Michael Palmer: Seasonal Management of Double Nuclei
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2024
- In recent years I’ve spoken many times about my nucleus colonies. Much of what I’ve said in the past has been about theory, using them to set up and maintain a stable sustainable apiary. Now, it’s time to talk about the seasonal management of these gems in the apiary. I’ll take the listeners from nucleus creation to summer management and swarm control. Also included will be queen evaluation in nucleus colonies, varroa control, and winter preparations.
Michael Palmer spent most of his childhood time outdoors, fascinated by the plants and insects and animals living in his suburban New York City environment. He escaped the city by going off to the University of Vermont, where he fell in love with the countryside, his future wife, and eventually the little bugs that we all hold so dear. The first colonies of honey bees arrived in 1974 as packaged bees, and over the following twenty odd years, he built French Hill Apiaries into a farm of nearly a thousand colonies. About 1990, Acarine mites and then Varroa mites arrived in his bees. The result was not pretty. Beekeeping became way more difficult, and way more expensive. With ever increasing losses, the wisdom of buying in replacement bees came into question. Splitting strong colonies reduced the honey crop and pollinating the local apple orchards caused the whole operation to fall apart with failing colonies, broken equipment, and one thoroughly exhausted and one frustrated beekeeper. In 1998, Mike tried raising a few queens, wintering them in nucleus colonies. The results changed his beekeeping forever. Not only did the bees winter more successfully and store larger surplus honey crops, the fun level rose to new heights, far above the clouds. Believing that quality should always trump quantity, a decision was made to cut back on the total number of production colonies in the apiary and focus on raising the best queens possible. With a thousand nucleus colonies of various configurations to help support the three hundred honey producing colonies, French Hill Apiaries produces, on average, some twelve hundred queens and fifteen tons of honey annually. Michael lives in St. Albans, Vermont with his wife Lesley, along with Wilson and Gemma, their Maremma Sheepdogs. When not helping his crew manage the honey production colonies, or spending countless hours in the queen rearing apiaries, Mike travels the world teaching sustainable beekeeping to anyone who will listen.
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National treasure this man is
I always like watching and listening to mike I watch every thing he does he is a great beekeeper. I wish someone would get him to talk about how he manages his Production hives He has never did a talk on that his talk is always on the resource hives. It would be really great if you got him and he did. Have a Blessed week,
Sincerest thanks again to Mike Palmer, always a font of experience which he shares so willingly and clearly. I began beekeeping in 1983 but after nine years had to take time out due to chronic I’ll-health and began again in 2000 moving away from Buckfasts (which I began with again 😕) and am now keeping lots of nucs alongside my production colonies with my own carefully selected Black Welsh (British) bees and breeding my own line of really dark queens has turned out to be so rewarding in terms of quality, fitness to the environment and just plain satisfaction of seeing really good bees I can breed from and in quantities to ensure I always have a surplus in case of emergencies. Diolch, from mid-Wales Mr Palmer!
I watch Micheal whenever he is doing a presentation. He has said in the past that he manages his honey production colonies so that they don't swarm and build up so they produce a lot of honey. I've never heard or watched Michael explain that method.
Every hive is a different book .
Thats what makes them so amazingly interesting 😮😂
I Never get tired of hearing Michael Palmer! As he has stated in the past, this system can be done with any style hive. Due to back surgery, I am working on this system with Layens hives double deep. Thank you Michael! I am in New Hampshire so appreciate your work in our climates.
Thanks very much Michael Palmer, it's amazing this year, using Nuc Bombs, add to weak hives, best honey flow ever, thank you
Ver o mestre tão lúcido assim é uma alegria, pra quem só está tentando aprender com sua experiência.
Murray, Watch video so many times, it encourages me to keep going, their other way to produce bee's and more honey, I enjoy making nuc bomb, to build up weak Hives for the honey flow,, wish I had thought of that, every hive is producing wonderfully, thanks again Michael pamler for your information
Майкл Палмер молодец. Спасибо ему.
Nobody compares to Michael Palmer..these newer you tube beekeepers don't know 1/3.#facts
Excelente
May is our first pollen 😅and is over mid July until August fall flowers
I am wondering, if the following is going to work out fine:
Double nuclei and demaree in one!
On the bottom the 2 queens on foundation and one broodframe each, both in 2 stacked 5-frame-boxes besides each other.
Queenexcluder.
Then 2 honey-boxes.
Queenexcluder.
Boxes with brood of both on top, without splitting.
GOAT
Amen
What exactly qualifies you to lecture on anything bee related? According to your opening, you managed to kill 150 hives (or 60% of your apiary). Is this video supposed to be a "what not to do"?