Two established hives free: Minneapolis, MN

We are camping on a property with honey bees, and have just found that the "bee-keeper" kills the bees when it gets too cold to keep them.
He'll just purchase new hives next spring. I'm horrified by this!
Thought I'd make an effort to find them a good home.
Especially since there's such a shortage of honey bees in the world.

It sounds like he was spending more money on buying toxic gunk. Than it cost to just buy new bee.

Joy Yumi wrote:We are camping on a property with honey bees, and have just found that the "bee-keeper" kills the bees when it gets too cold to keep them.
He'll just purchase new hives next spring. I'm horrified by this!
Thought I'd make an effort to find them a good home.
Especially since there's such a shortage of honey bees in the world.

Can't take them myself - our state has some sort of license requirement I still need to look into - but this one definitely caught my eye. Hopefully someone in the area will be able to help.

He probably isn't going to give his hives away, so I don't know how someone would remove the bees.

One would most likely have to swap out the frames.

As long as you aren't crossing state lines, I think you might be able to keep bees without much worry
https://www.beelab.umn.edu/resources-beekeepers/ordinances

And if you are only keep 3 or so hives, you can probably get away with it, keeping bees. And even if they somehow wrote you up for it, you would just have to pay a $50 fine.  
Even within Boston, MA city limits anyone can keep 2 bee hives with no registration required by the gov.