Hi All
 
My daughter has worked out a very good solution for bees around kids and or
neighbors.  She has a covered deck on back side of her house in Stone
Mountain Ga.  The back yard is also fenced.  Her husband constructed an 8'
high fence form the corner of the deck to one corner of the house.  He then
covered the ground with roofing  to keep down the grass.  He also screened
that end of the deck.  This requires the bees to fly high enough that they
fly over the kids.  We have had as many as 4 colonies in Langstroth hives
in this area, however I couldn't take good enough care of them since I only
visited once a month or so.  I removed the Lanstroth
hives and installed a Top bar hive using one of the existing colonies.
This has worked out very well due to the low maintenance nature of the TBH.
 My daughter can now manipulate the bees herself and harvest fresh honey
herself. My son-in-law is allergic to stings of any kind. She harvests 1 or
2 bars at a time, shreds the comb and uses a salad spinner to spin out
fresh honey for her table
 
Frank & Phronsie Humphrey
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> From: Richard H. Glassford II <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: bees and kids
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 1997 8:21 PM
>
> Hello,
>
> Maybe some of you could help me.  I have a small orchard and a fairly
> large garden.  I would like to have one bee hive in the back yard but I
> have 5 small children from the ages 4-13 that play in the back yard.
>snip