life.
But there's another way to approach this and maybe you remember seeing lots of clover when you were a kid. One thing all kids know is don't walk in the clover barefoot or you will probably get stung by a bee.
(Ed: I didn't know and I got stung!)
Yah, me too (larfs).
That's the trouble with those kinds of rules: you usually don't hear about them ... until you step on a bee and your foot swells up like a giant purple cabbage!
Then you hear, well, didn't you know better than to walk in the clover barefoot??
Well, man, actually I didn't and I guess you didn't either (larfs).
You can set up kids of the future who do not know about walking in the clover by planting some red clover because, you know it already, bees love it. Probably planting milkweed won't save the Monarch butterfly and definitely keep trying because it's not over yet but, sadly, it doesn't look too good. With bees, there really is a chance and clover is easy.
Most lawn motomaniacs want to buzz cut the lawn before it's long enough for the clover to flower. If you won't convert the lawn to something more environmentally-positive, at least let it grow out longer to give the clover a chance and so the bees and ...
and ...
all we are saying ... is give peace a chance!
(Ed: Lennon didn't sing about bees)
Well, he would have. Yah, he would have.
You can make yourself a bee saint and become a god to Winnie the Pooh without even breaking a sweat because it only means chucking out red clover seeds wherever you can. You don't have to do anything after that, you only need to deliver them, and they can take it the rest of the way.
Lotho brought this over to me as previously I had thought of raising bees as something only wizards can do but it doesn't seem such an impossible thing now. The thousand-dollar startup may be hefty for you and it sure is for me so that means for me to find some red clover seeds and do that instead.
2 comments:
You can start a hive for about $300. Go locally for everything but the queen.
Plant the clover first unless you leave near cows(those fields are usually clover).
You can harvest your own honey which reduces your allergies also
KARMA
You can see I got a huge bang out of the information and there's not a serious way to do it here but I'll still tell Yevette as it is meaningful to her.
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