Spring is here! For many gardeners, this means spraying clouds of herbicides and pesticides that can kill or weaken neighborhood bees. Fancy a cool drink of Round-up, anyone?
Here’s how you can minimize damage to neighborhood bees if you absolutely must spray chemicals in your yard or garden.
Of course, this won’t help with a new kind of garden evil — neonicotinoids — but every little bit helps. Even better, pull weeds instead of spraying and keep everyone healthy, happy, and safe.
mistress beek 
Can you suggest a source for a nucleus hive? I just moved outside of Santa Fe, NM and need to set up a hive.
I have a stand, brood box and a couple of short supers
Any help is appreciated
Bill Saunders
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Hello neighbor,
I just noticed someone posting about nucs on our local beekeeping forum at:
http://abqbeeks.org/forum/topics/local-nucs-for-sale
You might sign up there or post a topic about where to buy a nuc locally and see who responds. The community is very active and several people sell nucs each spring.
Good luck! And welcome to NM.
Everyone morning when I boil water for tea, I boil extra that I then go pour on weeds outside. Works really well for weeds growing in sidewalk cracks or in hardscaping.