With 23+ years of beekeeping experience, I take the guesswork out of beekeeping with NEW CONTENT every SATURDAY or SUNDAY. Author of The Intuitive Beekeeper: Beyond Master Beekeeping, Jonathan Hargus guides you out of the beginner levels of beekeeping, helping you to gain the confidence to know what you're doing.
This channel starts off with beginner basics and works its way up to intermediate and advanced beekeeping.
By speaking in terms of seasons and seasonal tasks, I am creating a Seasonal Road Map so that no matter where you are located, this channel will be relevant to you!
I give you the WHEN, WHY and HOW of this amazing hobby. Want to take your beekeeping game to the next level or know how to get started without breaking the bank? I am going to show you how.
You get How-to videos, trouble-shooting, pest & disease management...and all of this plus more while using Sustainable Practices for the next generation of beekeepers who are going to 'Save the Bee.'
Yes! I'd love to get your thoughts on marketing beekeeping services. Additionally, I'm equally interested in the business/practice of bee removals, if that was something you did in the past. In southern California, live bee removal services are expensive, thus profitable. Thank you for covering your apiary prep for storms. In southern CA, we have three months of Santa Ana winds that can produce hurricane level wind gusts, albeit for a short duration. During that time, our hives were strapped in place to a corkscrew-like ground anchor that kept everything rock steady. The downside to that, it was a stairway for ants into the colony. Great content as always Jonathan! Glad your apiaries made it through Hurricane Helene.
Oh wow, what a unique experience where you live! Thanks for your feedback too, I always thought bee removals would be an excellent book all on its own. I do have some experience but not necessarily enough to write as an authority on. Here in Georgia, you have to have an 8-hour training course to get a license in order to do them. The training is not easy to find.
Excellent video, you will definitely kick butt next show. Hip replacement when good so far. Like you I have a very supportive Wife of 27 years next month. 👍
Hi Jonathan. Not sure why your video popped up in my feed but I’m glad it did! I wondered about the sassafras and if it had anything to do with adding moisture to your honey. I almost added that to the comments. Glad you’ve got that figured out! Drying the sassafras should work. I happen to like the taste of sassafras but with taste and aroma, we’re trained to only look for “off” odors or flavors. So even if a judge doesn’t care for the flavor, as long as we don’t detect smoke or a burnt flavor or soap from cleaning the jars, you’re good! Glad you entered the Honey Show! See you next year! Tim, AHSTC Honey Judge
Oh how cool Tim! Thanks for that information, that’s super helpful! It reminds me of the first time I made comb honey…I smoked the bees out of the super. The comb honey was NOT pleasant 😂🍯
Very good presentation. Well done. Your opinion... Would treating my hives every 7 days for four consecutive times work sufficiently? I find myself short of time...
Thanks! Okay so the timing of that treatment will have an effect but more often over the same 4 week period would be even better from my own experience of trying both. However, do the best you can with the time you have, I do the same. It doesn’t always work out the way we like but something is always better than nothing. You got this!🐝
Did he talk about the forager bee tremble when there aren’t enough receiving bees in the colony for the forager to deposit her nectar? I had never heard of trembling to get attention in the colony.
I have to ask the question your hive colours why are they the colour they are? My hives like yours are uniformed with every hive number being painted on my hive roofs as you only have one roof per a hive made sense.
