To Schawee....... Got 3 hives at the moment, planning to expand it to 15 next spring, at this time, it is monsoon here so bees have a lot of things to forage from, in spring we have apricots, apples, kasmir maple and much much more from which bees can forage, actually the whole landscape is a garden (i think it happens everywhere ;-) ). I have a problem at the moment which i'll be posting in the main forum so i could get a lot of different opinions, hope u'll read it too.