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Doug! I just found your channel and I love it! I love how thorough you are and all the real-time examples you use. I do not have bees, as I do not yet have a home. But one of the very first things I want to do is keep a few hives. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos.
thanks for the warning. lol. hubbie found a forgotten nest and brought home combs, but idk what to do so im looking. he was already in that mindset, cant stop him now. friend clearing g the nest for a couple said, yes will provide. so, now we are looking at all that is needed. meanwhile I have honey combs. thats why I'm here.
I'm doing my first harvest today (here in Umbria, Italy) and have been reading and watching videos in preparation - yours has been the most helpful, thank you. Nice, clear close-up shots and yours is the first explanation I have seen of the best way to use the capping scratcher. Thanks for taking the trouble to make this video to help new beekeepers.
I'm not a beekeeper and have zero desire to become a beekeeper, but I love watching videos like this. It's honestly relaxing for me to watch someone harvest honey. There's no technology involved here, it's good old fashioned farm work. I'm a lefty too, by the way.
This was so relaxing and thorough in explaining the process. I don't even have an interest to harvest my own honey but love watching people extract them for some reason?! 😅😅😅
I'm only 13 now but I want to have honeybees when I buy a house. Lavender honey is the best in my opinion, and I've been learning a lot about bees. Like how you can't take honey from bumblebees because they only make enough to last them through the winter.
Lexana thanks so much for commenting on my video. I'm so glad you would like to become a beekeeper. We can always use more of those. Keep learning about the world and the bees.
I have used honey for more than 30 years but I really never watch the video on how they take the honey out of the honeycomb and this is amazing what's more amazing fact I made this little creatures which best thing but reproduce the best honey ever thank you God and thank you farmer awesome
"The smell is amazing" Yes!! I have yet to make my first harvest, but when I was checking my hive recently, the aroma was absolutely intoxicating even from several feet away! There is nothing like the smell of fresh honey in the air!
Hey Doug. Former NW Hoosier here. We were in LaPorte and now Florida. We're planning on moving back north soon. And planning on 10-20 acres with animals and BEES and need to learn how. Great Video.
Thank you for sharing this video my kids were interested in learning how the honey they just put on their waffles made it to the bottle. They enjoyed the video thoroughly!
I know I’m a year late, but this video just came up in my recommendation. Even if I don’t have bees, I’d love to collect honey and watching people do it is amazing! Thanks for the video!
I appreciate this. I am about to rob my bees for the first time (2 year old hive). My neighbor came in summer to help me inspect and he said there was probably 50 pounds of honey then. I’ve just been nervous but it has to be done. I hate to ask people for help, I’m weird about help, so this really helps!!
Thank you for the wonderful video. I love watching honey extraction process, there’s something so relaxing about it... especially when it’s done so well and gently like how you do it! Great explanation of what’s going on too. I love learning new things.
Allah (God) says in the Noble Quran about bees theses Quranic verses: ( And your Lord inspired the bees, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect, Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think)
NICE VERSE , BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND ONE WAY TO THE FATHER AND THAT'S THROUGH🙏JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR🙏 I UNDERSTAND YOU FOLLOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE BUT IT HAS BEEN FULFILLED AND THE MESSIAH HAS COME AS PROPHESIED IN YOUR QURAN AND THE BIBLE , MOHAMMED CLEARLY TOOK SOME THINGS FROM THE BIBLE AND MADE HIS OWN BOOK ,BY YOUR OWN FOLLOWERS JESUS APPEARED TO THEM AND HAS SHOWED MOHAMMED IN HELL THIS FOR A REASON SO YOU MAY MAKE IT TO ETERNAL LIFE. THERE ARE NO VIRGINS WAITING FOR YOU ! JESUS IS LORD! 😇🙌🙌🙌
I have become addicted to bee keeping videos the last couple weeks. If you told me as a teenager that at 39 you will spend hours of your week watching other people do a hobby you do not do, im pretty sure my head would have exploded from disappointment
Where are you in NW Indiana? I just moved from there to SW Virginia in 2022 and I think it's time to harvest my honey for the first time. I got my bees in early June of 2023. Thanks for the tutorial!
