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Sustainable Beekeeping in Extreme Northern Climates

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Etienne Tardif explains his strategies for sustainably keeping and overwintering bees in Canada's Yukon Territories. Etienne draws on his experience and detailed research to expose many commonly held beliefs as myths, including winter cluster behavior, moisture management, ventilation, and winter food consumption. Northern climate beekeepers that adopt these strategies should expect their colonies to successfully overwinter.
Etienne's website is www.northof60b...
Etienne's RU-vid channel is / @etiennetardif6552
This video is an excerpt from Etienne's presentation to the Midnight Sun Bee Club in Anchorage, Alaska, on 2/13/2023.

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20 авг 2024

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@longarmsupplies Год назад

I haven't even finished listening to the entire video and I want to say again....I'm so glad I found this channel. I'm running those wooden boxes(in central Alberta) and one insulated layens hive. This lecture is teaching me why my layens hive(which was a late installed queen into a split, late July, if I remember right). It came through winter so strong and full of honey. The wooden boxes were insulated with alpaca duvet strip, then Typar on the outside to stop the wind. Sugar on the inner cover, then a box of wood shavings on top. Of 3 hives, I lost one to starvation and fed the heck out of the other two this spring. I'm going to have to run those wood boxes till I can build up my layens hive boxes to house my bees. Can anyone recommend where to get those sensors to monitor the hives? I'd sure love to implement some of your Alaska methods and keep records of the temps in the hives this winter.

@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping Год назад

You can order the BroodMinder temperature sensors online. The link is below. They are spendy, but really worth it in the long run. I'll be doing videos in July and early August about overwintering. broodminder.com/

@houstonsheltonbees814 Год назад

Thanks for sharing this 👍

@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping Год назад

Thanks. I'm hoping it's fun for folks from outside Alaska to see how we have to do it up here.

@houstonsheltonbees814 Год назад

@@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping it is. I try to take a little from everywhere if I can. Keep it up, thanks 👍 God bless

@DavidWilliams-wr4wb Год назад

I see you set your boxes up like I do minus the sensors , I used to run 1,500 colonies, I couldn’t afford the fancy stuff lol , but I’ve been in so many arguments with female bee keepers that have been keeping bees for 4.5 years and are pros lol example , I just made a request for some wool for insulation and instead of answering and being helpful it lead to an argument about why I don’t need to insulate my hives in my area , I told her I can have 10 boxes in the summer and only one very partially beards when it’s 100 Fahrenheit outside, because the bees can regulate air flow and you don’t have 3/4” sides radiating heat on your outer frames , she kept referring to This person telling her so , I said I’ve been keeping bees since 1971 and I will have live bees next spring while you are cleaning up your dead outs , sorry for venting, I’m having a hard time with these whipper snappers that got one of their hives out of the two that they own critiqueing my need for insulation in a hive 🤣

@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping Год назад

LOL, David, some folks just love to argue. Insulation keeps colonies cool in the South and warm in the North. There's even research showing insulated colonies produce more honey. One of the cool things about beekeeping is that there are so many ways to do it. One of the bad things about talking about beekeeping is that some people insist on pointing how you're doing it wrong (because it's not how they do it). Best of luck, vent any time, and good luck this year.

@DavidWilliams-wr4wb Год назад

@@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping everything you just said lol , I live on the east coast in southern Maryland by the way, pleasure to meet ya ! I subscribed because I like your style!! Thanks for sharing what you do , Dave

@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping Год назад

@@DavidWilliams-wr4wb Thanks so much. I really enjoy interacting with beeks from other places.

@DavidWilliams-wr4wb Год назад

@@anchoragebackyardbeekeeping you got it brother! I’m trying to get some colonies built back up , I started bee keeping in 1971 with my uncle /mentor/ boss who built an apiary up to 1,500 colonies for the families orchard that was 6 acres that backed up to another orchard of 600 acres and bees we’re always swarming back and forth , there were no mites , moths or beetles and you always had 10 new colonies every winter and not dead outs , bee keeping was amazing back then , my uncle’s apiary was sustained and built from 10 colonies back in 1940, we never bought bees , because we would trap swarms in Tennessee and bring them up here for new genetics . I developed an allergy from getting stung so many times in my career and then I had 6 kids and 4 grandkids and I’m barely 60 , and I decided a couple years ago I’m going to trap bees , keep them and I bought the first bees ever this season and between last years swarms and this year’s packages I have 8 colonies so far and I’m hoping the 4 traps I have out will do good and I’m buying two nucs soon because I want to start a Queen yard , there is a huge demand for queen’s in my part of the state, so here we go!! 🤓🙂