That beginning, LOL. . Such a wonderful day when you can harvest. I really need to do like you did here, get a mason jar and save the Propolis. Good stuff Kaylee & crew.
Anyone interested in maybe getting into bee keeping it truely is a rewarding hobby , it is hard work getting your honey but interacting with bees and looking after them is part of the journey and learn and keep learning we never know everything about bees they teach us something all the time .
I built a 30”x 30” platform stand to hold my 6 frame radial down . I don’t have any rockn and walkn . I also let the extractor run at a medium slow speed for fifteen minutes at first . I’ll be uncapping while the extractor runs . After 75% of the honey has extracted then I turn up the rpms a tad bit higher but low enough to keep from destroying the comb . I need to get outside to see if my bees did a miracle harvest for me . Our honey will be darker this year due to the bad weather we had and the last source of nectar was coming in . I also believe the darker honey has more antioxidants in it . Love y’all!
Such an interesting vlog and nice to see your mum and dad with you. We also golden rod in the UK and I have some in my garden. I would love to keep bees but it's not practical for me but I have learnt so much through watching you. Thank you .
I’m thinking of going with mostly Hoss waxed honey harvesting as well as a custom flow type system mostly but its fun to watch others harvesting more “normally”.
When removing frames for whatever reason if I don’t want to also move bees I prefer to put a one way exit…a day or so ahead and remove the frame(s) after they have exited. I run from bees beecause every bees life matters to me…if a 🐝 is trying to sting I have not accounted for something that needs to bee addressed…less handling=less dead 🐝’s.
Here's a cool trick about cutting the grass... Wait till campaigns are over and then---bam, swoop in and grab EVERY single 4'x8' coroplast sign you can find + the excellent T-posts that come with them! Place the coroplast signs below the hives. This makes cutting grass so much easier! No weedeater, just the mower! The bees will appreciate the gesture as well! You have the NICEST little garden there! It's beautiful!
@@TheHoneystead if it were possible to only harvest enough for my own personal use it would be so much easier. Especially with the heat and humidity last couple weeks. Almost tempted to rob just before sunrise.
I see you all have tea and dad does all the work. Lol. Love your videos. Learning a lot as a first year bee keeper in PA these are great learning tools. Keep up the good work and keep getting your hands dirty and taping it
Try a heat gun on the wax to open the cells. You'll never go back! Want free food grade buckets??? Go to a bakery and ask them to save them for you. I get WAY more than I need (I give them away at the bee meetings). Now, I'll just give them to my brother to hoard at his little airport. Why not...=D Donut shops also have free food grade buckets. Personally, I prefer the 2 gallon ones as they're just not so heavy!
The warmer the honey the quicker it flows. That being said I spin my honey in a non-air conditioned room. I'm jealous! I want a radial extractor (only for deep frames). I was the only one to get stung too! Oh wait I'm the only one extracting honey here. I harvested 5-6 gallons of honey and 3 frames of cut comb this past weekend.
Great harvest! I am just a backyard beekeeper. But I have a few supers to extract. I do a honeybee program and extract at a local nature center. Lot's of fun! I am a honeybee ambassador! 🥰🐝
Great video Kaylee. I got about 200 lbs of honey from my 3 hives. Two are flow hives which I harvested twice and the other one is conventional which I got four medium honey super from. It was a great year for this backyard beekeeper.
Brings back memories. Yum! Nothing better than fresh extracted honey (especially if I got some Black Locust honey). My daughter would always be there when the honey came out of the extractor with a spoon. I miss those days. Enjoy them. You mentioned food grade buckets. Good point. Another tip is to sanitize them with bleach and rinse well before using them. Sanitizing the jars is also a good idea. (Be sure they dry before using them!) You can always bake the jars in a 220 degree oven for 20 minutes to make it easier. When not sanitized, the jars could have wild yeasts that could cause fermentation. I once made partially fermented honey (not purposefully). While it tasted great, I learned the lesson of sanitized jars. I now make wine and beer and sanitize everything so wild bacteria and yeast cannot ruin my batches.
