🐝🐝🐝🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🐝🐝🐝 I LOVE honey so much. As a child, I ate peanut butter and honey sandwiches EVERY DAY for lunch for years even though my mother would have liked me to have a more varied diet, LOL! Such an amazing process by such tiny creatures.
Hi Charles, good to see you've joined us beekeepers. If you want something that's more equivalent to no-dig in the bee world, but not as unaccessible as Bee Kind Hives (which I love), then look up Phil Chandler. He's not so far from you and has been teaching people for years about barefoot beekeeping - basically as natural as you can get, whilst having accessible hives. Smoking the bees doesn't calm them. It's probably akin to putting a fork in your soil, and it's very rarely necessary. And several people mentioned the flow hives - yes they are too good to be true. Blessings from Holland.
Thank you Dominic, I have heard of Phil and shall look him up because I like the sound of what you say. And that is interesting about the smoke, and about the flow hives!
I grew up with hives in my parents small backyard....it was dad's hobby until he became a diabetic. How things hv changed in the equipment used but principals still the same. Dad is now 87 and l will be showing him your video!! They are amazing creatures we would not survive without them ❤
My Irish black bees are so chill I've been able to just stop using any smoke, they're just that calm. Only down side is they are that chill about everything including growing as a hive
Just a little reminder- the worker bees are female, so when the beekeeper says "It'll take forever for him to emerge" he means "She". Gotta fight to get credit in this world when you're female :) Thank you for continuing to teach!
Excellent. Nice harvest of honey. I have my first hive this year. Tiny colony from a swarm to begin with so just building them up this year. Hopefully honey next year.
You definitely need to keep bees of your own to produce saleable honey to go along with your market garden. I have been a beekeeper for over 40 years, and it's one of most rewarding experiences I have had in my life. The bees are just amazing creatures, there is so much to learn about them. I normally operate about 35-40 hives and sell the honey at four stores year round.
I never thought tonise a heat gun to melt the caps! It's out first year harvesting and we tried the knife, and comb but I think I like how the heat gun melts the caps and doesn't appear to damage the comb as much
Very nice Charles. Don't forget to feed and protect with a windbreak if you can. I have kept bees for over two years now. I love the little critters. Keep a tube of tooth paste (as we call it hear) close. The salt in it pulls the venom out when you get stung. A nice old beekeepers trick. And you will get stung. That's what they do.
As the chair of an allotment society I should add that insurance companies have strict rules on keeping bees. Our insurance company charge £50 PA but also a whole lot of hoops for a bee keeper to climb through.
Thanks´ Charles for showing us how to do it. I tried it, though in smaller quantities, a couple of litres, and it worked out fine. I kept the mother of course and used it for some red wine left overs; we´ll see how that will turn out. The apple cider vineagar was easy and useful. Have used my own batch all winter, spring and summer, and now, in July, I´m running out - very soon I need a new harvest of apples! Thanks´again for inspiring us! Greetings from Sweden/Stockholm, 59 N, 18 E.
Hi Charles , a great video. It's also my first year of beekeeping experience and I chasing TH-cam for such content. Will be glad to see more such videos from you. Good luck !
Maravilloso video... no puedo comer miel... pero me encanta la idea de ayudarlas a crecer y tener lugares seguros... son tan importantes y estamos acabando con ellas ... además de flores que les gustan he puesto bebederos para ellas... Gracias como siempre Charles.
In the video i noticed you asked if the frame was heavy; if you're worried about weight maybe a horizontal hive might be better than the ones you have now (where you have to remove the supper) Leo Sharashkin has some information about natural bee keeping and horizontal hives if you're interested.
Lovely, just lovely! As a former commercial beekeeper, I still love honeybees. I no longer am able to have hives due to a back injury preventing me from lifting the supers, but I now have native bee houses to ensure there are plenty of pollinators for the vegetables and fruit trees.