Your explanation and demonstration appear very helpful, I have bee hives on my farm that were given me. I didn't ever put bees in them but I have "inherited" a colony this year in those hives and I didn't know how to harvest the honey.
Thank you for such a detailed delightful explanation of “from the field to the jar” extraction.. I feel far more ready as a “first timer” after watching you!
Just would like to suggest to you to put a screw in your peice of wood that you rest your frames on when decapping. The point to the screw will keep your frames from sliding around. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Just like to say thank you, for such a thoughtful and very educational video I hope to bring a bee hive to my new home when I move as I'll always have "bee friendly" flowers all year round, if they produce honey its practily useless to me but there wax would be a delight
I’ve been considering setting up my first hives, thinking starting small, maybe 2 or 3 hives, but I’m really unsure of how to attain honey bees in the first place. I know you can buy queens, and I’ve seen videos where people catch swarms and put them into new hives, but how would someone even go about finding a swarm in the first place ? Seems like it would be the luck of the draw so to speak. Either way I find bee keeping and honey harvesting really intriguing.
I'm watching this at 2:30 am and starting to get tired. When he started spinning the frames, the music started, which in my sleepy mind reminded me of a jack in the box. My next thought was, "I hope nothing jumps out of there." 😂
Hello Doug, great video, I had wild bees on my chain link fence, and had a bee guy put them in a box, here in San Diego, eventually he came and stole the bees. Now I'm setting up to do my own thing, I bought a Langstrom bee box. The bee keeper and his boxes were just hollow frames, he used rubber bands to hold the comb when he removed it from the fence. While harvesting he just cut the comb out of the frames, letting it drop into the 5 gallon bucket. The box I bought on line, has black plastic sheets placed in the grooves encapsulated by the wood frames, so this is where I got confused on how I will harvest the honey? I couldn't exactly see if your frames had the black plastic, I believe so as to the spin out method. I'm wondering if I should keep some of the plastic out of my frames or all, so I can harvest as I had witnessed? Your way seems alot cleaner, so the honeycomb is not harvested, only the caps. I don't have the new box set up yet but working on it now, I will have a good year or more once bees move in to do the harvest. If I can't attract bees just to move in, I will try a hive Rescue as I saw my beekeeper remove the hive off my chain link fence. If anyone has suggestions my number is 760-896-1876 I like to learn more so will definitely watch more videos.
Don't miss out on the FREE Buyer's Guide of Beekeeping Equipment. This guide will save you lots of time when trying to find your beekeeping tools. Click Here --
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How much honey did you get from how many trays?
Doug! I just found your channel and I love it! I love how thorough you are and all the real-time examples you use. I do not have bees, as I do not yet have a home. But one of the very first things I want to do is keep a few hives. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos.
I love the camera close
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Hi, i'm from Dominican republic,and i would like to know if This month( december)is good for the harvest
This video is as important now (6yrs later) as it was the day it was posted. Good *free* tutorials are always needed
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. That was believe it or not my very first video on TH-cam.
You know you’ve watched to many videos about honeycomb when it’s being recommended to you on the daily....I’m not complaining tho
That's too funny! Thanks for watching!
Its mezmirizing
thanks for the warning. lol.
hubbie found a forgotten nest and brought home combs, but idk what to do so im looking. he was already in that mindset, cant stop him now. friend clearing g the nest for a couple said, yes will provide. so, now we are looking at all that is needed. meanwhile I have honey combs. thats why I'm here.
Sounds like you should start bee husbandry.
I'm doing my first harvest today (here in Umbria, Italy) and have been reading and watching videos in preparation - yours has been the most helpful, thank you. Nice, clear close-up shots and yours is the first explanation I have seen of the best way to use the capping scratcher. Thanks for taking the trouble to make this video to help new beekeepers.
Susan thanks so much for the kind words. I'm glad this video helped you. I enjoy beekeeping and hope to share my knowledge. Good luck on your harvest!
