I've got to dig in deep! The worst Dearth i have EVER seen!
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Hi everyone, first video in over a week, mostly because there nothing exciting happening here at the moment, `its all born a bit doom and gloom beekeeping wise but other things have been progressing on the building front. Internal additions should be starting in a few months, Grant forms all filed and awaiting decisions.
beekeeping wise ive been feeding hugely just to keep them alive until the next summer flow starts. hoping for some decent weather.
Hope you enjoy the video.
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I really appreciate this kind of video. The realities of professional Beekeeping.
its been a bad spring, honey wise for me in Devon too , it does get stressful, and my poor beekeeping is starting to show itself in the form of swarms today 😃. Fingers crossed for the grant, and the summer flow.
You are investing in your bees this year with all the sugar. As you said we had plenty of rain and three major nectar sources all coming into flower in two weeks. If the rain clears the temperature will go into the mid twenty’s. Man just felt something crawling in my suit on my neck to be precise. A fricking scorpion.
scary
Just went out and all the Blackberry is flowering on the south facing banks.. Whooo Hooo.
Keep the faith Richard! Blessings to you!🙏🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
We have been unusually wet for the Month of May here in Ohio, midwest part of the USA. Half of our spring flow washed away. Time to pull honey, make splits and raise Queens and looks like feed, feed, feed. Already planning for 2025. Push forward Richard.
Sirdo, Ooi! Just continue with everything and the rewards is on its way to you.
I am now retired from beekeeping and are now a official organic pitahaya a.k.a. (dragon fruit farmer) so good luck to you and I'll looking at you 😊.
Oh man we had a hot winter without rain including now we don’t have flowers, so the cost of feeding the bees rockets sky high. Greetings from ibiza
Hi Richard, not much forage on the Isle of Wight, don’t think I will get any spring honey this year. Not took anything off any colony yet, but having to feed some of them. The colonies that had winter stores left have virtually used all that as well. Good luck with the grants. Hopefully a better summer coming for us all.
Hi Barry , yes there’s not much hiding the truth as to how bad this season has been so far! We’re all hoping that things pick up in the next couple of weeks. Otherwise this year will be pretty much a right-off. This so far, is the worst year I’ve ever experienced and other beekeepers with more years under their veils are saying it’s the worst start they have ever experienced l.
Thanks for your message. Good luck too! 😎🫶😃
Here in the South of England we are way down due to the poor Spring weather. Oilseed rape has been delivering when the bees can get to it but rain and cold has kept them in the hives half of the time. Just taken my spring crop from my 6 hives and only 3 of them have yielded a small cop - 1 super each of capped honey leaving a super at maybe 70% full for the bees over the June Gap. Here’s hoping for a stable Summer but who knows?
Hei Richard, a great beekeeper who is my neighbour always says:
If only one of your hives has two or three supers the problem is you. ( about manipulation ) but if all your hives aren't supers, the problem is outside.( lack of nectar ).
You have to wait for the next nectar flow.
Be brave Richard.
ha definitely an outside problem. everyone i speak too says the same. its a shockingly nectar poor spring.
I'm in East Sussex, very similar to you. Mine have been very slowly bringing in nectar and pollen. They are building big colonies. 1 1/2 miles away, friends havent stopped feeding since the winter yet.
The weather patterns that you describe are what I have had locally for the past four seasons, constant overcast through the whole spring and into summer, little to no nectar coming in, the year before last I fed all summer long, and didn't bother pulling any honey, not that there was any, This fall I lost close to 50% of my hives, no sign of disease, plenty of sugar water in the feeders, they simply absconded, no dead bees to talk of just empty boxes.
crapp!!
@@richardnoel3141 My son does a lot of pollination and about 500km north they didn't have the overcast and he had a good season on Almonds, Stone fruit and citrus, before he moved to eucalyptus forests, to finish off.
Same situation here in northeastern Italy (and really in most of the peninsula). Worst year so far. Currently feeding bees, with approximately a month worth of harvest ahead of us before we have to remove supers and start focusing on treatments.
Brilliant thank you Richard
Hi Richard wish you a great summer honey crop
You’re well, glad to hear from you this morning. When I saw your post at first it scared me but listening you got this. Dotting all your i’s and crossing your t’s lovely. Blessings to you and your family ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pulled my honey last week. Poor crop this Spring.
Thank you so much indeed your continues beekeeping vedious. I hsve one question for you.
Which hive is better for honey production: the AZ hive or the standard Langstroth hive?
We had an excellent March and early April, lots of swarms here in NE Indiana. May turned cold and wet so having to feed new swarms and overwintered colonies are going backward. It is what it is 😢
Hopefully the weather gets better and you will see the flow. Most of the time we just need to get the colonies strong and healthy and wait for the flow. Obviously the difference with commercial beekeeping is that you have to feed the family and pay the bills with honey sales.
plant some seven sons brother, also some shrubs that bloom in summer and fall, best wishes brother
Love the honey house
Hope your gonna be busy in a month extracting lots of honey..
The weather here in ireland isnt the best either
У нас липа тоже на подходе.дай Бог будем с мёдом! Удачи вам!👍🤝
The world is full Off dreamers. You just got to Work with what you have and get on with it.
By the way, that's a fierce mower, I'm clearing today and that would have done the job.
Sounds like alot of govt beauracracy
indeed it is, but the grants are worth fighting for.
Blue sky's here in the Milands UK. Chestnut has been and gone here.
Hope your checking for stores?
thanks for putting the camera down alot better
Stay strong bro
We are in a solar minimum, and I wonder if this is the problem. Shorter growing days. Not good Richard.
Strange year had no swarming this year so far just fined queen cells tore down by the bees Loads of pollen coming in from the brambles now but the flow here usually starts second week of June Shropshire. Interesting how similar beekeeping is in Brittany to UK?
Most of the uk is about 2 weeks behind my operation here in terms of flowers opening
FJB Richard
So is your honey house available for public use or is the public just paying for it?
hilarious!!! The investment is a scheme available in Europe for farmers to help them bring their buildings up to spec in which ever area they choose to develop their business. For me its a honey house. For your info, i have to pay all the money up front and then i claim it back through the business, which then will return the 35% .So its by no way a 100% cash gift. If i sell the business within the next 10 years i have to repay the grant pro rata. There are a lot of terms and conditions to adhere too. Just saying! I also have to be fully registered and in time this grant will also help me be able to employ someone because i will have an "up to spec facility". In euros the grants are available for all types of business and the aims are to bring businesses up to the best spec to protect employees and the environment. i cannot apply for ant more grants after this one for the next 7 years. thats why this all took so long because i had to try and obtain the max on my investment.
@@richardnoel3141 oh I know how it works and while I hate the system I do not fault you for taking advantage of it, I probably would too. Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar but if Caesar is willing to give to you then take every penny you can get.
its called Climate engineering , research it , clouds arfe here to stay , rain and cold , research it
The nugget of gold, for me is at about 3:52. ".......you have to react to what's accutually happening...." That's the key. Evaluate the reality and act on that evidence! Science baby!!!! There's a lot of other nuggets in here too. I like the way ya think!!
🙏🙏🙏 thanks 😊