@@bobbyhempel1513 In the U.S they are required to call it a “blend”. However many companies have been caught not labeling it as such. If your curious about it look up “Honey Laundering”.
Been so anxious to get a flow hive, their a lil expensive for me rn but will be worth it. Lookin forward to seeing more info on the hive and how it works.
The idea of such a hive comes from Australia. There is a video on YT showing how it works. For a long time, the Chinese make copies that are much cheaper and can be bought on ebay.
@@bodyofhope Besides being a very expensive choice its not at all a very practical choice. A standard hive with brood boxes on the bottom and adding supers on top allows you more flexibility in managing the hive. When a good flow is going on bees can fill multiple supers with honey in a short time . With the flow hive only a small so called flow super is filled leaving the bees no more room to advance further up into more frames to keep producing and keep them from swarming with more abundant space. Also when it comes to managing the hive a standard hive will allow you to pull honey frames in or out if needed to move to another hive if they are in need. Also trying to remove the flow chamber to get into the brood boxes can be more challenging due to the weight or size. The flow hive works to a hobbyist but as a normal beekeeper its not practical and alot harder to manage the bees to be productive especially doing splits and so forth. For the cost difference and management of multiple hives in an apiary its not a good choice. For a 1 or 2 hive operation it will fit the purpose fine, but once your hive populates tremendously as all will, you still have to split the hives to stop any swarms and manage them closely.. So there lies the problem again, what do you do with the splits?? Unless you have supers to put on them later your spending a fortune on another flow hive!! It all comes to to practicality and management to have a productive apiary… And 99% of all beekeepers will not deal with a flow hive its more trouble than its worth and not easy to manage as a normal hive when in a apiary..
Flow hives have hinges in their pre made comb, so when its ready to harvest, they open up and the honey flows directly down into a jar, like she was doing. You don't have to take the comb out though I don't think... the point of it is so you don't have to destroy their wax comb to get the honey, and it's a LOT easier to harvest 😊
@@toriquill1505 how does that work with the caps on the individual cells, though? Like I suppose that the honey just drips down into the interior of the frame through the base of each cell, but that would just leave an empty cell capped with wax, so do the bees eventually realize that the cells are empty and uncap/refill them themselves, or do you need to remove the caps after harvest?
@@pizzlerot2730 the caps are torn when you harvest them. There's a line straight down the center of the hexagon that you shift to start the flow, which makes the honey cascade down in a zigzag, so there's a tear down the center of the cap. The bees notice that they're open and just fill it back up 😊
@@toriquill1505 ohh okay gotcha. I think I can picture it but I'll have to go look for an image of these frames, sounds like a really nifty system though. Growing up I would help my dad harvest a dozen or so hives each year, and boy is it a ton of work, we spent many a late night in the honeyhouse sweating our butts off in that Deep South, early nighttime, near-100% humidity + >90° heat 🥵🥵🥵... I would've given my right arm for these frames back then, let me tell you 😂
This is such an informative Chanel. Your voice is calming. Your script is interesting. A recipe for the acorn pancakes, please Best wishes in your endeavors. Judy
Smoke doesn't clam them It causes their attention to be drawn from potential predators. It's not the smoke itself that calms them, smoke causes them to immediately consume honey in fear of a natural fire burning a forest and they are too distracted/full on honey they don't aggressively defend their hive from predators
That is a common myth. The smoke confuses their pheromones, which is how the bees communicate with each other, like their alarm pheromones they would emit if something (like a bear) was invading the hive. So in essence, it does calm them by scrambling their chemical signals, so they cannot communicate well.
Of course it’s the best honey EVER!! Your love & care along with your lovely little 🐝🐝bees’ hard work combined into the most beautiful & tastiest honey! 🍯Congratulations 🐝🍯💛
Honey tastes different depending on the flowers. I had drumstick honey once. It had the flavour of the drumstick flower. Ooo I've also tried coconut flower honey it had a slight bitter taste, the best one so far
I really hope that you're grateful to the bees it seems like you're doing what you can to take care of them just make sure you plant as many flowers as possible to give them enough variety. Bees are wonder. And we owe them so much
The point of the flow hive is you're supposed to be able to extract the honey from a tap, without removing frames or upsetting the bees at all. That's why you have that little tube to pour the honey down. Did it not come with the parts for the spout?