I’m going to be in Umbria in April! If u are selling your honey, I’d love to know details. Thx!
My 9-year old son likes your wonderful video very much.
Now i see why my uncle likes beekeeping so much
The honey extractor spinny thingy looks like fun
That uncapping is so satisfying!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not a beekeeper and have zero desire to become a beekeeper, but I love watching videos like this. It's honestly relaxing for me to watch someone harvest honey. There's no technology involved here, it's good old fashioned farm work. I'm a lefty too, by the way.
Who else just loveeesss these videos
Hello Hannah, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
This was so relaxing and thorough in explaining the process. I don't even have an interest to harvest my own honey but love watching people extract them for some reason?! 😅😅😅
Thanks so much for the compliments. I'm so glad you found it interesting.
Same lol
@@DougtheBeeGuy you now got me interested in getting a hive for myself and harvest the honey for myself and also make presents to others :D thank you!
Idk why, u just seem like a cute humble man 😀
cHOICE that will promote A.C.E. iKONIC EGGSTERING true
The sights and sounds took me back to my uncle's sticky honey house. I hadn't thought about that smell in years. Well done sir.
Bee harvesting is the only thing that makes me satisfied.
Thanks so much for watching.
Hello Lissy, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I'm only 13 now but I want to have honeybees when I buy a house. Lavender honey is the best in my opinion, and I've been learning a lot about bees. Like how you can't take honey from bumblebees because they only make enough to last them through the winter.
Lexana thanks so much for commenting on my video. I'm so glad you would like to become a beekeeper. We can always use more of those. Keep learning about the world and the bees.
This is the most satisfying honey extraction video i watched
I can’t wait to get out of my apartment so I can have a bee hive . I’d love to make honey
My girls and I are studying honeybees this week and this was such an enjoyable video. We absolutely loved it!
Just picked up my first hives for our farm and can't wait to teach the kids about it.
Hello Susan, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I'm waiting for the day I get my own property and house and am able to get bees. Love your videos. Extremely satisfying watching you do this.
I have used honey for more than 30 years but I really never watch the video on how they take the honey out of the honeycomb and this is amazing what's more amazing fact I made this little creatures which best thing but reproduce the best honey ever thank you God and thank you farmer awesome
Thank you for explaining this. I love nature and natural things. I plan to use honey in my homemade, cold process soaps.
I have got to get into this. I thought about it most of my life. Time to get on it.
Straight forward explanation, simple and concise. Thank you too for showing us how to use the scratcher.
"The smell is amazing" Yes!! I have yet to make my first harvest, but when I was checking my hive recently, the aroma was absolutely intoxicating even from several feet away! There is nothing like the smell of fresh honey in the air!
Hey Doug. Former NW Hoosier here. We were in LaPorte and now Florida. We're planning on moving back north soon. And planning on 10-20 acres with animals and BEES and need to learn how. Great Video.
Thank you for sharing this video my kids were interested in learning how the honey they just put on their waffles made it to the bottle. They enjoyed the video thoroughly!
This is the same reason we watched this video. My kiddos asked how they get honey.
Thank you for this content. My 3 yr old and I appreciated the lesson. I had never seen that before.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent step-by-step instructions. Thank you!
Dominick thanks so much for the great compliment! I'm so glad you got some value from my video.
I know I’m a year late, but this video just came up in my recommendation. Even if I don’t have bees, I’d love to collect honey and watching people do it is amazing! Thanks for the video!
I appreciate this. I am about to rob my bees for the first time (2 year old hive). My neighbor came in summer to help me inspect and he said there was probably 50 pounds of honey then. I’ve just been nervous but it has to be done. I hate to ask people for help, I’m weird about help, so this really helps!!
Thanks Doug - really appreciate you taking us along and sharing some expertise!
Thank you for the wonderful video.
I love watching honey extraction process, there’s something so relaxing about it... especially when it’s done so well and gently like how you do it!
Great explanation of what’s going on too. I love learning new things.
Edd thanks so much for the compliment and watching the video. I too love to learn new things. Thanks for watching!
