How to START BEEKEEPING! Inexpensive and Sustainable
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Good Afternoon, Glad to see you both having fun. Dr. Leo, i ordered some lemon grass and tubes and some wax foundation last year to place in a swarm trap. You will not believe my story. I have about 100 trees, from pistachio trees, plum trees, apricot trees and pecan trees and others, My trees are not as tall as the ones you have. I placed the box on a 50 gallon barrell for height and placed in with the pistachio near the male trees with the lemon grass and tubes, This has sat about a year now and this year NO bees, I can count about 10 to 15 bees, Plum trees had a lot of flowers but no bees so this harvest will only have a hand full if that, and same with the peach trees and the apricot trees and pomegranate bushes and other plants, NO BEES. I even placed the lemon grass tubes on some of the trees to attract some bees, But NO BEES. The pistachio trees on the male, It takes the wind to pollinate the male trees but the bees love the pollen also. The bees love the pollen also and usually the males are full of bees. The last 2 years the temp has been 110 to 112 and months at a time, it is getting hotter here. If this is a sign to what is coming we all are done for. It is scarry. I was thinking to order some bees but they may die also. OK, Take care, love watching Doug and Stacy and also you. take care.
I love to watch Dr Leo, I'm rehabbing my legs, but hearing that the horizonal hive make it possible in a wheelchair.
I took Dr. Leo’s 2-day seminar in March and it was awesome. His apiary is beautiful and the bee bed is amazing. I’m building swarm traps and hives now using his plans that are very good.
Hellloooo guys! Congratulations Dr. Leo.
Doug and yourself are a big inspiration to us, along with Stacy we can’t forget about her. Angie and I hope someday we can be as beneficial to someone as you all have been to us. We currently have 2 layens swarm traps out, and I have a third to put out this weekend. Thank you both for the hard work and dedication that you have the all of us, we greatly appreciate it. Have a wonderful day and God bless.
That wasn't just informative, it was fun too. Thanks, you two!
Thank you Dr. Leo with educating us people about the bee collecting bee swarm and the different boxes. And then having classes in the Fall. Looking forward to seeing and meeting you and learning all about keeping bees happy 💞🤠👍
Hi Sue
I wish he would have shown his honey collection room and discuss how he collects and processes his honey. I'd like to know how much he usually collects with so many hives.
Excellent suggestion for another video. This would be awesome.. 😉
There is a complete playlist on beekeeping including ways to extract on Doug and Stacy’s TH-cam channel. Dr Leo visited Doug’s homestead and went through how to harvest and extract.
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That's amazing! Wish we were closer to you. Thanks for the all the lessens
Thank you for giving of your time to showing us we can do this. I have been wanting to get bees and wasn’t sure how to start, now i know it is achievable for me on my budget. Just have to save for the initial set up. Also a bee suit as I have a little issue with being stung?😅
Oh my goodness loved the smiles!😉 I'm from WI and have had the problems with the wild temperature fluctuations you talked about this is one of so many reasons this is such a great way to raise bees. Congrats on your learning center! One of these years I'll have to come to one of your classes! Till then..get ready for another order. And thank you for sending my first book so quickly! Super service!!!
When I saw that truck moving so slow towards that 🐝🐝🐝🐝 I thought Boy-O-Boy today Doug is going to put Stacy in with the bees 🤣🤣🤣 Run Stacy run!!! Great videos. Love watching ya'll. 💐💙💙
Yes. Dr. Leo, congratulations on the education center. Thanks Doug for the video.
Dr Leo is fabulous as always! I am enjoying his wry sense of humor as well. :) About getting the swarm trap up the ladder…. You could screw handles to the sides of the swarm trap….. then clip a shoulder strap to the handles so that you could wear the box like a messenger bag as you climb the ladder. It could be a detachable shoulder strap that you could unhook after you get the trap mounted onto the tree. No dropping things that way and leaves your hands free for 3 points of contact on the ladder.
Dr. Leo, I have so much respect for you, Doug & Stacy. I'm 75 and would love to have an off-grid home with bees, sheep, rabbits and chickens, but I may only get knowledge. And that knowledge is worth so much to me. It will have to do. Thank you for all the time and work you put into your programing.
