Hi, I am 12 y/o and just started beekeeping. Just this last week I caught 3 swarms and am super excited. I plan to use a Bee Escape when getting ready to harvest honey. I hope I get a good amount this year but am trying to increase my number of hives. Thanks for the great video. Sid
This was one of the videos I watched, when beekeeping was just a dream of a girl in a dorm room. Now I have three hives and I'm living the dream! :) Can't wait for my first honey harvest
I really appreciate your effort in making this video. The best part, is you stayed on point and didn’t corrupt with crazy music! Please share more of your bee keeping experiences.
In the old country Palestine we used to use bee wax to seal apricot jam jars , after filling the jam jars and allowing the jam to cool down we used to melt the wax and pour about a quarter-inch of wax on top of the jam , this method of preservation was good enough to preserve apricot jam until the next season comes along .
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions. I learned as much from the comment section as the video. I have 60 acres in the country and think I'm going to start making some honey..
Thank you for this video. This is probably one of the best examples of honey extraction and filtering I've seen so far. My neighbor is in the process of building his first hives and I hope to be able to help him build the hives along with giving them some follow-on support during their first year, which is why I'm watching these videos. Excellent job on the explanations and the honey extraction process, I've learned A LOT from your video.
Thanks for your kind words. We have learned a lot form this video, our first year, over the next two (there are additional videos with harvest #2 and #3. Glad to help, and if you have any questions, just send them and I will answer them the best I can.
I retire next week 31 December 2019...after 28yrs of law enforcement service.....been talking about Bee Keeping and honey producing as a hobby for a few years now....Man I am excited to start.
Hawaiian80882 congrats on retirement. You should become a bee keeper. Pick any hobby you ever wanted and just do it. One day I will be a hobby blacksmith. Maybe drive in a demo derby once and rescue donkeys and old dogs. I’m thinking of practicing this too very soon. But law enforcement for 28 years?!? I think you deserve to do something fun and crazy. Don’t ever live in your comfort zone, just know where it is at all times. Lol. Best of luck. You know what? Become a bee keeper and video the beginning of you doing it and put it on RU-vid!! Man I’d watch that.
My Dad (a police man) will be retired next year. He loves farming. This morning he thought about bee husbandrying. I will recommend your channel so he can learn. Thank you! 💖👍
It is fun. We just started our 6th season. For the first time we decided to do two harvests instead of one (End of May and Early August). Still bottling, but it looks like we got around 150 lbs. Our friends can't get enough of it...
This is got to be the best beekeeping video I've seen yet. I've been looking into it for a while now and this is by far been the most detailed and accurate one that I can say I've seen. Congratulations on that. And you and your friends have great setups. And I like the way that you can get far away from the bees and go to your friend's house to do the actual pulling of the honey. Where is bees aren't going to be an issue. Thank you very much for the information and video.
Thank you for your kind words. Our friends do have a great setup - they purchased one of those tough sheds, wired it for electricity, plus the equipment. However, they have 10 colonies within 10 feet of the entrance to the shed, so there are lots of bees around. As long as you don't dawdle too much or leave honey out somewhere, the bees are hardly noticeable. Most of the credit on the video goes to the narrative of my wife. She is much more detailed than I am. This third year coming up, when I make my third year harvest video, I am going to include lots of responses to questions. Beekeeping is a lot of fun. Hopefully you will try it out!
Brook Hill Honey - Mr. G's Honeybees unfortunately I'm disabled so everything I do takes much longer than it would a normal person as you can normal person could go out and work and have money and afford these things to buy where is I have to wait months and months and months to get a few pieces but I'm definitely interested and all natural and healthy things and honey is definitely one of the best all natural things that there is. So thank you and thank your wife.
See if you can find a local beekeeping club in your area. In our local area, our club keeps a number of hives and they are always happy to allow people to help. Beekeeping isn't an inexpensive hobby, we are fortunate because harvesting equipment would have added several thousand dollars more. Hopefully things can work out for you and you can get some bees. Best of luck!
We do put down a disposable ground cloth, but everything gets sticky. We are very lucky. This is our friend's honey house. They have about 8 hives and they spent a boatload of money to set this up and they graciously let us use it. I am thinking about buying my own extractor because it is so much more convenient at your own house and you can harvest multiple times easily instead of all at once on a single day. Should be harvesting year 3 in the next few weeks. Lots of work! Will post the new video.
This is a very awesome video. 40 plus years ago I had 2 hives. Then I moved into town and couldn't take them. Now I am back in the country, forever, and want to get more. Before when I had them someone would come do everything you did in this video for me. This time I want to do it all myself. So this was a very informative video. I knew about filters and extractors but never saw them in action. I will subscribe to your channel and go through your videos.
Great process. Especially, letting the bees clean up the wax and honey! very smart.. energy efficient and working together with the bees. best vid iv come across so far. love it. thanks for sharing :)
Thanks. This was one of the first videos I did and I didn't know how to edit yet. I feel a bit bad for the long dead spaces in the video...glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your kind words.
Great video! Hi from Belarus bee's forests! 👍👍👍✊🙏 I'm to bee keeping and found this very practical and informative. I'm realizing that this is a complex "hobby" with a huge amount of information to learn and assimilate. Thank you for taking the time to share.