Allah (God) says in the Noble Quran about bees theses Quranic verses: ( And your Lord inspired the bees, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect, Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think)
NICE VERSE , BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND ONE WAY TO THE FATHER AND THAT'S THROUGH🙏JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR🙏
I UNDERSTAND YOU FOLLOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE BUT IT HAS BEEN FULFILLED AND THE MESSIAH HAS COME AS PROPHESIED IN YOUR QURAN AND THE BIBLE , MOHAMMED CLEARLY TOOK SOME THINGS FROM THE BIBLE AND MADE HIS OWN BOOK ,BY YOUR OWN FOLLOWERS JESUS APPEARED TO THEM AND HAS SHOWED MOHAMMED IN HELL THIS FOR A REASON SO YOU MAY MAKE IT TO ETERNAL LIFE. THERE ARE NO VIRGINS WAITING FOR YOU !
JESUS IS LORD! 😇🙌🙌🙌
The way it should be done without doubt. Beautiful Presentation.
Thanks, very good video. I eat lots of honey and now will know how it is extracted. Wild flowers and buckwheat honeys are my favorites!
Thanks so much Sebastien! I'm glad you learned about honey processing.
got asmr tingles when he was removing the cappings of the combs
I will be starting my first hive this year and your video was so informational and very relaxing!!
Thank you!!
Thanks so much for the great compliment. I hope you have great success with your new endeavor.
Thank you for sharing how the honey we all love is made.
I like how your channel is called “Doug the bee guy” XD
Very informative. Thanks 🙏
Thanks so much for watching. I'm glad you could gain some knowledge from my video!
I am amazed by this. I never had any idea how this was done. So cool.
Thanks so much for watching. I'm glad you learned how honey is harvested.
You are the best harvest Doug
My nephew he is 10 years old and he is doing bees! He is a pro now!
Watching you scratch the caps was so satisfying for some reason lol.
Ide love to have this job. Great work 👍
What a beautiful job you made of that. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much Nexus!
Thank you for blessing us with this video! Very informative! 😁
Thanks so much Olivia. I'm so greatful that you enjoyed learning about honey.
Uncapping is oddly satisfying
I have become addicted to bee keeping videos the last couple weeks. If you told me as a teenager that at 39 you will spend hours of your week watching other people do a hobby you do not do, im pretty sure my head would have exploded from disappointment
I don't know why I enjoy this. I may be getting old :(
Nah it's just very cool to watch how things are done!
Thank you. I'm getting ready to harvest honey and you show how to properly uncap the frames and other methods.
Wonderful!
I would love to have a grandpa like him
Thank you very much for the great compliment.
These videos are very informative... From kenya🇰🇪
That was so satisfying to watch!
Hello Joan, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Hello friends! I am also starting beekeeping in Nepal. I saw your video it is really amazing. Thank you!!
This is so satisfying! Thanks for sharing
This was so satisfying to watch
Thanks for explaining the decapping comb. I would've messed up with it!
Doug, I would love to volunteer my time to help you with your harvest and jaring. I just love watching these videos and you skill is amazing!
I never thought watching honey being Harvested would be so entertaining 😂
It's amazing hope to start same project soon thanks for all the effort you have made in teaching people who are green
All the best
Where are you in NW Indiana? I just moved from there to SW Virginia in 2022 and I think it's time to harvest my honey for the first time. I got my bees in early June of 2023. Thanks for the tutorial!
Wow, thank you I won’t take for granted when I buy my next jar of honey!
Your explanation and demonstration appear very helpful, I have bee hives on my farm that were given me. I didn't ever put bees in them but I have "inherited" a colony this year in those hives and I didn't know how to harvest the honey.
He’s so wholesome I love him
3 years, 250K views and not a single dislike. what a W.
Thank you for such a detailed delightful explanation of “from the field to the jar” extraction..
I feel far more ready as a “first timer” after watching you!
Hello Laura, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I'll add this to the list of things I wanna try but probably won't ever do lol.
Clearly you should definitely give it a try. Thanks so much for watching!
Thank s a lot for Sharing Doug!
