The Most Epic Beginner Beekeeping Workshop Ever - 628DirtRooster
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This was the most epic beginner beekeeping workshop I've ever seen or been a part of so if you've seen a beginner beekeeping class more epic than this one then I apologize for proclaiming this one the most epic. LOL
This event was a hit and was really fun. The weather turned bad the night before and I think something like 30 or 40 people either couldn't make it due to flooding or didn't make the drive because it was forecast to storm all that day. As soon as the class was over the rain came but it held out for the entire event.
This was held at Bauer Honey's location in Mississippi. They are one of the largest honey producers in the world. There were about 15 professional or seasoned hobby beekeepers there to teach and offer assistance with every aspect of the class from beekeeping basics to grafting and queen rearing. This was a beekeeping 101 on steroids. Through the video you'll get to see bits and pieces of most of the workshop. I wasn't able to be everywhere so if you want to see the rest you'll have to come to the next one and build your nucs. I think a little over 100 nuc hives left the yard with students that day.
I think we are going to do this workshop again in spring of 2017. If so I'll make a video announcement of it again.
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Looks like a fun class. Nothing like an intense hands-on class. I'm sure everyone learned a lot!
Throwing them in the deep end like the old timers taught kids to swim. lol
I am watching you with my 3 year old grand child..... he listens to you... "bees wont sting unless you mess with them" lol love it (this quote from another program)
Great editing and mastering. Beautiful to see all those people sharing the same passion.
It was a really good day.
I dont know what it is about bees, but I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!! Keep the videos coming dirt rooster. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks Kellie
Nice quick little video before heading to radiation. Was good to see so many people sharing the passion for beekeeping:) 😃
Hoping for the best for you as you're being treated. Bee well Laura :)
Bees are so important to our lives. I hope we all can figure out how to bring them back. Thank you for your videos.
Thanks for watching Rob
I can't get over the amount of bee equipment there.
They had a few boxes didn't they?!
dirt rooster your a great dude!i suffer from depression and anxiety.. to the point were i cant do much...you have motivated me to do more. thanks alot!!
Glad to be a help. Have a great week end.
Echoing everyone's comments: "Looks like it was a lot of fun!" And no doubt educational.
Yes sir! Thanks
The nucs were really well stocked. Great vid' thanx, LP
Thanks for watching Larry
WOW!!! look at all those boxes!!
Shame some of them didn't have your name on them.
I'm 2:30 into this video and it's already...WOW!
It gets even better. lol
Very nice! I really liked seeing the group together with the bees buzzing around and landing on so many suits. Very hands on!
I think everyone had a good time.
Been going through and watching your videos over the last couple days in my time off. It's fascinating. I love just how gentle you are with the bees. Thank you for all of these lovely, funny, instructional videos.
Thank you for the views Kay.
Whoa! That is one monster swarm!
Looks like a lot of love. I hope to start a beginner hive next winter. I have got a lot to learn about beekeeping in the desert.
I love the desert. Good luck with them.
I need a workshop like THAT! Amazing!
Good stuff.
This would be a slice of heaven to participate in this, even if I am a topbar hive guy.
I think there were a couple of top bar guys there.
Had a good laugh when you called the short woman a child. As another small lady, it happens a lot. haha. This looks like such a great hobby to have. One day, when I own my own place and move out of the city, I want to be the Bee Lady. Watching your channel and really peeked an interest in me. So, thank you very much!
Haha With the bright boots and purse I thought she was a teenager. She was probably in her late 50s. I'm going to have to show some urban beekeeping. Bees can thrive in the city too.
Awesome 👍
Thank you soooooo much fun and learning with you
I want to learn as much as I can about farming honey bees! It appears that Ive found the right people!
Thanks for checking us out.
Looks like a helluva workshop to have! :)
That's a fact.
when the guy was talking about the honey here in North Dakota, he is not kidding. today all of our locations were full of honey.
Awesome!