You should do a short video on the stand you made for your honey extractor, I need to build something like you have for my extractor to keep it from wobbling across the kitchen floor lol
Pretty! Harvest time here as well. We've gone from 5 hives at the start of the year to 12 now, had to buy more hives and especially supers, because we ran out! Honestly had to swap full supers and spin off to recycle them, simply didn't have the numbers to put more than 1 on each hive! But yeah, few more good days expected here, so hopefully spinning off again as well. We've a handspun tangental extractor, I try to stay away from electrical as much as possible...... 🌼🌼🌼
Lovely , bee keeping kept ancient Egypt alive long enough to build the pyramids of Gaza: *before the World Health Organization aka stock market hoards* ;and is a vital key in human existance - great content & thank you for sharing your experience s 🇺🇸
We dont use queen excluders either. It tends to damage the honey bees wings going back and forth. They beat themselves up enough just gathering for the hive, they dont need the additional strain of rubbing their wings going thru the excluder.
Psalm 19:9-10 KJV 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Proverbs 8:13 KJV The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
I'm from Cornwall in the UK and this is my first year beekeeping. I won't be taking honey from my hives this year as I want to get them big and strong and get through the winter. Love your videos and great to learn from! All the best from Cornwall!
hey Patsy, my first year beekeeping in Cornwall too..in fact I wasnt intending to take any honey as I want the bees more for pollination.. but they made a lot of honey and have taken a super off to harvest.. leaving them 2 full supers! I really dont want to be feeding them sugar so I think this should see them though the winter. Good luck with your new hobby .
@@gillthomas8378 Im at a place called burncoose nurseries. I am the head gardener so I have a hive in the gardens on the estate and a hive that was a swarm that I caught. Both colonies have a super on but undecided wether to leave them on for the winter or take off. So much advice out there!
Awesome job great crew .. color of that honey about perfect.. I'm in the same place about feeding.. prices of sugar keep going up cost me small Fortune over 200 colony's plus I just don't wanta feed like that.. so we did alot honey June and July going to bust them down get them tight for mite treatment and leave the goldenrod honey this year at least.. I really like goldenrod personally so I'll take little personal for my ice cream.. hopefully get little better spring weather 2023
It was so funny I had to replay it several times when the bee woke up from its nap and startled you. I laugh out loud so many times. Enjoyed watching the process of harvesting the honey was nice to see you testing for moisture content was pretty interesting. BTW how are the elderberry trees and the build coming along? Will you put any of your elderberry on sale? I live in Missouri City Texas and would like to grow a few in my backyard. You make it look so easy. Thank you for sharing. Edward
Have ya ever used a hot uncapping knife it won't tear up your combs as much. i bought an electric uncapping knife back in the early 1980's and i'm still using it
WOW! Do yall allow for visits? I'm nearby and am looking for local groups to see what beekeeping is all about. Do you know if there's a Shenandoah valley bee keeping club?
So do you reduce the hive down to one super for the winter or do your bees go through winter with more than box on. Our harvest in Canada will be beginning of sept.
2 questions. 1) do you put the incomplete frame in its original box for the girls to finish working or start with an empty 2) moisture content...your goal is 18%...less moisture is better?
Seeing parents working with their grown children is all too rare now a days. You have awesome parents.
I love how the whole family participated in the harvest.
yes she looks like bumble bee too because of her eyes
Oh my gosh that capped honey is just too beautiful! Your girls sure do love you 🌻
It’s so beautiful
Oh Goodness!!! Look at that 🍯 flow!!! What a wonderful video!!! Thanks for sharing. 🐝💛
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Fantastic honey. Congratulations to you and the parents. Thanks for the video 🥰
Thank you Teo :)
That beginning, LOL. . Such a wonderful day when you can harvest. I really need to do like you did here, get a mason jar and save the Propolis. Good stuff Kaylee & crew.
Lol that little bee scared me.
You guys rock. That's a big harvest. I wish I got into beekeeping sooner .
Anyone interested in maybe getting into bee keeping it truely is a rewarding hobby , it is hard work getting your honey but interacting with bees and looking after them is part of the journey and learn and keep learning we never know everything about bees they teach us something all the time .
