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Queen Bee Homestead
United States
Приєднався 3 бер 2018
Follow along as our little homestead grows! I love learning and teaching others as I go.
Adding a Second Tray to The Worm Factory 360
I'm about 75 weeks pregnant and finally putting the second tray on my Worm Factory 360! That's one of the things I love about vermicomposting - even a super pregnant person like myself can get it done!
Interested in starting with worms yourself? Consider my favorite supplier - Uncle Jim's Worm Farm! Want to also be awesome and support my channel? Use my affiliate link below! It won't cost you a cent more and I get a commission.
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Want to see when I first set up my worms? Click below!
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Want the follow-up of how I promptly killed my whole first batch of worms?🤦♀️ Click below!
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Thanks for watching!
Interested in starting with worms yourself? Consider my favorite supplier - Uncle Jim's Worm Farm! Want to also be awesome and support my channel? Use my affiliate link below! It won't cost you a cent more and I get a commission.
unclejimswormfarm.com/?affiliates=656
Want to see when I first set up my worms? Click below!
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Want the follow-up of how I promptly killed my whole first batch of worms?🤦♀️ Click below!
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Thanks for watching!
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Getting hives to produce COMB HONEY
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I'm attempting to produce comb honey for the first time! Watch as I set up and explain my process for getting hives to produce quality honeycomb. Want to keep up to date on all the things happening on the homestead? Join my newsletter! Click the link below to sign up: queenbeehomestead.ck.page/1a316bd972 You can also always check out my website: QueenBeeHomestead.com
Getting Bees From Nuc to Hive
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I got my 5 new nucs in! Hiving nucs is pretty straightforward, and I'm thankful I was able to find the queen for each one! This is year number 8 with bees, and I think nucs have become my favorite (I used to prefer packages!). If you're interested in getting started in beekeeping yourself, but not sure where to start, check out my blog post on getting started in beekeeping! queenbeehomestead.co...
I Killed All My Worms! (Learn From My Mistake)
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An update on my adventures in vermiculture. This week's lesson? How not to kill all your worms as soon as you get them 😅. Want to see the initial setup of the Worm Factory 360? Link below to watch my video! ua-cam.com/video/JuFEacsPGPU/v-deo.html Want to get started on raising your own worms? Consider using my affiliate link to Uncle Jim's Worm Farm below - It doesn't cost you a cent more and i...
Setting up a Brand New Worm Farm at 6 Months Pregnant!
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Being so pregnant, worm farming sounded like the perfect thing to work on for now. I'm super excited to get this new adventure going and share it with you! Want to get started with your own worms? The following link will bring you to Uncle Jim's Worm Farm - where I got all my supplies! unclejimswormfarm.com/?affiliates=656 This is an affiliate link and I will make a small commission, at no extr...
First Hive Inspection of the Year!
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It's spring in Western New York and I'm digging into my hives to find out why FIVE died on me, and how the live one is doing! Check me out: www.QueenBeeHomestead.com
Pulling Honey off Hives
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It's just before the goldenrod and other Fall nectar flow starts, so I'm taking the last of our summer honey off the hives. Can't wait to extract! www.QueenBeeHomestead.com
Moving Bees into a Flow Hive
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I'm so pumped about having a Flow Hive to use this year! Watch as I move some bees from standard 10 - frame equipment to some 8 - frame Flow equipment! The nectar flow this year has been pretty impressive, and I can't wait to see what our summer harvest looks like! QueenBeeHomestead.com Music is "Whistling All The Way Down" by Feet On Wood
What to do about BROOD in a super!
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We recently acquired two new hives - one is quite strong and had a super on it! When I first inspected the hive, I found brood in it, boo. So now, I'm going to go through it again and install a queen excluder! The bees were super busy in the week since I had last checked them. QueenBeeHomestead.com
Natural Varroa Mite Control
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Looking for something to limit the number and amount of chemicals you use in your hives? Me too! I decided to purchase some drone brood frames to reduce the amount of Varroa in my hives. You can always find more at: Queenbeehomestead.com Music is "Whistling All The Way Down" by Feet On Wood
Setting up For Free Bees
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I'm setting up a bait hive to entice swarms! I'm also putting a second deep on my hives and checking one of my hives. And a new thing for me - Drone brood frames for Varroa mite control! You can learn more at - QueenBeeHomestead.com My article on swarms - queenbeehomestead.com/how-to-get-free-bees/ Music is "Whistling All The Way Down" by Feet On Wood
Protecting Beehives From BEARS
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The last thing anyone wants is to go out to their apiary just to find it torn apart by a hungry bear! Bears can be stubborn, but if you act proactively and get an electric fence up BEFORE they find your tasty bees, you have a fighting chance. Learn more at: queenbeehomestead.com/keeping-bears-out-of-beehives Music is "Whistling All The Way Down" by Feet On Wood
How to Check Your New Beehives!
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You hived your packages last week- now you have the task of checking to make sure all is well! Watch as I go through my 4 new beehives and give some tips! You can learn more at: queenbeehomestead.com/how-to-check-on-your-new-hives/
Free food! Foraging Ramps is Easy
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You may have a bounty of free food in your backyard! Ramps (also known as wild leeks) are an easy-to-find, easy-to-identify foraged good that is absolutely delicious! A member of the onion family, they have a great flavor that is like a cross between onions and garlic. They can be found in many wooded areas of eastern North America. Look for their large flat leaves and distinctive onion smell. ...
