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Echoing what others have said, but the very best thing you can do is to find you a local bee club and get involved. Our bee club has a club apiary that we do work days in every weekend during the season, that is invaluable for beginners. One neat tool I have used is...

That's pretty much where we are at now, we got 15 acres from a field that has been farmed for a long time and now we are trying to make something of it. I keep honey bees so i encourage dandelions and random wild flowers as well. 👍 I've been taking soil samples and got some suggestions as far...

Sometimes I tend to over-analyze things to the point where I never actually get started, lol. That makes a lot of sense, much harder to build a barn if you have to worry about the animals escaping while you drive the tractor around. No snow to speak of here, I planted both a warm and a cold...

I like that, I'm not wanting to start out with too many and get overwhelmed, in beekeeping I always tell people that you start with a couple of hives and then you double each year. That way your management practices can grow with your apiary, if you go from 2 hives to 50 hives that is a whole...

Good point on being able to navigate things with the tractor. I'm now thinking that I'll run temporary netting until i know more about how things work on my land (like Alaskan suggested). How far will they walk for shade? will they walk 500 ft from the forage to get to the barn? I like that...

Wow, so many good answers from a lot of people, i'll try to answer them as best i can. That's a good point, and after making the post I did some more research and moving the water seems like a better idea for the pasture even if it adds a little work for me. Did you continue to rotate them...

Good day, I'm brand new to this forum so I hope this is the appropriate sub forum to post this in since it has to do with sheep. We are located in Eastern North Carolina and our goal is to get Katahdins this Spring with the goal of doing market lambs once we are established. We have been doing...