Congratulations Dr Leo, great spot for your education center.
Hi Karen
My daughter bought me a horizontal hive and Nuc last May. Both are set up but no bees swarms yet. Last May the Nuc had 6 scouts going in and out of the Nuc box 3 days after I set it up!! I was so excited!! It started raining and rained for days and they never came back…I let the dandelions grow one our lawn!! We have tons of bees feeding on them!!
I am not binge watching Dr. Leo and Doug and the bee education. Can't wait to get started!
Doug , bee's are something I've just started to learn about , so my wife and I can add them to our homestead this spring along with sheep.... Needless to say this one's very useful to me ...
Thanks for everything you and Stacey are doing , God bless you both... 👍 🙏
Once my family I move there to the Ozarks I will be attending Dr. Leo’s workshops. Congratulations Dr. Leo this sounds exciting!
love how you caught a swarm in the tree and step to take in order get best result
This is so awesome! Congrats on your new center, Dr. Leo! I would love to see your facility when I'm in Southern Missouri. We must save the bees!
Hi Leah
Shalom Doug, Dr. Leo and bee keeping has been such a good addition to your channel! I will check out his channel as well...love his Slavic accent. Have a blessed week!
You guys are awesome. Thanks for being such great teachers. Congratulations on the new classroom build. Looking forward to more videos. Keep up the good work.
congratulations on the learning center Dr Leo! so many excellent ideas!
Beautiful artistic beehives, Thanks for all your information on capturing a swarming colony.
Hi Donna
I am going to very soon start beekeeping you guys have helped a lot my family needs healthy honey
Congratulations on your bee center. I enjoy your videos and find the horizontal hives interesting.
I get so excited when you all come on …
Congrats on the learning Center. Dr Eli actually got back fro me last fall when I had a question about a late season swarm that i had caught accidentally in an old hive. Unfortunately the swarm didn’t make it through the winter, but I just set two new swarm traps so this video was very timely. I’m hoping to catch at least one swarm. First time for me.
Love Dr.Leo! Congratulations on your new learning center educating people on beekeeping!
Congratulations Dr Leo. I know your learning center will BEE successful. Could not resist the pun.
Doug, I think I have to say that this series of videos with you and Dr. Leo have been some of the most enjoyable videos you've made. Interesting, educational. The one on the logging really got to me with all the damage. My family never allowed loggers to take more than a few agreed upon trees and they never left a mess. People who are so greedy for a dollar should not be allowed to own our precious resources. I'm sure you saved more than a few land owners from the destruction of their property or from purchasing destroyed property.
That is so great DR. Leo. I am happy for you . Thank you Doug .
Great video! You can use basement to change the bees orientation, if you don't have possibility to move them several miles away. Temperature should be approx. 10-12 degrees celsius, good ventilation with no wet. Let them there for 3 days and then move them to your apiary.