You have been a great aid in helping me understand how to keep bees and process honey. Thank again
Just would like to suggest to you to put a screw in your peice of wood that you rest your frames on when decapping. The point to the screw will keep your frames from sliding around. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks ! Excellent video editing. Im very excited to crack open my hive for the first time next week.
Hello Jenny, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Hi,thanks for your video, it is good, we are manufacturer of bee equipment and bee products from China for 15 years
Thanks for watching!
The crap I ended up with I have to work on constantly, no time for Chinese junk, like crap that came. Out of Japan I the 70’s and 80’s
Just like to say thank you, for such a thoughtful and very educational video I hope to bring a bee hive to my new home when I move as I'll always have "bee friendly" flowers all year round, if they produce honey its practily useless to me but there wax would be a delight
Hello Shane, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
wondering how long you keep the honey in the bucket to strain? some say a few days to get air bubbles etc out. what do you do?
This video was soo satisfying to watch. I’m loving your videos I’ve learned so much from you, thank you!!
Lovely video, Doug! I find your beekeeping videos really relaxing
16:53 Most satisfying
Hello Jackie, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Imma start my own beekeeping journey today..
Beautiful honey 😍
So satisfying and relaxing watching your videos. Thanks for taking the time to make them
do the bees get upset when you shake them off? we don’t have full bee suits and are wondering if we’d get stung after shaking them off like you do
you're the man Doug!
thank you for this wonderfull vid out of everybee keeper you're number1!
Wow, thank you!
Do larva live in the same comb as the honey?
I’ve been considering setting up my first hives, thinking starting small, maybe 2 or 3 hives, but I’m really unsure of how to attain honey bees in the first place.
I know you can buy queens, and I’ve seen videos where people catch swarms and put them into new hives, but how would someone even go about finding a swarm in the first place ? Seems like it would be the luck of the draw so to speak.
Either way I find bee keeping and honey harvesting really intriguing.
That hive looks huge!
how regularly do you harvest the honey?
Excellent video, I’m just starting on my journey of bee keeping I really enjoy your videos
Thanx Doug for the video. My OCD would compel me to use the honey scratcher!!! LOL
Hello Christina, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Thanks Doug!
Thanks so much Jamieson. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I'm watching this at 2:30 am and starting to get tired. When he started spinning the frames, the music started, which in my sleepy mind reminded me of a jack in the box. My next thought was, "I hope nothing jumps out of there." 😂
Doug you're awesome!
I learned from watching. I wonder however how and when you clean the extractor drum? I am just a beginner beekeeper from Canada.
Hello Sylvie, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
These vids teach so much in a short time great work
Seeing what you guys have to go through I now understand why supermarkets have this stuff for nearly $10 -15 a bottle good stuff
So satisfying!
Hello Doug, great video, I had wild bees on my chain link fence, and had a bee guy put them in a box, here in San Diego, eventually he came and stole the bees.
Now I'm setting up to do my own thing, I bought a Langstrom bee box. The bee keeper and his boxes were just hollow frames, he used rubber bands to hold the comb when he removed it from the fence. While harvesting he just cut the comb out of the frames, letting it drop into the 5 gallon bucket.
The box I bought on line, has black plastic sheets placed in the grooves encapsulated by the wood frames, so this is where I got confused on how I will harvest the honey?
I couldn't exactly see if your frames had the black plastic, I believe so as to the spin out method.
I'm wondering if I should keep some of the plastic out of my frames or all, so I can harvest as I had witnessed? Your way seems alot cleaner, so the honeycomb is not harvested, only the caps.
I don't have the new box set up yet but working on it now, I will have a good year or more once bees move in to do the harvest. If I can't attract bees just to move in, I will try a hive Rescue as I saw my beekeeper remove the hive off my chain link fence.
If anyone has suggestions my number is 760-896-1876 I like to learn more so will definitely watch more videos.
You rock Doug!
This is a fantastic video for someone like me who is trying to get into the business! Thank you so much!
Something i've always wondered about. THANKS
Love this. Thank you Doug
Very welcome