Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You choose the location near the road.
This is the real-life decision made by beekeeper Kenn Tuckey. "The better decision is to put it close to the road so you'll always be able to drive in to it," he says.
The reason you want easy access is to spare yourself a lot of hard work. In the spring, after you put your hives down, it might turn wet and you'll have to carry all your empty supers in. A super is a box enclosing the honey frames, where the bees put their honey.
"They only weigh about 20 pounds or so, but if there's 30 hives in there, and each one of them needs three supers, that's a lot of walking," Tuckey says.
If the ground is still wet when you go to retrieve the honey, you're in for even more work. "If it stays wet, you've got to carry that all back," Tuckey says. "It could be full of honey, weighing 75 pounds apiece, and that's one heck of a lot of work."