My neighbor growing up had bees, I was fascinated watching him work the hives. Funny tho, I don't remember him ever sharing with us. This was a fun throw back for me. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.!
I never find my queens that fast anymore! My first one, 10 or so years ago, was so big and beautiful l could see her in an instant. Good to see him not using gloves. It may be counter intuitive but it keeps you from being too mean and forceful and they are gentle in return. Keep going. Love the videos.
Love it as a Canadian beekeeper it is interesting on how other places keep bees. The things that are the same and those that are different. We like to say they kick the drones out or they would spend the cold winter eating honey and watching bee sports. Love to just sit and watch the bees come and go. Great way to decompress after the work day.
Nice to see your bee hives ,I kept bees for 5 years working up to 6 hives, I loved keeping them but due to busy life, I had to give them up but I do love watching videos on people working them.
Why was the almond oil put in and heated? To push the bees down farther down into the hive? That may have not been explained fully. Very interesting video!! What lovey bees you have Charles🤩💛😍
ya te echaba de menos😊! tus abejas me recordaron parte de mi infancia , a mi padre le decian el OSO..por que le gustaba sacar la miel de los panales!yo era quien ayudaba cuando era mas joven...lo bonito es que las abejas son muy nobles y trabajadoras,si las tratas con amor te daran el nectar mas dulce que hubieras probado..!haces una hermosa labor compariendo tus videos! he aprendido mucho de ellos, espero en dios poder algun dia poner el invernadero de mis suenos para que los infantes de la escuela puedan disfrutar de la naturaleza mi querido charly
I have four hives on my property. I used to keep them, but each time I got stung the reaction got worse so I have the local beekeeping club care for them now. We split the honey. I definitely get the better of the deal because I also get the fruit of their pollination in my gardens. I still enjoy sitting by the hives and watching the bees come and go. Not sure why, but it’s so very relaxing.
Charles I don’t see you climbing up trees to collect the honey though interesting as it might seem, enough danger at ground level. That was most interesting and a nice drop of honey collected.
Welcome to the family of beekeepers, Charles now you can ask me for advice... I have bees for years.... and I use wooden boxes like yours only in the german DN (Deutsch Normal) format... And I have my way of doing it, as bee friendly as possible (I think), without beeing dangerous (Varoa and other 'pests') for surrounding bee hives... I do take honey from the bees but only if the bees have enough to eat for winter, I avoid feeding sugar as much as possible...
I like how you are always looking for new opportunities on your farm! Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing and I believe that your honey will taste amazing. Cheers! Dusan
I highly recommend a Flow Hive if you are going to only keep a couple hives on your property. Far easier to extract the honey. I have two myself and they are an incredible invention! I enjoy seeing you get involved in new hobbies.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig They were invented by a father and son duo, you would absolutely love it! The results speak for themselves :). Looking forward to the water hole video as well !
Hmmm. Ok There are many ways to manage bees, I leave honey for the bees to last the winter. No excluders for me 😁👍 The learning curve is massive by the way :)
Honey bees are indeed amazing. Good luck with your project but can I put in a plea for all the many species of native bumble bees and solitary bees. They are also excellent pollinators especially for fruit but depend for their survival on wildflowers. Introducing huge numbers of honey bees into an area means there is much more competition for a limited food supply unless you provide a large area of wildflower meadow too.
I love watching these sorts of videos, and I have a friend close by who also has Bees, but sadly I can't go to them, because I'm allergic to them. However, I'm very fortunate to be one of the few to receive some of their hard work. I don't know if you've ever tried doing it, but I highly recommend fermenting some of your Garlic in your own raw Honey. You won't be disappointed. You just crush the cloves as you peel them, stick them in a Kilner jar, cover with Honey, and leave to sit until it stops bubbling. I've just done this years batch, which is actually all I grow my own Garlic for. I leave it for the whole year, but you don't have to, it's just by the time you have, the Garlic is mild, and sweet all the way through. Great for putting on all those salads!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Excellent. I think originally I picked it up from Stacy, on the Doug and Stacy channel years ago. She has loads of preserving/fermenting recipes, and I've used quite a few. Stacy is a wealth of such information!