I love watching your videos ever since I saw you on Doug and Stacy's Off the Grid channel intro! Every day I watch several of the videos and am still amazed and learning! Thanks for this service to everyone! You bee cool! 😁
I loved the cutoff head picture you thru in there real quick. You are a trip! Another great vid!
Haha! I wondered if anyone would comment on that.
That looked like fun, I'm sure they must have something like that up here. thanks for sharing..
It was a good time. You should see if you can find one. Or just come down here next year.
Now that is somewhere I would love to bee
Nice video, I haven't seen such rapid action before - all very businesslike and smiles everywhere.
Thanks for watching Arthur. It was a good time.
Are you in Portugal?
Yes, and unfortunately English speaking beekeepers are very rare in the Algarve but I keep looking.
Arthur Giles Beautiful place to retire to.
Arthur Gile
looks like fun. I bet those new folks were a little intimidated with all those loose bees.
Some were but they settled in pretty quickly.
bet that was an awesome experience- i think id be weighing folks as they come in and when they go out- bee smugleing-lol- thanks for the share
Ha! Empty your pockets please...
Man, great workshop. Thanks for posting.
Thanks James
This is so awesome!!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching. It takes your time too.
I really enjoy your videos. I'm thinking about becoming a bee keeper, thank you for taking the time to make thease videos. I really appreciate it.
Thank you for taking your time to watch. Good luck
this is just so wholesome I love it
Thanks J
Well that event will get you over the fear of bees
Awe wish I could have been there!!! I’m fixin to drive down there to make the next one lol
We skipped 2018 but may do it again in 2019. If you can make it you would love it.
Favorite so far
Excellent! Thank you for sharing this Randy, looks like everyone enjoyed. We get bees shipped to the farm to work the Alfalfa fields, love the time bees are about like that. They venture all the way up to the house, we had a swarm move into a shed under it last year. Unfortunately I don't have hives and couldn't get to the bees and they died over winter. I was sooo bummed about that. But maybe one of these times, I'll be able to wrangle a swarm when we move up there in 2 yrs. Uncle is running the farm and we're going to retire there. =) Looking forward to that very much.
🌾 Green Blessings 🌿
Awesome that y'all have them brought in. I plan on doing a video at some pint about alternative hives in case you don't have Langstroth equipment.
Oo That'd be dang cool, if you could do that! I'd love it. =) And yeah...we have em hauled in, but I'd much rather have my own. You know?
I do have 10 thousand Fireweed seeds that I totally plan on planting when I get a chance. See, I want to make Fireweed Jelly, which is the absolute most beautiful Pink jelly. Supposedly it's very tasty and the bees *love* fireweed from what I've learned. Very much wanting to get into bees, just can't afford all the gear right now. And I hate seeing them die like that one swarm did. =(
🌾 Green Blessings 🌿
Sansa Stark Must be pretty good. I Googled "fireweed" and fireweed honey was the second ranking search term.
Yep, I want to set up my bees right smack dab in the fireweed flowers, for the honey and jelly. =D I've spent so much dang time researching Bees. Now I just have to get set-up! Haha!
Sansa Star
Guard bee! That was too funny. I've been needing a couple hive boxes, frames, and nucs and I think I found the place to wonder around! Wow that was alot or frame material and boxes in that building! Great video as always!!!!!
It took a tree or two to build all that. Ha!
Great video,thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching Brian
Awesome!
Looked like fun....Well I have watched so many of your videos and you having fun that I finally built 3 hives and it looks like I am going to have to drive 300 miles this late in the year to get 3 Nucs. But I cant hardly wait.
Awesome! You'll love it.
This makes me wanna give it a try!!! but you make it look easier than it is!!!
Aw it's not that hard. :)
628DirtRooster Sure pal. haha
Wish I could have been there looks like a good time
Wish you could too. There'll likely be more.
Very nice video. Cool travel from here.