Your bees are so big! This is awesome. I miss mt little 5 gal bucket garden I used to keep im from of my rv. The park didn't say anything to me about it so I need to get back to it. I had so many lovely bees and I swear it was the same 142 years that would come to my window every single morning when I would pull up my blinds. And I believe that it was him that I found dead on my very first step when you open the door. But when you have bees and a garden now you have to have a bird Bath or something of that nature even a bowl with pebbles and water to allow the bees a place to cool down and take a drink and so on😂😂
Honey tastes completely different when different flowers are used. My friend's litchee orchard has some hives for pollination, and the litchee honey is completely amazing.
KEEP GOING!! Bee keeping will spill over into many other things like, raising chickens, ducks, rabbits, earthworms, ladybugs, monarchs, song birds, bats, etc. next thing you know, you’ve created paradise all around you!!!……sound familiar?
I’ve been wanting to try some acorn recipes for some time, but I guess I thought you had to follow the Indians method of processing which included boiling the acorns to get the tannins out. If I can ever find some cat tails growing in some clean water, I’ve been reading about cattail muffins since I was a boy in the old boys life Boy Scout magazine.
I dont think its just you. I think its because the honey is fresh, unfiltered and uncooked. Plus like other people said it's the flowers your bees eat from. Maybe they didn't eat from clovers and ate from a tastier flower.
Bee keepers are some of the most important people on the planet. Bees have been dying off in droves for years and it’s people like these who are doing everything they can to keep these bees alive… even if it’s for honey, the environmental impact is insane. Please keep keeping bees 🐝
In North America at least, it’s actually our native bees that are in greater need of help. Honeybees are an introduced species, and can even have some deleterious effects on native bee populations. I’m not against raising honeybees, but they aren’t the bees that need saving in this context.
High fat seed plants yield more "rich" honey. Like sunflowers and corn fields make a buttery honey and small seeded wold flower fields make more "aeromatic" tart honeys.
The bees that make honey do. Learning about native American and solidarity bees is a treat too. They’re a lot more interesting and varied than domestic honeybees. Each species has their own unique quirks :D Masons, Miners, and Longhorns are my general favorites
Little bacch? You got $100 worth of Honey right there. Not so little. 😊 I don't think I've ever been through that much honey in 1 year. I guess if I had my own production the backyard I would use more of it. 🥰
I wish I could still eat honey. I ate some with biscuits when I was pregnant with my son and it swoll my throat closed almost completely shut. I don't know what changed I had been eating it since age 3.
I am really jealous of flow hives. However the price of the hive and the price of a queen/starter is enough that it's not something I'm ready to do without way more planning. Until then, I'll just keep watching to see if I want to dive in.
No, the bees are still dying. Native American bees. Honeybees are domesticated, they had a disease scare, but were never in danger. Feral and poorly placed captive honeybees still spread disease to American bees and take their few remaining resources.
@@amirahp1690 Yea, although researching and planting native wildflowers, and discontinuing personal use of pesticides/herbicides/etc. can support local bee populations. Leaving out some old wood, twigs, plant stems for carpenters to nest. A blank patch of clay/sand rich dirt for diggers. Mud and cracked stone for masons, etc. etc. Sadly, like most ecological issues big corporations are most responsible. (through habitat loss, global warming, pollution and agricultural pesticide/herbicide use, and to a lesser extent than the other reasons is the wide spread use and release of honeybees) But I think it’s worth it for us individuals to at least try, because a difference can at least be made on the local scale! Sunflowers are my go-to plant. They’re one of the easiest and cheapest north American plants to find in stores and they attract a pretty wide variety of bees! I’d definitely recommend researching more obscure plants though, since those are the ones what need their seeds spread the most.
Sorry for the paragraph 😅 On the same note- Wasps, moths, beetles and flies are also great pollinators that could use human support, they’re also often overlooked.
When you smoke the bees before opening up their hive to extract the honey, does the smoke affect the taste of the honey? Just curious as we don’t eat honey, so we have no way of knowing.
I mean the stuff in stores is generally garbage, if you havent bought from a quality source before that would be why it tastes so much better then anything you've had before
