Why is this in the Guides forum? If a moderator sees this, perhaps the thread could move to General Discussion?
@Magically Clueless @Odin
If you put the beehives on Ginger Island, plant a Fairy Rose or two and let the bees do their thing, forever.
For what it's worth, my tapping was one of each fairly early on. I expanded the oak tapping up to nine during the keg build-up. Could have used more, maybe, but I'd have needed to start buying ore from Clint to keep up. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but I'm a very lazy farmer.
Once I was happy with my keg supply, I moved three tappers to maple trees, having learned of the Ginger Island trick from imnvs's Amethyst farm over in the Showcases subforum.
Since then I've taken down a few more oak tappers and put them in storage, because I just don't want to deal with them anymore. (See: lazy farmer, above).
I've seen several people suggest tapping trees outside the farm. One can of course do that, but I'm not sure why one would bother. Maybe that's a method for highly motivated, energetic farmers who actually use most or all of the space on their farm? I think over 80% of my farm is covered in trees, so of course I'm just going to keep my tappers close to home.