I am so glad you are getting so into it Charles! It would be nice to see how much your bees increase your yields. My brother is a migratory bee keeper in California and is paid to put his hives over farms of potatoes etc. Take care my learning friend...the sound of excitement in your voice in the background is one aspect of this brilliant video. Cheers!
You can mark the queen and we sometimes do. I like to think of it as the queen just having a tattoo. However, I have had instances in the past where the colony has rejected the queen after marking. Possibly it disrupts her pheromones and the bees don't like it.
There is also a risk of damaging the queen when marking so sometimes we prefer to not mark. Particularly if it is later in the year and the colony would not have time to requeen
Hi Charles, good to see you again. I also started beekeeping in June this year, currently I have one hive full of bees and another hive is waiting assembly to be ready for next season.
This is something I'd like to work my way into starting up in the next couple years. Seems like a big win all the way 'round! Thanks for sharing this, and all the gardening content/inspiration. Best, Bob (Zone 6, BC, Canada)
Now I have finished the video... Your coach is very gentle with the bees and a pretty good teacher! And your bees are pretty calm... I have two hives that are alot feistier but they are the ones that are the ones that need the least attention and produce the most honey... Btw: you get used to get stung ones in a while, your body learns to deal with it
that's not true at all. Many people get more sensitive over time and can lead to adverse severe reactions and even life threatening. There is a lot of scientific evidence for people becoming more resistant as well as more at risk. My boss is a great example, got stung heaps in his youth and as he got older he got more sensitve to the point where he got a bee sting and we had to call the ambulance. Be mindful on putting out information that "you learn to deal with it" many people dont...... Bee's kill as many people as snakes in Australia due to adverse reactions and that number is around 12 per year.
@@Leo_S94: yes that is the minority of people, as I have experienced so far... But most Beekeepers that I know, said that their body got used to it... How many Beekeepers do you have asked?
@@saschathinius7082 Thats anecdotal evidence mate. Many people have allergic reactions to bee stings and thats a fact. Look up the hospitilisations in your state and you will see. Elderly people especially can develope sensitivity over time. There's a reason why hives must be registered as their is responsability on the bee keeper that others are safe and aware of the risks. Thinking you will get adapted to it is wishful thinking at best. Bee's are no joke and should be taken more seriously.
That brings back great memories about hives we had. Wonderful fragrance from the smoke and honey. Such a rewarding skill. Lots to learn about bee behaviors, what they need, how often to harvest and how much. It’s incredible how much honey just one super produces. Good luck with this new venture, though it sounds like you’re well underway.
So wonderful to see ❤️. Had no idea there were hives with that size of the frames, have only seen the really large ones. This seems definitely more managable.
Beautiful to see Bees in your NoDig garden.
That is interesting 🤔
May bee something to consider in the future.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
😀
I would love so very much to have bees
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I LOVE honey so much. As a child, I ate peanut butter and honey sandwiches EVERY DAY for lunch for years even though my mother would have liked me to have a more varied diet, LOL! Such an amazing process by such tiny creatures.
Yes, quite amazing!
So interesting! Yummy honey from you garden! Awesome!
Hi Charles, good to see you've joined us beekeepers. If you want something that's more equivalent to no-dig in the bee world, but not as unaccessible as Bee Kind Hives (which I love), then look up Phil Chandler. He's not so far from you and has been teaching people for years about barefoot beekeeping - basically as natural as you can get, whilst having accessible hives. Smoking the bees doesn't calm them. It's probably akin to putting a fork in your soil, and it's very rarely necessary. And several people mentioned the flow hives - yes they are too good to be true. Blessings from Holland.
Thank you Dominic, I have heard of Phil and shall look him up because I like the sound of what you say. And that is interesting about the smoke, and about the flow hives!
