Why I am Planting Borage [ HONEY BEES & HERBALISM ] 

Borage got me into bee keeping, love it!

I planted borage a few years back. My girls loved it and its a beautiful flower. Also it makes a beautiful garnish for salads.

Very interesting! I've never heard of or seen borage before. It is really cool looking! I really like the idea of the borage infused honey to help with asthma! If you end up making that, I'll buy some from you! 👍

I love, love, love this series!!!! Thank you for taking us on your journey 💖!!!! Also Valentine's day I am 20 weeks along with our rainbow baby!!!! We don't have gifts for each other but I told him our rainbow baby is our gift lol.

Borage is also great for PMS.

Love borage! And in my neck of the woods you only have to plant it once....and then it politely travels all around the garden each year 🥰

I love it....I grew a few parents the first year...then every year after they come back as a huge BORAGE reunion. The sweet little flowers are delicious. It transplants well too.

I’m planting a bunch of 🐝borage too! I’m also starting milkweed for the butterflies 🦋 even though it won’t flower until it’s second year. I’m winter sowing them both. If you don’t want to wait winter sow them. 😊

Borago officinals (Borage), it's melliferous value is 500kg/he (500 kilogram per hectare). The colour of Borage honey according to the Pfund colour grading system is white grey when liquid; white when crystallized. It has slow crystallization rate

Awesome! I bought the same seed pkg from Hoss...I had some borage previously but it died so restarting, can't wait to compare mine with yours ❤

Love borage for the bees.

I love Borage too and really enjoy watching the Honey Bees working it. Lots of excellent things about Borage!

My chickens love it ❤

To digress for a moment..... love your hair! So pretty, all of you. Stay well!

Nice to see you again. We are 10* here tonight. It is hard to think about gardens, but you bring hope. God Bless.

Great video, it's good to see some of the younger people doing it right. You young lady are one of the few who seem to understand that we have to look at the overall picture. Once again great video. May God continue Bless you and yours.

I love this BeeKeeper!

I had never heard of Borage before. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this. I look forward to your recipes in the future and I'm sure your ladies will enjoy their bee bread!

I love borage! My daughter calls them flowersallad😇 Bees love them. I will sow more of them. Even the white kind. Lot's of love from Sweden!🥰

if you grow Comfrey be warned...it will take over. ;-) bees also love it and the leaves make great compost though and is great for minor cuts. Never tried Borage.

I am really enjoying your videos and your outlook on life in general and your lifestyle.

Castle Hives told me about you, so excited to see another beekeeper and homesteader.

Great plant! And very good Medicinal! 😉🌱

You are looking gorgeous 😍 Thank you for all you do ❤️

Thank you for all you do to help us.

Thanks for this information, my wife and I might try to plant some of this in our garden this year! Great Video! 🙏🏻😇👍🏻🙌🏻🐝🐝🐝🐝

Good info... Gonna give it a try and I like the way it looks also. Thanks for sharing....Larry

Thank you for sharing! Great information! We will be definitely planting borage for our bees and us too!

Nice. Thanks for the plant info.

I just learned about borage two days ago. I have already purchased seeds for my garden this year.

I grew some in our front yard garden, it's a very pretty landscape plant as well

Great video and fabulous tips

Obrigada pelas lições que compartilha conosco, além de aprendermos sobre as abelhas. I enjoy learning English, because I"m iniciant.... Thanks, by São Paulo. Brasil.

Bees love borage! We plant about 7-8 30’ rows of borage just for the bees. At 7000’, it’s just coming on. When I pluck off a borage flower, I can always find some tiny yellow thrips (I think?). I’ve found a few of them in hives also, so I assume they’ve hitched a ride with the bees. Don’t really know what to make of them, borage thrives in my hard, but tilled clay soil. Love your videos! Thanks for the info on borage infused honey - I'm going to try that!

I've already got my Borage seeds. Will show them next month.

Just ordered Borage and their wildflower mix for the Southeast, come on spring.

Awww, we’ll, I wish it was more cold tolerant. It would have been a great addition to the cover crop mix for pest control

We have self-heal (prunella vulgaris) that grows wild here in the Houston area. While it won’t grow wild where you are, it would grow in a green house or indoors. I have several thousand seeds and would be happy to share.

As you say Borage is a prolific plant and the honeybees love it. Never tried the flowers or young leaves myself, have to try them this year. It fascinates me that in North America the 'H' in herb does not appear to be pronounced, it's silent, whereas here in England it is pronounced.

For bees , sainfain bees love it . Thank You

I never heard the word apothecary before just now. You never stop learning.

Are you ready for this next winter storm ? I love the highlights in your hair . I will try planting some Borage flowers.

I have heard borage is also a great companion to strawberries.

So, I'm thinking about planting Borage as a cover crop in one of my gardens since I heard it makes a good cover crop and the bees are supposed to like them, so it would be a three fold crop. Did you end up planting this, and If so, how did they grow?

Love your winter format! I do have a question for you and your subscribers. We have a small farm and we have a drainage ditch that borders our property. We have seeded native wildflowers late last summer along the banks. What else would be good to plant for bees and hummingbirds? I'm posting this late after work and probably won't get many suggestions.

I’ve heard that honeybees go for the most predominant pollen that is in bloom and stick with that pollen until depleted and another pollen becomes predominant? How do you know that they will even use this particular plant to make their honey. I’m a new , first year, two colony beekeeper , not being critical, just trying to learn. I also have asthma, so I’m interested in trying this as well.

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Now that I know about your hornworm issues you had, did borage help at all?

I wonder how the honey will taste or I should say the difference in taste from last year to this year ?

You have also manuka?

It does look like you know the secret when you look to the left.

Borage is very high in pyrrolizidine alkaloids and liver toxicity from them is cumulative. I would avoid internal consumption of the leaves.

Guess I'll settle for third. .

I have good amount of honey production. Wanna export .

I don't understand why you keep looking to your left .

First . . LoL