I need to buy more honey as soon as possible. I LOVE this honey so much. This year I am ordering several bottles if I get to order in time!
You all worked very hard on this harvest and collection, well done.
really enjoyed the honey harvest and all the work that goes into it. have a great day and week
so pumped I found this channel, Thank You.
Beatiful Mother Beautiful Daughter
Lovely work, so much fun with lots of honey and team spirit
God bless you all forever
I absolutely LOVE honey bees and raw honey 😇
Tis a beautiful thing on the Honeystead.
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Always enjoy your videos. Wonderful bee roll. Nice harvest.
NOBODY IS GOING ANYWHERE til the grass is mowed !!!!!
Nice harvest, hope mine goes well this year
I love watching your videos!! I love honeybees, they are so cute!!
It’s fascinating how you guys harvest the honey, very cool!! 👍🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for this! Now I’ve got to make some biscuits so I can enjoy some of the honey I harvested a few months ago.😜😉
Mmmmmm biscuits and honey 🤤
I built a 30”x 30” platform stand to hold my 6 frame radial down . I don’t have any rockn and walkn . I also let the extractor run at a medium slow speed for fifteen minutes at first . I’ll be uncapping while the extractor runs . After 75% of the honey has extracted then I turn up the rpms a tad bit higher but low enough to keep from destroying the comb . I need to get outside to see if my bees did a miracle harvest for me . Our honey will be darker this year due to the bad weather we had and the last source of nectar was coming in . I also believe the darker honey has more antioxidants in it . Love y’all!
The darker the honey the better 🙌🙌🙌
awesome harvest. Congrats!
Thank you!
🐝🍯🌹 y'all bee's having fun together 😁🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝🐝
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Harvest day is always a good day, and a family event LOL,
Such an interesting vlog and nice to see your mum and dad with you. We also golden rod in the UK and I have some in my garden. I would love to keep bees but it's not practical for me but I have learnt so much through watching you. Thank you .
Contact your local association to gain experience and help others with theirs. It's a very interesting and absorbing hobby.
Bravo....greetings from Bosnia....
.29 gals per frame. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Man I didn't realize how ripped how were. Damn. Big up woman .
Those honey supers are heavy lol
That's beautiful and I love watching this. I'm still try to catch a swarm.
I’m thinking of going with mostly Hoss waxed honey harvesting as well as a custom flow type system mostly but its fun to watch others harvesting more “normally”.
When removing frames for whatever reason if I don’t want to also move bees I prefer to put a one way exit…a day or so ahead and remove the frame(s) after they have exited.
I run from bees beecause every bees life matters to me…if a 🐝 is trying to sting I have not accounted for something that needs to bee addressed…less handling=less dead 🐝’s.
You do such a wonderful thing with your bees. thank you.
I leave a lot of honey as well...If the bees don't use, I will harvest in the spring.😎
Nice video 👍👍👍
We harvested 400 litres or 600 kg of honey these year from 40 bee hives. It is 2 times less tnan in 2021.
Have you shared a recipe for the plantain salve? Video? Blog?
I love these videos, so happy you share them.
So fascinating
Here's a cool trick about cutting the grass...
Wait till campaigns are over and then---bam, swoop in and grab EVERY single 4'x8' coroplast sign you can find + the excellent T-posts that come with them!
Place the coroplast signs below the hives.
This makes cutting grass so much easier!
No weedeater, just the mower!
The bees will appreciate the gesture as well!
You have the NICEST little garden there! It's beautiful!
I need to rob my honey 🍯 this week as well. Enjoy your calm peaceful channel.
I’m actually not the biggest fan of honey harvest day, but this has been one of the calmest harvests we have ever had!
@@TheHoneystead if it were possible to only harvest enough for my own personal use it would be so much easier. Especially with the heat and humidity last couple weeks. Almost tempted to rob just before sunrise.
We got rolling pretty early and I’m thankful we were done before the heat really kicked in!
Located in the Western NC mountains near Fontana Lake. Thunder storms almost daily. The bees are kinda bipolar right now.