BEEEE----AUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!
Wow! Excellent information and very interesting
VERY lovely bees
I grew up with hives in my parents small backyard....it was dad's hobby until he became a diabetic. How things hv changed in the equipment used but principals still the same. Dad is now 87 and l will be showing him your video!! They are amazing creatures we would not survive without them ❤
Thanks Kerrie and I hope he enjoys it
My Irish black bees are so chill I've been able to just stop using any smoke, they're just that calm. Only down side is they are that chill about everything including growing as a hive
Hmm, mostly good for you :) nice to hear
hahahha
Just a little reminder- the worker bees are female, so when the beekeeper says "It'll take forever for him to emerge" he means "She". Gotta fight to get credit in this world when you're female :) Thank you for continuing to teach!
Thank you for clarifying this and it is apt that the worker bees are female!
Excellent. Nice harvest of honey. I have my first hive this year. Tiny colony from a swarm to begin with so just building them up this year. Hopefully honey next year.
Best of luck and an exciting prospect
You definitely need to keep bees of your own to produce saleable honey to go along with your market garden. I have been a beekeeper for over 40 years, and it's one of most rewarding experiences I have had in my life. The bees are just amazing creatures, there is so much to learn about them. I normally operate about 35-40 hives and sell the honey at four stores year round.
Thanks for this John. That is impressive.
So far so good for us :)
Wow.....so many bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝 just beautiful
Какие же вы молодцы!!!😍 👍👍👍 of Russia 🇷🇺
I hope you enjoyed the honey Charles. Honey from your own hives is like enjoying strawberries fresh from the plant. Not much can beat it!
So good thanks! More than special :)
I never thought tonise a heat gun to melt the caps! It's out first year harvesting and we tried the knife, and comb but I think I like how the heat gun melts the caps and doesn't appear to damage the comb as much
Jed will like this comment :)
Such beautiful honey. Very fascinating process. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you!
🍯 thanks
beautiful video i adore beesx
Very nice Charles. Don't forget to feed and protect with a windbreak if you can. I have kept bees for over two years now. I love the little critters. Keep a tube of tooth paste (as we call it hear) close. The salt in it pulls the venom out when you get stung. A nice old beekeepers trick. And you will get stung. That's what they do.
Thanks for the tip Wayne, really nifty!
How I wish we had Buckfast bees in Australia! My bees are mean and nasty.
Beautiful video thanks Charles and all
It would be nice to have a follow up video.. I am learning about bees fascinating creatures
Big thumbs up from Serbian beekeeper :)
I am honoured 🍯
thank you very much charles❤️
How lovely!
What fascinating creatures they are and definitely need protecting! Fab video, Charles!
Glad you enjoyed it Irene
Very informative video, Charles.
Glad you liked it!
Great to see you're enjoying your beekeeping. Greetings from Conwy Beekeepers, North Wales
Thanks for having a look :)
I have watched video from here (North America ) and have never seen that plate on top before....something different!
VERY NICE ..GOOD LUCK,,,,....LIKE
Thank you 👍
Nice start the “no dig bees” thans even more fun!
That initial drone shot is fantastic
Awesome, can't wait to try this myself
I enjoyed this video so much, thank you 😘
As the chair of an allotment society I should add that insurance companies have strict rules on keeping bees. Our insurance company charge £50 PA but also a whole lot of hoops for a bee keeper to climb through.
Fascinating!
Wonderful presentation. I even learned how bees keep their hives warm in cold weather. All designed by God. Thanks, Charles.
Nice video Mr Charles..
Thank you kindly Lance
Thanks´ Charles for showing us how to do it. I tried it, though in smaller quantities, a couple of litres, and it worked out fine. I kept the mother of course and used it for some red wine left overs; we´ll see how that will turn out. The apple cider vineagar was easy and useful. Have used my own batch all winter, spring and summer, and now, in July, I´m running out - very soon I need a new harvest of apples! Thanks´again for inspiring us! Greetings from Sweden/Stockholm, 59 N, 18 E.
