Who's Ready for Spring at John's Farm 

Thanks, Brice! It will be Spring up there pretty soon. Just hang on a little bit longer. Thanks for continuing to support our channel. We're always happy to hear from you up there in NH.

We are, Wes. We've been enjoying YOUR videos! You've been really knocking them out lately. Keep it up.

Thanks for watching, John!

Thank you! We're still learning even though this is our 4th season. Hope they have been helpful to you.

He is. But in his defense, that was the first time Dan has ever worked the bees. Roy was trying to keep him from getting stung and from getting the bees all riled up.

Those are all 14-frame hives in this video. We have 3 of the 19-frame hives in other locations.

@@randsbees do the 14 frames seem to be enough for the bees to have enough to over winter and possibly have extra honey for you I’m just getting into bee keeping

@jerrymcmahan2855 Yes. We normally reduce the number of frames down to 6 or 7 for the winter. That's leaving at least 3 frames of honey for the bees, which has been enough for ours. Last year, we had about 7 gallons of honey that we harvested from the frames we removed from the hives. The 19-frame hives are great if you want to do in-hive splits. You can put half of your brood frames and resources on one side of the box and half on the other with a divider board between them. You don't have to find the queen. The bees will make a new queen on the side without a queen. We tried this a couple of times with limited success.

@@randsbees ok thanks a lot I wasn’t sure I saw the 14 frame ones on horizontal hive and was wondering if they were actually big enough to house the bees and possibly still have enough to harvest a little honey