Great video!! Wow 360#!!!
Awesome Awesome video enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing your amazing honey gathering day. Truely awesome..😊
I love these videos
That bumble scared me, while scaring you!!
super podoba mi się życie pszczelarza, zazdroszczę Ci :)
Love your shows they are great
I see you all have tea and dad does all the work. Lol. Love your videos. Learning a lot as a first year bee keeper in PA these are great learning tools. Keep up the good work and keep getting your hands dirty and taping it
Lol we offered him some tea!
I wish I could buy your honey. It's gotta be "top shelf" judging buy the looks.
Greetings from Poland. Goldenrod begins to bloom in our country in a week time
Great video, greetings from Wisconsin 👍
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Good morning I love what you do wonderful would love to meet you some day
Nice looking honey
❤❤❤ lovely day ♥️
Try a heat gun on the wax to open the cells. You'll never go back!
Want free food grade buckets???
Go to a bakery and ask them to save them for you. I get WAY more than I need (I give them away at the bee meetings).
Now, I'll just give them to my brother to hoard at his little airport. Why not...=D
Donut shops also have free food grade buckets.
Personally, I prefer the 2 gallon ones as they're just not so heavy!
Congratulations to you and your bees :)
The same job awaits me today, I do it with pleasure :)
Wonderful!!!🐝🍯
Awesome
The warmer the honey the quicker it flows. That being said I spin my honey in a non-air conditioned room.
I'm jealous! I want a radial extractor (only for deep frames).
I was the only one to get stung too! Oh wait I'm the only one extracting honey here.
I harvested 5-6 gallons of honey and 3 frames of cut comb this past weekend.
Great video! Love to see it all come together. Really like the b-roll. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! It was too hot to record/talk! I do really like how it came together. Sometimes I have no clue until I sit down to edit!
@@TheHoneystead they always turn out great! You have a great eye for it.
Thank you 💛
Great harvest! I am just a backyard beekeeper. But I have a few supers to extract. I do a honeybee program and extract at a local nature center. Lot's of fun! I am a honeybee ambassador! 🥰🐝
Oh that’s awesome!!
Scared the stripes off the last one. Lol
Great video Kaylee. I got about 200 lbs of honey from my 3 hives. Two are flow hives which I harvested twice and the other one is conventional which I got four medium honey super from. It was a great year for this backyard beekeeper.
Wow congrats!! That's an awesome accomplishment!
Brings back memories. Yum! Nothing better than fresh extracted honey (especially if I got some Black Locust honey). My daughter would always be there when the honey came out of the extractor with a spoon. I miss those days. Enjoy them.
You mentioned food grade buckets. Good point. Another tip is to sanitize them with bleach and rinse well before using them. Sanitizing the jars is also a good idea. (Be sure they dry before using them!) You can always bake the jars in a 220 degree oven for 20 minutes to make it easier. When not sanitized, the jars could have wild yeasts that could cause fermentation. I once made partially fermented honey (not purposefully). While it tasted great, I learned the lesson of sanitized jars. I now make wine and beer and sanitize everything so wild bacteria and yeast cannot ruin my batches.
You should do a short video on the stand you made for your honey extractor, I need to build something like you have for my extractor to keep it from wobbling across the kitchen floor lol
That’s a good idea!
Love to have the recipe for the Salve.
Fun when family works together. Do you make and sell the plantain salve? Didn't see it in your Etsy store.
Pretty! Harvest time here as well. We've gone from 5 hives at the start of the year to 12 now, had to buy more hives and especially supers, because we ran out! Honestly had to swap full supers and spin off to recycle them, simply didn't have the numbers to put more than 1 on each hive! But yeah, few more good days expected here, so hopefully spinning off again as well. We've a handspun tangental extractor, I try to stay away from electrical as much as possible...... 🌼🌼🌼
The best job
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This is nice! Glad I’m doing it right. I’d love to see how you render your wax???