Most impressive Nanna!
That was very informative, Charles, thank you for that wonderful video. May God continue to bless you and your family. Take care
Glad you enjoyed it Phil
Bravo. Cela fait très plaisir de voir les abeilles. Quelle belle initiative.
I love bees!
nice video charles
Thanks Steven
Lovely to see this, Charles. It's like a natural progression for your no-dig garden. Very fitting 👌
This is so neat!
Since you have your own honey, now would be a good time to start making mead. It's a fun project during the winter months.
Thanks, actually it's not a huge amount and I would rather give it as a present because it's so special :)
Hi Charles , a great video. It's also my first year of beekeeping experience and I chasing TH-cam for such content. Will be glad to see more such videos from you. Good luck !
Thanks, and best of luck!
Maravilloso video... no puedo comer miel... pero me encanta la idea de ayudarlas a crecer y tener lugares seguros... son tan importantes y estamos acabando con ellas ... además de flores que les gustan he puesto bebederos para ellas... Gracias como siempre Charles.
That is lovely Griselda and thanks for writing
I was literally just looking up beehives! Very timely my friend.
Hopefully starting my first hive next year. Thinking of going for a top bar hive.
Sounds great
In the video i noticed you asked if the frame was heavy; if you're worried about weight maybe a horizontal hive might be better than the ones you have now (where you have to remove the supper)
Leo Sharashkin has some information about natural bee keeping and horizontal hives if you're interested.
Thanks for the tips
Amazing.
Wow that was interesting. They are so interesting little insects. I hope to get a couple of hives myself
Пчелы это хорошо👍👍👍
Lovely, just lovely! As a former commercial beekeeper, I still love honeybees. I no longer am able to have hives due to a back injury preventing me from lifting the supers, but I now have native bee houses to ensure there are plenty of pollinators for the vegetables and fruit trees.
Thanks, and it sounds like you are managing what must be a frustrating situation 🌺
My neighbor growing up had bees, I was fascinated watching him work the hives. Funny tho, I don't remember him ever sharing with us. This was a fun throw back for me. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.!
Oh wow!
Oh My!
BEES!
Thankyou for this lovely journey!
Romans 1:20....for those who may doubt.
I never find my queens that fast anymore! My first one, 10 or so years ago, was so big and beautiful l could see her in an instant. Good to see him not using gloves. It may be counter intuitive but it keeps you from being too mean and forceful and they are gentle in return. Keep going. Love the videos.
Thanks Edward, and nice point about gloves
Love it as a Canadian beekeeper it is interesting on how other places keep bees. The things that are the same and those that are different. We like to say they kick the drones out or they would spend the cold winter eating honey and watching bee sports. Love to just sit and watch the bees come and go. Great way to decompress after the work day.
Yes we like watching bee sport! Thanks for sharing
Nice to see your bee hives ,I kept bees for 5 years working up to 6 hives, I loved keeping them but due to busy life, I had to give them up but I do love watching videos on people working them.
Cheers Neville
Now you have bees and honey to be proud of! Congrats!
How wonderful! Good for you. Enjoy. 🥰💖🌻
Great video !
Thanks for the visit 🐝
Why was the almond oil put in and heated? To push the bees down farther down into the hive?
That may have not been explained fully.
Very interesting video!! What lovey bees you have Charles🤩💛😍
Thanks, and yes, so that he could remove the top box with its honey, while bees stayed below.
So cool.
Great to learn how beehives are organized and how the different types of bees operate in the hives👍🏾
What a great video, loved it. Big thanks to the briliant Black Bee Honey crew and the beautiful bees they brought to Homeacres 👏🏻🌻🐝
and to you!
Jed is my friend and i can tell you He loves his bees cant stop talking about it ( in a good way ) well done guys great video ! 👍
Thanks Lukas ❤🐝
You're up late!!
