Comments for Urban Beekeeping in Austin, Texas

Comment on About by shalene

shalene — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:45:37 +0000

Sorry, I meant Karl! Thanks!

Comment on About by shalene

shalene — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:44:05 +0000

Hi Mark,
I’m a biologist at UT working on raising some bumble bees — and I’m looking for a fresh pollen source to feed them. Do you have any of this available from your colonies or do you know who in Austin might have enough to spare/sell?

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by Tina

Tina — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:57 +0000

Thanks!!

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:11:53 +0000

Sure thing Tina. Let me know if you have additional questions.

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by Tina

Tina — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:21:53 +0000

Hi Karl,
I write a general gardening blog here in Austin and am in the process of getting prepared to have a hive or two. (you kindly answered a question for me a couple of months ago.) Do you mind if I mention you in my next post?

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by Brad Castro

Brad Castro — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:47:46 +0000

Glad to see the priorities are changing – even those of us who aren’t real comfortable with bees flying all around us understand how crucial they are.

I’d be happy to add a Bee Removal resource page on my site under the Services section. And if someone with more bee expertise than I have wanted to guest write the page, that would be even better.

You can reach me via my contact form (and sorry – that page hasn’t been converted to the new design yet) @ http://www.real-austin-texas.com/contact.html

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:54:47 +0000

That’s an excellent idea Chantal. I may “steal” a bunch of content from that report a swarm page if you don’t mind, and add a page to my blog listing local Austin beekeepers who will come and pick up swarms or do removals.

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by Hem

Hem — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:41:21 +0000

You can also call City of Austin to be added to the list to call, if interested.

Comment on Austin City Ordinance Meeting by Mistress Beek

Mistress Beek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:08:42 +0000

Congrats and nice work. Indeed, though the change seems small, I think it’s a HUGE shift in perspective, as you suggest.

I wonder if you can’t hijack (meaning “out-SEO”) the existing sites that come up first for searches on “Austin Bees” and post your own list of people who are willing to remove rather than kill swarms or feral hives. Perhaps a page like this: http://abqbeeks.ning.com/page/report-a-swarm

These are the folks who are coming up on top right now and it would be nice of a neighborhood-based bee-friendly page came up instead:

http://austinbees.com/
http://austinbeeremoval.com/
http://www.beeremovalspecialist.com/bee-removal/austin.html

Comment on Buyer Beware by karcuri13

karcuri13 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:09:11 +0000

There are several stands at the various Farmer's Markets that have honey for sell including Round Rock Honey which is a locally owned company that has very high standards for their honey. You can also try posting on the Austin Urban Beekeeping Discussion Board to see if anyone is selling their honey. However the drought was tough on everyone this year and most folks probably didn't get much honey for themselves much less an excess they would want to sell.