How much #beekeeping and #beekeeper Mastodon is there? As a first year newbie, I imagine there is a point where I will get enough discussion about how one can organize a Langstroth hive. It will take a lot to get there, though.

Got my stuff over the weekend, 2 nucs of bees in ~second week of April or whenever they choose to be ready. This week I'm buying cinder blocks, white silage tarp at the rec of my mentor (because the ground in my yard is very friendly to small hive beetles.)

I had to get over my analysis paralysis. There are so many ways to set up a hive so I just had to pick one.

@geniodiabolico I know of at least two? @ai6yr and @piiabartos
@SRLevine @geniodiabolico @ai6yr My beekeeping is a bit different due to the Finnish climate and long winters, but feel free to ask. For the small hive beetle I can't help because we don't have those. Maybe because of the winter.