Thanks for watching Richard.
thanks for viedos like this when i am able to i will be starting my own hives after one or more classes
Excellent!
This looks so fun :)
Very!
That looks amazing!
It was pretty neat. Good turn out.
great video!!
This looks like my kind of place. Wish I was there.
You would certainly have enjoyed it.
You fellas should have a Bee church haha. Cool community and a funny vid!
I know one person around here that just might pray to a bee god.
Is the bee god where all Queens come from? Like a stork into the brood xD
Jake Pineo If so they've been working with UPS.
628DirtRooster Jeff Horchoff really does *love* his bees!
My HOA would be all over me if I started keeping bees lol And I'm only in year 5 of a 30 year mortgage so it'll be awhile before I could do something like this, but Id def love attending a class like this.
Typing out "Year 5 of a 30 year mortgage" makes reality sit in that Ive got a long way to go lol
Just build a hive in the wall of your shed and call it an infestation. Not much the HOA can say to you about an infestation.
Maybe that’s not a kid. Might just be a short woman. 😂😂 love the channel, love the sense of humor! Thanks for sharing
The question you have yet to answer is...child or small woman?
So great to see a good turn out and I marveled at all the brave souls sounding themselves with so many bees!
Ha! She was a small woman.
cool WOW big warehouse. You are the KING BEE! he hee I always enjoy your videos idk if i can see them all but i try too cheers bud
I wish it was my warehouse. Maybe one day.
Well done, lads! I like those inner covers, too.
They are pretty slick. I got a couple.
628DirtRooster I might have to make one, just for shits and giggles.
Pop's Shack Use laminated glass if you can find a scrap.
Looked like a great day
No doubt.
I love these videos
good video like to see the big bee yards
They are a sight.
Awesome video there mate. If that was here in Australia? No one would leave without a BBQ and a Beer first lol. Great video .
Paul Windle
I have to say; I envy you. I think it would be awesome to go to that.
I wish everyone had access to a workshop like this.
Now that was cool. more more
haha Thanks Kathy
The bees sure seem to react differently towards all those beginners, lol! Like they don't trust 'em as much.. Another good vid!
All they saw was and army of stormtroppers headed their way. ;)
"Well that might not be a kid, might just be a short woman" funniest thing ever. Not to pick on you of course, I wouldn't tell the difference, it's just a funny line.
Turns out it was a short older lady. lol
Y’all need to do another but remember I’m riding from St. Louis lol
hopefully some day i may be able.come over there. and learn from you.
You will certainly be welcome.
i love whatching you videos...
very entertaining, keep em up. 😁
Thanks man. Trying to keep it rolling.
+628DirtRooster I just finished a beekeeping course, I say I've learned more from you than from the course. thank you for all the videos I really love your channel.
Mohd Aradi You're too kind. Thanks for being a faithful viewer.
great video wish their was that kind of thing happening over here
We are blessed to have this practically in our back yards.
Very cool!
Thanks Jason
628DirtRooster Do you do any Facebook? If so hit me up, Jason Johnson, same profile pic. I promise I won't blow up your feed with political crap!! Just an occasional funny one!!
HardWayFarms I barely get on there.
Aw Man, you didn't say there would be doughnuts! ;-) I noticed how all the hives are white...and the bee suits are white...get where this is going! LOL! "Maybe she'll back up to it and mark herself" LOL! Looks like an awesome turn out, congrats!
Only thing that could whiten it up any more would have been milk to go with the donuts and some caucasian bees. lol
looks like you hadda fun time.
I know I did. :))
Great video! Wish I had went, looked like a really good experience. I couldn't undearstand, how could there be so many snowmen yet there wasn't any snow on the ground, and they were walking around also?
You can't be at these things when you're busy walking through the swamp looking for hive boxes.
Oh yea, I forgot. Still, I wish I could have been there instead. Next time.
Impressive...
1:09 -- I believe that would be Jeff Horchoff of Louisiana.