I'm on morning shift.
ya te echaba de menos😊! tus abejas me recordaron parte de mi infancia , a mi padre le decian el OSO..por que le gustaba sacar la miel de los panales!yo era quien ayudaba cuando era mas joven...lo bonito es que las abejas son muy nobles y trabajadoras,si las tratas con amor te daran el nectar mas dulce que hubieras probado..!haces una hermosa labor compariendo tus videos! he aprendido mucho de ellos, espero en dios poder algun dia poner el invernadero de mis suenos para que los infantes de la escuela puedan disfrutar de la naturaleza mi querido charly
Gracias por tu hermoso mensaje Ruby y tu padre suena un buen hombre. ¡Buena suerte ayudando e inspirando a los niños!
AMAZING!!!
Charles watch Duck River Honey Nathan has a good channel.nice video
What a great video. It's so interesting to see the make-up of a hive and how the colony works. Thank you.
So interesting, thank you:)
I have four hives on my property. I used to keep them, but each time I got stung the reaction got worse so I have the local beekeeping club care for them now. We split the honey. I definitely get the better of the deal because I also get the fruit of their pollination in my gardens. I still enjoy sitting by the hives and watching the bees come and go. Not sure why, but it’s so very relaxing.
Thanks for sharing Don, and I so agreel
Charles I don’t see you climbing up trees to collect the honey though interesting as it might seem, enough danger at ground level. That was most interesting and a nice drop of honey collected.
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Welcome to the family of beekeepers, Charles now you can ask me for advice... I have bees for years.... and I use wooden boxes like yours only in the german DN (Deutsch Normal) format... And I have my way of doing it, as bee friendly as possible (I think), without beeing dangerous (Varoa and other 'pests') for surrounding bee hives... I do take honey from the bees but only if the bees have enough to eat for winter, I avoid feeding sugar as much as possible...
Haha this is cool and thankyou Sascha 🐝
I like how you are always looking for new opportunities on your farm! Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing and I believe that your honey will taste amazing. Cheers! Dusan
So nice of you Dusan and yes the flavour is sweet flowers!
I highly recommend a Flow Hive if you are going to only keep a couple hives on your property. Far easier to extract the honey. I have two myself and they are an incredible invention! I enjoy seeing you get involved in new hobbies.
Thanks for sharing, they seem 'too good to be true'!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig They were invented by a father and son duo, you would absolutely love it! The results speak for themselves :). Looking forward to the water hole video as well !
Honey, bees... i love it too. Also glad you're in business. All the best, Charles and your group.☀️
That was so fun to watch! Thank you Charles and friends. I tried keeping bees, I failed, but I love them all the same.
Our pleasure!
So very amazing 🐝🐝🐝🐝
Very interesting! Thank you!
Hmmm. Ok There are many ways to manage bees,
I leave honey for the bees to last the winter.
No excluders for me 😁👍
The learning curve is massive by the way :)
Yes indeed and thanks for sharing
Great video! 😊👍🏻 glad to hear your going into Beekeeing!! It’s a great hobby 😊🐝🐝🐝
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Honey bees are indeed amazing. Good luck with your project but can I put in a plea for all the many species of native bumble bees and solitary bees. They are also excellent pollinators especially for fruit but depend for their survival on wildflowers. Introducing huge numbers of honey bees into an area means there is much more competition for a limited food supply unless you provide a large area of wildflower meadow too.
Oh dear! Hope we have not overdone it. Am not thinking to increase hive number
I love watching these sorts of videos, and I have a friend close by who also has Bees, but sadly I can't go to them, because I'm allergic to them. However, I'm very fortunate to be one of the few to receive some of their hard work. I don't know if you've ever tried doing it, but I highly recommend fermenting some of your Garlic in your own raw Honey. You won't be disappointed. You just crush the cloves as you peel them, stick them in a Kilner jar, cover with Honey, and leave to sit until it stops bubbling. I've just done this years batch, which is actually all I grow my own Garlic for. I leave it for the whole year, but you don't have to, it's just by the time you have, the Garlic is mild, and sweet all the way through. Great for putting on all those salads!
