{"id":52,"date":"2021-04-05T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T08:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-06-05T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:55:42","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/spring-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2020 was a rough year for everyone. Covid-19 changed our lives in many different ways. The daily commute to work was replaced by working at home &#8211; being somewhat isolated. Not having to commute an hour each way to work was really a blessing &#8211; but the extra time saved didn&#8217;t seem to add up to give me more time to do things I want to do. As of December 31, 2020 I have officially retired! Now I have all the time in the world to become a full time beekeeper and ensure the bees are properly taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>I neglected the bees last year. I made the mistake of assuming they have plenty of stores for the winter. Since I didn&#8217;t take any honey I &#8220;assumed&#8221; they would have plenty to last the winter. I was wrong. It was a devastating year.<\/p>\n<p>I started the winter with 10 hives. I ended up with two surviving the winter. 8 didn&#8217;t make it. Not because of mites, or any other reason &#8211; other than not having enough food to keep them alive. I went through each hive and found a large number of bees that had simply died from not having food to keep them going. A careless mistake of not taking the time to ensure they had sufficient food supplies to last the winter. A mistake I will never make again.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day yesterday cleaning up all the hives. I painted each one and got them ready for new bees. I will be heading down to Georgia to Fat Bee Man&#8217;s to pick up some of his high quality, calm, manageable bees. I have to build my apiary back up and move forward.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image0-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ZuniBee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 was a rough year for everyone. Covid-19 changed our lives in many different ways. The daily commute to work was replaced by working at home &#8211; being somewhat isolated. Not having to commute an hour each way to work was really a blessing &#8211; but the extra time saved didn&#8217;t seem to add up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zunibeefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}