Evan D. · Durham
Beekeeping · Jul 2026
Ruth walked the setback, talked to the neighbor, and put two hives behind the garage. We had a first-year harvest without a single complaint.
Ruth Calder
Durham · 16 years
Backyard hives that stay neighbor-legal.
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Ruth keeps twelve production hives in Orange County and installs starter colonies for Triangle homeowners. She will refuse a lot that is too close to a playground, a pool, or an HOA that bans livestock. Inspections, swarm calls, and mason-bee houses are the rest of the book.
Consults include a one-page habitat score and a plant list keyed to this county.
Starter LangstrothSwarm captureMason-bee houses
Services
Beekeeping
2 hours–1 day · New hives Mar–Jun · inspections year-round
$220–$1,800
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Pollinator gardens
1–2 days · Plant Sep–Nov and Mar–May
$850–$3,200
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Habitat consults
90 minutes · Book 2–3 weeks out, year-round
$150–$300
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Reviews
Nia W. · Chapel Hill
Beekeeping · May 2026
Swarm in the eaves on a Sunday. She had them in a box before noon and left a mason-bee house for next spring.