Sounds amazing Suzanne and you are the third person to recommend it!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Excellent. I think originally I picked it up from Stacy, on the Doug and Stacy channel years ago. She has loads of preserving/fermenting recipes, and I've used quite a few. Stacy is a wealth of such information!
I am so glad you are getting so into it Charles! It would be nice to see how much your bees increase your yields. My brother is a migratory bee keeper in California and is paid to put his hives over farms of potatoes etc. Take care my learning friend...the sound of excitement in your voice in the background is one aspect of this brilliant video. Cheers!
Cheers Craig, and fascinating about potatoes!
They must be using bees to pollinate potato flowers when breeding new varieties. There would be no other reason to have bees on that crop.
Brilliant very educational. I would appreciate to see a video detailing your friends unconventional approach to bee keeping.
Thanks and great suggestion and they may put out their own content
Great!!! 😍😍😍
Usually its good practice to mark the queen to help find her.
You can mark the queen and we sometimes do. I like to think of it as the queen just having a tattoo. However, I have had instances in the past where the colony has rejected the queen after marking. Possibly it disrupts her pheromones and the bees don't like it.
There is also a risk of damaging the queen when marking so sometimes we prefer to not mark. Particularly if it is later in the year and the colony would not have time to requeen
awesome
Loved this , I love bees .
Hi Charles, good to see you again. I also started beekeeping in June this year, currently I have one hive full of bees and another hive is waiting assembly to be ready for next season.
Great to hear, exciting!
This is something I'd like to work my way into starting up in the next couple years. Seems like a big win all the way 'round!
Thanks for sharing this, and all the gardening content/inspiration.
Best,
Bob (Zone 6, BC, Canada)
Thanks, and best of luck Bob.
I am fascinated!
Such an informative segment.
I want to learn MORE!
Now I have finished the video... Your coach is very gentle with the bees and a pretty good teacher! And your bees are pretty calm... I have two hives that are alot feistier but they are the ones that are the ones that need the least attention and produce the most honey... Btw: you get used to get stung ones in a while, your body learns to deal with it
Yes he is great to learn from n- and that is nice to hear!
that's not true at all. Many people get more sensitive over time and can lead to adverse severe reactions and even life threatening. There is a lot of scientific evidence for people becoming more resistant as well as more at risk. My boss is a great example, got stung heaps in his youth and as he got older he got more sensitve to the point where he got a bee sting and we had to call the ambulance. Be mindful on putting out information that "you learn to deal with it" many people dont...... Bee's kill as many people as snakes in Australia due to adverse reactions and that number is around 12 per year.
@@Leo_S94: yes that is the minority of people, as I have experienced so far... But most Beekeepers that I know, said that their body got used to it... How many Beekeepers do you have asked?
@@saschathinius7082 Thats anecdotal evidence mate. Many people have allergic reactions to bee stings and thats a fact. Look up the hospitilisations in your state and you will see. Elderly people especially can develope sensitivity over time. There's a reason why hives must be registered as their is responsability on the bee keeper that others are safe and aware of the risks. Thinking you will get adapted to it is wishful thinking at best. Bee's are no joke and should be taken more seriously.
Really interesting. And I love to see how the bees are shown real care by the bee keepers. Thanks for showing us
That brings back great memories about hives we had. Wonderful fragrance from the smoke and honey. Such a rewarding skill. Lots to learn about bee behaviors, what they need, how often to harvest and how much. It’s incredible how much honey just one super produces. Good luck with this new venture, though it sounds like you’re well underway.
Thanks Christine
So wonderful to see ❤️. Had no idea there were hives with that size of the frames, have only seen the really large ones. This seems definitely more managable.
You are very welcome