He worked like a beaver doing cut-outs in order to get new colonies.
That pic at 16:14 was great haha you should made some "guard bee" hats or t shirts
Wish I knew about this!
Might do it again this year.
someday I would like to come down and visit your neck of the woods!
Plenty to see and do down here.
Francisco is pretty rough on the bees, I get why, and what he does but damn! He's like the Honey Bee-Micheal Vick!
Michael Vasquez
Man the Wax Moths are about to take me down !
Not good. Numbers must be down. You feeding?
the weak hive i am ! ya think i should feed all of them ?
***** Right now I would be.
will do then thanks
After trying to be so gentle with my girls, it looked so strange to see the pros throwing frames in a box, and chopping at the burr comb like Washington at the cherry tree! :-)
LOL Hang with them for a while and you'll learn a whole new way.
Im new to beekeeping and have watched all of your videos and they have helped me quite a bit. I was wondering if you can tell me when there might be another class or if there is a site to look up the info for future classes.
Probably March or April of 2017. If there is another one I'll do a video announcement for it.
Another cool video. Wow there was a lot of bee equipment. Do you think it is good on the bees to move them around like they do? I know that is a way to produce more honey. But do you think the bees are better off?
I don't think they know the difference as long as they are getting fed. The ones that get lost when the boxes are moved might not like it though. lol
Their primary use is for crop pollination. The honey is just a something that has to be dealt with. I just turns out to be a good problem to have.
1:45 dem lats poppin thru the shirt tho
Ha! Old guys still lift.
Great video 628, thanks. I tell you what, if the first time I'm in an apiary, and I've got about 600 bees on me, like that one fella, you better take me to the nearest racetrack, with a pocketful of cash, cause I'm gonna win the win, place, and show all by myself!! Lol!!
Haa! Good luck follows him.
Hey, where I can find those display-glass top bar for the hive?
We've got them on our web site. 628-dirt-rooster.myshopify.com/collections/all
There must have BEEn a lot of bee puns at the workshop
Bunch of clowning by a select few. Myself included. :)
I hear ya about being busy. Blasted sow got out again last night, spend half the day working on getting her back in. My bees are probably going to fire me it's been so long since I inspected them.
They might throw you a welcome back party.
That ole hog is gonna need to learn her place some day. :)
Wish I would of knew about this haha
Yeah man. There'll be more.
Nice video. I was going to ask where the lab (dog)was but saw it for a couple seconds. Loves to play ball.
+Joseph Rawls he was sneaking donuts when no one was looking.
looks like caos. do the bees really return to their original hives? or of they do get lost will they be accepted to a different hive. love your videos.
When they get lost they are on their own. They are pretty good about returning to their boxes. Some times they can join other colonies but usually don't.
Wish that was closer
Did you notice the loose queen in the fridge
sorry for my ignorance. .. how do you have all those Queens w/o hives?
Grafting
Lol 11:51 maybe she'll back up and mark herself
We can always hope. ;)
idk if i missed it... but where is this place location? and how often do that too this type of class?
This was our first. We'll probably do it again in spring of 2017. If we do I'll put up a video announcing it. It's in Poplarville, MS.
That was totally respectable! I've run a Linux group here...we have significantly less people. :> But it's a similar kind of outing.
Good for you!
Thanks Brian. Where are y'all?
628DirtRooster Southern Indiana, now...for 6 years I used to live in Huntsville, AL. Big'un.
:>
Brian Fahrlander Nice area up there.
628DirtRooster Yeah, I was thinking about keeping some bees...but I'm not actually strong enough to DO it, medically. It takes a great constitution to be able to stay up with them, rattle around those boxes...
I lost my kidney several years ago due to cancer. I'm like the walking dead...able to move around (kinda) but not able to DO anything. I'm just hanging around hoping for a transplant.
Buy I like watching what you do!
Brian Fahrlander Keep your head up dude. You'll be out there working your bees in no time. :)
I'm praying for you.