I actually experienced a live bee swarm in my own backyard about 8-10 years ago. It was a hot summer day, and I was sitting on our back kitchen porch, (very small porch with brick wall and pillars) with my Jack Russell terrier sleeping in a cushioned chair next to me. I was engrossed in watching a video, and there's always a bee or two buzzing by when I'm on the porch, because I have two hanging baskets with flowers and there's a flower bed around this porch too. Plus my deck is adjacent to the porch, with 2 huge planters/pots with flowers at the entrance, plus more smaller pots of flowers on it too. So I'm sitting there on the porch, and I hear buzzing, but I'm not paying attention and engrossed in watching some video. The buzzing increased, and then I started noticing more bees flying onto the porch area, and by the time I looked up to see what the heck was going on...it was a full fledged swarm of bees just feet away from where I and my dog were sitting. My small back yard and driveway pad back there, was a solid wall at least 20-30 feet high too, of buzzing bees just darting in every direction. I slowly got up and got my dog and as I was opening my storm door those bees started engulfing the porch, just as I closed the door. I watched from the door window (& even with the door shut, you could hear the loud buzzing of the bees), and after so many minutes, the bees became less and less. After 15+ minutes passed, I ventured outside cautiously, and once I felt safe, walked out further to try and see where they went. I then noticed about 20 feet from the backyard driveway parking pad, in my neighbor's yard, the bees could be seen flying in and out and around the top of her huge maple tree. As I kept looking to see where they were in the tree (it was July or August, and the tree was in full leaf), I noticed up high on the tree, a branch that had a big brown shaped thing on it. Looked closer and it was those bees, just thousands of bees all in a solid mass/glob-like, on a branch. And you could see it moving, as the bees were on it. What an experience! Never witnessed anything like that in my life! I sat down and started looking up "Bee swarms", and read all about it and why it happens. And just like the articles on it said, these bees stayed put for a day I think (a day and a half?), until the scouts found their next "home"...& I was able to witness their departure to their new location. Same thing, the buzzing got louder and louder, then my driveway and back yard was wall to wall bees darting very fast, and that mass just crept across the street behind my house, across the field and towards the edge of the forested area. I'm in town, but up on the hill, and on the edge of town, there's a line of trees just two streets over from our home, and that's all wooded area that butts against a local Park. I see a red tailed hawk every year back there, that flies over the field across the street. Even comes in to the residential area of town, flying above and looking down into people's back yards. One summer I looked out the kitchen window and that hawk was perched on my deck railing, had no idea how big it was and beautiful. Just stunning. But listening to the doctor here, on where to put the swarm catching box, made me realize why I got to witness that amazing scene from nature in that bee swarm that summer!
That is awesome! Congratulations Dr. Leo. 😃
Scott came home excited. I haven't talked to Austin and Syanne yet.
Hi Jeanie
Congratulations Dr Leo on your new learning center!!! An thank you Doug for making these videos with Dr Leo. I learn more and more every time you do. I’m starting to almost feel brave enough to try bee keeping. Blessings to both families and keep teaching.
Thank you so much for all you guys (and gals) do. I recently found your channels and have been enjoying going through them all. I save some to watch but I have been also enjoying just listening while driving to work and back. I love the in person teaching lessons idea! I also live in Missouri (Springfield) and am such a hands on in person learner that I would love to hopefully one day attend one your classes. Keep up the great work. (Also I enjoy the extra material such as the driving in this video, I live in town right now and miss the nature, the country, the view and its relaxing to me so keep up the great work). 🙂
That's great Dr. Leo will enjoy seeing all that
Hi Hattie
Love it, I wish there was more people doing it the natural way in South Africa.
I am planning to try to catch a swarm this spring. Thank you for the grrat info!!
This is nice to know. My daughter has mentioned about starting some bee hives, this will be very helpful. We live in Central Mi.
Congratulation Dr. Leo and thank you for caring so much and your willingness to teach others.
Congratulations Dr. Leo!
Thank you Doug and Dr Leo !!! Amazing information we appreciate ur time amd effort !!
Congratulations Dr. Leo thank you for sharing. Great stuff.
Wow! Great Information right there! Thanx Dr. Leo! Thanx for sharing Doug!
Congrats Dr Leo❤️. Great stuff 👏🤟🇺🇸
Hi Joann
I love his apiary. Was there in Sept 2021
Congrats DR Leo and Family!!!
Congratulations to all of you. Wished I lived close to take both of your classes.
Did you know "Save the Bees" is actually about saving the solitary bees? Which is really simple to create housing for solitary bees. You can create a small box with sticks stacked in the box, or you can stick bamboo stacked in the box, or you take a tree truck and drill holes 6 inches - 7 inches deep for the solitary bees to leave their larvae to grow.
Awesome! Thankful for all the great info
Congratulations! So happy there are people like you to help others learn correct ways of bee keeping
Luv to see Dr. Leo !!! Congratulations on the center ! Wish I was closer .
I'm excited about this topic. Thank you so much.
Loved all the bee keeping videos. Any update on Dr Leo's learning center. I have looked at his site several times and do not see any info on it, nor anything about classes? Was wondering what has happened?? Hope all is well.
Exciting news re the learning center! Thank you so much for the great information!
