Only question is how many colonies can area support when dearth hits? Been making bee equipment, 5 frame nuc's, Lang deep hive bodies, 4" shim feeders, Lang deep frames, Lang med. frames, hive stands, swarm trap lures, & finally finish that solar wax melter. Only using repurposed woods & materials but hardware needed from home stores & have to buy premanufactured Lang frames.
Hope to make storage shed from thrown out pallets but that project is slow in going. Seen many plans/ideas here:
Keeping busy learning/ doing to be more sustainable & helping likeminded local folks to build/ keep up in their endeavors toward the same.