Lovely , bee keeping kept ancient Egypt alive long enough to build the pyramids of Gaza: *before the World Health Organization aka stock market hoards* ;and is a vital key in human existance - great content & thank you for sharing your experience s 🇺🇸
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Everyone here talking about honey but Where is your black jumpsuit from i love it. Haha 😍
Your channel very interesting ✨💚✨💛✨
Thank you! We do a little bit of all type of things here :)
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We dont use queen excluders either. It tends to damage the honey bees wings going back and forth. They beat themselves up enough just gathering for the hive, they dont need the additional strain of rubbing their wings going thru the excluder.
I agree 💛
How do you clean the equipment? It looks like hard work.😊
Hi
Psalm 19:9-10 KJV
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Proverbs 8:13 KJV
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
I'm from Cornwall in the UK and this is my first year beekeeping. I won't be taking honey from my hives this year as I want to get them big and strong and get through the winter. Love your videos and great to learn from! All the best from Cornwall!
Lovely plan! Best of luck with your beekeeping adventures 💛 praying that you have a successful first year!
hey Patsy, my first year beekeeping in Cornwall too..in fact I wasnt intending to take any honey as I want the bees more for pollination.. but they made a lot of honey and have taken a super off to harvest.. leaving them 2 full supers! I really dont want to be feeding them sugar so I think this should see them though the winter. Good luck with your new hobby .
@@gillthomas8378 Whereabouts are you in Cornwall Gill?
@@MrDickydribble Gweek.. and you?
@@gillthomas8378 Im at a place called burncoose nurseries. I am the head gardener so I have a hive in the gardens on the estate and a hive that was a swarm that I caught. Both colonies have a super on but undecided wether to leave them on for the winter or take off. So much advice out there!
Awesome job great crew .. color of that honey about perfect.. I'm in the same place about feeding.. prices of sugar keep going up cost me small Fortune over 200 colony's plus I just don't wanta feed like that.. so we did alot honey June and July going to bust them down get them tight for mite treatment and leave the goldenrod honey this year at least.. I really like goldenrod personally so I'll take little personal for my ice cream.. hopefully get little better spring weather 2023
I want to know more about plantain balm you used on your stings. Love your videos!
they call me honey too LOL
Love your mon
Refractometer for water content tester
Parabéns pelo trabalho.
So interesting! Do you have to do anything special before you put the frames back in the hives? Or do they get clean frames? Thank you!
It was so funny I had to replay it several times when the bee woke up from its nap and startled you.
I laugh out loud so many times.
Enjoyed watching the process of harvesting the honey was nice to see you testing for moisture content was pretty interesting.
BTW how are the elderberry trees and the build coming along?
Will you put any of your elderberry on sale?
I live in Missouri City Texas and would like to grow a few in my backyard.
You make it look so easy.
Thank you for sharing.
Edward
Lol it made us both jump 🤣🤣🤣 so far so good! The elderberry trees are growing well!
@@TheHoneystead good morning my upline mentor
I like and love the way you do your things
Am Gerevasio from uganda Africa
Have ya ever used a hot uncapping knife it won't tear up your combs as much. i bought an electric uncapping knife back in the early 1980's and i'm still using it
I do have one somewhere 🤔 I’m just not the biggest fan lol
WOW! Do yall allow for visits? I'm nearby and am looking for local groups to see what beekeeping is all about. Do you know if there's a Shenandoah valley bee keeping club?
Can you freeze dry honey and then make into a powder?
Pozdrawiam🙂 super robota👍
I noticed you don’t strain your honey. Wonder why not? What do your do with the propolis?
What type of cream did you use after bees sting? I didn’t see any links below. Please let me know. Thank you
So do you reduce the hive down to one super for the winter or do your bees go through winter with more than box on. Our harvest in Canada will be beginning of sept.
What is the name of the bee sting salve & where can we get it?
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Not sure where you’re based in VA but I’d love to buy some honey from you all
I found a bee inside a closed male squash flower I was trying to use to hand pollinate with. Is this common? Is it a concern?
2 questions. 1) do you put the incomplete frame in its original box for the girls to finish working or start with an empty 2) moisture content...your goal is 18%...less moisture is better?
What do you do with the propolis.?