How to Install a Package of Bees
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Getting packages of honey bees, but unsure how to get them in the hive? I can show you! Along with a couple of mishaps that may happen (first time a queen tried flying off on me!). queenbeehomestead.com/how-to-install-a-package-of-honey-bees/ queenbeehomestead.com/feeding-your-bees/
thanks i am a new bee keeper and have a lot to learn
Thank you. Informative video. We are getting ready to add our second tier as well.
Two years later now: I hope everything went well, worms and all. Cheers.
Where is tge Flohove?????
Thank you for sharing
Do u use plastic or metal queen excluders?
I use metal as I find them easier to clean.
Could you not see?
Glad to you vermicomposting, I also have the 360 and have for quite a number of yrs now. Keep those worms happy and they will repay you with "black Gold" . I like to freeze any potential food till Im ready to feed then, thaw and run thru my big mouth food processor and make a bokashi food mix , then story that in coffee cans as needed. Recently have gone to dry mixes along with the kitchen scraps. You will learn as you go.
Are you planning to put that back into the hive? You need to ensure that any mites are dead. Freeze the frame for a couple days before using it again. Let the birds clean it up too.
You're right! I don't put them back in the hive until after they've been in my deep freezer for at least a week 😊.
Cardboard for weeds - lay down flat cardboard where you don’t want weeds.
Hi Queen Bee, how did this go? i have a Flow Hive 2+ that i bought a few months ago. going into winter (Australia here) i bought a 5 frame Nuc last week and its been settling in. i;m going to transfer the Nuc to the Brood Box when the weather warms up.
What size box/frames…6 5/8”….or 9 1:8”….looks smaller…
hello from Kajun Homestead and Beekeeping new subscriber
The hive it's look fine
I have so many questions. What are the laws of keeping bees?
Thanks for your video … this helps a lot
Thanks Lady
Great video thanks for sharing :)
I'd like to buy a hive for my own purposes and please help me, how much one hive costs and how to order, thank you in advance I live in Europe Serbia and I need a phone number for Europe so I can write on warsapp because I don't speak English and I have an interpretation of the phone there
Nice job with this video! Thanks- much appreciated…
Thank you!
😮😮Wow
Nice
where did you get the solar charger?
This one I got from Tractor Supply. I highly recommend Premier 1 now!
Where do you live? I am viêt Nam
I live in New York state (no where near the city, close to Niagara Falls).
You are verry wonderful
Aw, thank you!
Beautiful. We plan to try out getting our girls working on comb honey next year!
Good luck! ❤
@@queenbeehomestead thank you. Beautiful baby bump by the way. I love how you had to carefully shimmy through the boxes haha! When I was pregnant with my 4th I could almost touch one side of a door frame with my belly with my back on the other side of the door frame! 😲
Haha, yes! And thank you 😊. She thankfully came a week early and I will hopefully be back out to my hives soon- with more wiggle room!
@@queenbeehomestead congratulations!!
Nice information ❤️ Love from naggar kullu manali Hp 👍❤️🙏💐
Interesting, I see the flow roof, but the boxes do not look like they came from Flow. I have a Flow Hive 2 and love it.
The hive was a wedding gift! The one box is directly from Flow. But as the people didn't know hives need two deeps, I bought a second one. The Flow super isn't shown since it wasn't time to collect honey yet.
Oh wow, I agree! The handles don't appear to be the flow logo. Not that it matters at all it's just interesting. Did you end up getting a flow harvest?
I wonder if this is an original flow hive and the 2's that we have have the different look to them.
The flow hive 1 did not have the fancy handles on the brood boxes - that was brought in with the flow hive 2 (also, there's nothing special about flow hive brood boxes- they are exactly the same as any langstroth hive box). And yes, I got about 20 pounds of honey. The flow supers are pretty cool!
@@queenbeehomestead I noticed that my flow hive 2 gabled roof did not fit on my mann lake boxes, so the flow equipment could matter for that. But yes, really it is essentially the same!
this is very brutal process to check varroa miltes👎
To each their own, the Varroa Destructor mite is a huge issue and I try to use less chemicals in my hives when possible.
You must have not seen other peoples videos of them sucking up 50 bees and drowning them in alcohol. I’d rather do this method.
What did you do to make an entrance to the hives?
So what I do is join the two ends of the fence somewhere convenient to go in. Then when I want to get to the hives, I turn off the fence energizer and lift out the end fence post. They are step-in, so it's quite easy! There are also fancy electric net gates you can buy, but they're pricey, and it's easier for me in small set ups to just move a post. Thanks for watching!
Do I have to report the bees that came to my house, I want to keep them.
Laws on keeping bees vary by state (and even town!). A very helpful resource can be a local beekeeping group! You can find them on Facebook or contact your local agriculture extension office for help 😊. Good luck!!
Very nice inspection.
Thank you!
Nice!
Thanks!
good vid
Thank you!
This is SO cool! Love your channel!
Thank you so much!!
So interesting! I had no idea that chemicals and mites were part of beekeeping. I always learn something new when I come to your channel.
Yes, the Varroa mite is a huge scourge to beekeepers right now!
Oh goodness! The way you look so close at the sections with your face right in there! This is really cool to see it so close up, since I would never be able to get that close myself.
I love doing it so much!
that gives me the heebee jeebees!
Haha, I guess stinging insects aren't for everyone!
Learn something every day! We called them leeks.
Yes, they are also commonly called wild leeks!
Great job Tara! We learned about bees on a field trip so this was cool to see!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.