Congratulations Dr Leo! I hope to one day attend one of your classes at your new location. Thanks for all the tips!
Lots of good info. Love seeing your smile!
Thank you both🥰
Oh...I saw this one on my Roku TV.
Amazing...
Thank you gentlemen 😊
Hi Claudette
A question for Doug/Leo:
How would we know whether a trapped hive of bees is wild, and not a commercial swarm that has flown it’s coop upstream?
By the proximity of other beekeepers...if you have any "commercial" types within 3 miles chances are good its no good lol but don't let that stop you if that's all you got.....✌️
congrates on your new school.
I LOVE YALLS VIDEOS GOD BLESS YALL❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dr Leo I am so excited about getting started. I wish I was closer. I am in Northern Illinois.
Lucky #1000 "like" on this video! Wish I could talk my hubby into this!! I'll have to have him watch you!! I also watch Jeff Horchoff bees adventures! So interesting how they save different swarms that would other wise be destroyed!
Hi Christine
Thanks Doc.for sharing. Good to know.
Around here (central Maine) I think most of the swarms come from other beekeepers. I've sent a couple swarms into the ether. So catching swarms doesn't necessarily mean you are catching local bees.
I love your natural bee knowledge thank you 🤗✝️🙌
Have a 🐝 day😀🇦🇺
hey guys ,very very interesting .... watching from south east Ireland
Very informative video. Thank you!
Fascinating
Congratulations!!
Always interesting.... Congrats Dr. Leo!!!!!
Great video we learn a lot . How do y’all keep the raccoon from getting in the bee box
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏 Shalom
Doug & Dr Leo great video today. The last video Dr Leo said bees made more profit than cattle, will you have a video explaining this coming soon. Thank you Darrel
great video!!!! Can't wait to get started
Always great information 👍. Greetings from Wisconsin.
Thank 🐝 you!
I live in Central Texas, is it better to put the hive in the sun or shade? Congrats on the new education center Dr Leo!!
Same thing on this video. Can't like it 😮😢. ❤ i would love to see this guy again. Maybe time to make content on processing or maybe how to make homemade wax trays or whatever they are. I'm about to build my own hive. Lol horizontal hive here i come .
I'm in the Ozarks ,I have a hive in the eve of my porch they've been there at least 3 yrs yr before last honey was running down the porch post but I haven't opened it up .
Thank you! I’m going to your site. 😁
i want to do this. thanks for sharing the information;
Georgia bees for the win!!!!
I only want one kind of hive, the kind with mason jars being filled.
why am i ducking when you drive thru branches😂😂😂🤣
Any update on how your hives are performing this year?
Good Job Doc, thanks
I screwed other 1” or 2/4” 3 feet long piece of wood on side 2 or 4 screws trow wood into the box box ,and the same one other and of piece into the tree 3” Or longer screws depending on the wood to hold the box. So in the box I use short screws on upper end I use longer screws minimum tree screws. When I take down after I unscrew the upper screws I can hold on that extension wood about 2 feet or I can put a strap, or other longer piece off wood screws into the box or… so I can have a better control on holding the box coming down on the climbing ladder . Other idea, maybe that helps. Be careful.
Hi Doug and Stacy 💐💐💐
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It appears to me that mounting a screen door handle on top of the box would simplify carrying it up and down the ladder, Just a suggestion.
When is the latest you should put out your swarm catching hive? Im sorry if i missed it. Im in northern michigan if that matters
I love this video thanks 😊 I’m a natural bee keeper always wanted to just need cabins built. If you know any good honest builders
Is there a way to put up the bee catching box not in the tree. I see bees in a massive silver maple but it is covered in poison ivy vines going up 25'.
Good morning, I caught 2 swams and 2 hrs after installing them they left.I vacuumed a hive from a tree, they left. I vacuumed it giant size hive from a shed, they also left. Somebody help me!! I'm in Florida.
The question I have is what if your area doesn't have any 'natural' honey bees? The only choice you have is the package bees and they constantly die and are not hardy enough to survive winter so you have to keep buying them every year.
What is the advantages of horizontal hives