I am not in the honey business but I have to say I have found your video very interesting and relaxing to watch the way you guys created your tools was very creative and I see that your stations are very clean so kudos to you and much success💪👍
I love honey from the agriculture areas of the Central Valley in California. I can never get enough honey sold from the farms when I drive up there....when I buy my house I want to do some honey harvesting. Honey so sweet and better than store bought. Fresh honey is the way to go...
Best of luck!. Look for a local beekeeping club. Many times you can get lots of extra mentoring. Beware! There are about 10 opinions for every beekeeping solution...
That is my favorite part of the harvest, and mind boggling. The sticky, honey dipped wax trimmings, end up as flaky, dry wax pieces. It is amazing no matter how many times I see it.
Honey is so sweet. I hope one day to have a bee hive! You make it look easy to do. Anything to help our bee population grow and get back to before mite numbers. Fourty nine pounds is a ton of honey! Great for you!!!💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸
That is beautiful! There is something special about harvesting your own honey. We have 2 hives. 1 we bought in September the other we did our first cut out in November. I am hoping they both grow this spring and make surplus honey for us!
Fascinating. God sure knew what he was doing when he created bees! The hard work, dedication and intelligence of the bees from making the wax and honey start to finish is nothing short of a miracle. I never knew how exactly it was all done. Thank you for sharing! I always wanted to know just how the wax was harvested also. Amazing how the bees clean it all up. Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good... :-D
Best comment ever! That extractor is also a part of the new NASA INTERSTELLAR PROJECT. Greetings from Germany and a happy new jear. 3 ..2.. 1.. lift off . . .
So well done thank you so much. Just an idea maybe reheat the knife so it keeps cutting more easily. Great job! What an incredible miracle how those tiny little bees make such perfect honeycombs - absolute miracle of God’s creation!
i could watch you guys shake bees off of those boxes all day. this is so weird and so interesting... i love watching different lifestyles and types of work/hobbies
its amazing how much work actually goes into getting honey. no wonder why many traditional harvesters don't like the new flow invention. but i must say cam definitely not cut out to go the traditional way. great job btw.
Typically when you harvest, you don't use smoke unless you want smoke flavored honey. However, when you inspect or work with the bees, a little smoke is good because it keeps the bees calmer by inhibiting their communication (alarm). They communicate through scent/phermones.
Exactly the beauty of nature just unimaginable. Worms poo= lovely soil or dirt Munure = to beautiful roses and flours Cows dung used for so fuel economy and fertilisers and flooring. Amazing how the creator of all this does not allow us to waste .
‘There emerges from their bellies a drink (Honey), varying in colours, in which there is a healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.’ - Quran 16:69
Also, most of what we absorb from what we eat is vomited up from our own bacterial colonies. What’s nice though, is this process acts as a filter and protects us. The microorganisms or bugs take the brunt of the unhealthy toxins and bacteria with them and leave a much more healthily digested product. The nectar they bring in before it is brought down in moisture content and put through the enzymatic process of the bee is awful. I mean, it’s definitely not inedible, just an acquired taste. It’s full of all types of minerals and vitamins that make it taste super bitter. Also, probably has a good helping of bacteria and potential toxins from plants humans can’t eat. There are many colonies in China notorious for their toxic honey, unfortunately those bees do not filter out the toxins. Does supposedly make for an interesting experience if digested in moderation, haha. But you’re right my friend, nature is amazing. I love how intelligently it is designed yet artistically it moves. It’s truly something of immense beauty.
Amazing! I never knew you could let the bees clean up the last of the honey left on the comb and the cappings. That is so cool! The beautiful white cappings are the absolute best wax quality. I have purchased that grade for cosmetic use. It's pretty pricey. It also would have been the grade used in church candles.
We kept some for ourselves and sold the rest. In our year 2 and year 3 videos, we harvested over a 120 lbs both years and also did the same. People go crazy over it. Don't expect to make money beekeeping unless you get a lot more colonies. Also, it is easier to make money selling bees than it is to make money selling honey.
Yeah - hard to believe that this video was six years ago. If people don't see our mistakes and our learnings, I don't think the videos are as helpful, nor as interesting...We have learned a lot over the last six years.
This is wonderful!!!! Thank you for sharing so many details of the process. Question: What do you do with the beeswax cake at the end??? Sell it? Use it for something???
You can make candles. You can also sell it back to equipment manufactures and they use it to make wax foundation (for frames). We plan to use it to make some lip gloss, but we keep talking about it but haven't done it yet. Maybe after this season!
We will! We have four years of wax, soon to be our fifth harvest in about a month. We will make a video of the harvest, and then hopefully make some lip balm as well as some candles.
2:01 in the morning watching this in nyc not knowing a damn thing about bees and I got to go to school tomorrow but hey I’m here might as well enjoy it.
Yeah the White Is the capping and the yellow is the rest of The wax but if you melt It in one Of those huge melter pots they sell for Tons of wax to be melted you will actually get four to five different colors The white or Creamy white a dark Golden yellow A Brownish Kind of Color then lighter shades of yellow it's so cool to Watch all this Stuff love the videos For Sure Just found y'alls channel
You can do it! At first, when you are learning it is good to go in and inspect bees each weekend, but after a few years, we don't spend nearly as much time now that we have learned from practice. Find a local beekeepers club. Many have mentoring programs to help you learn.
