TRICKY Alaska Honey Bees | Starting Over!
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2023
- We will bring you along as we get our beehives ready for spring and summer here in Alaska. Beekeeping in Alaska has its own set of rules, and we want to share the process with you!
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This was so interesting! I learned so much and appreciate honey even more than before. I also love how the whole family came together to prepare the site for them. You are raising a lovely brood!
This would have to be one of my favourite videos that Mark does ( I loved the one he did two years ago as well), he is a natural born teacher. Thanks so much to Mark, Weston, and you, Lauren, for another brilliant video on the real Alaska Life 👍
There's an orange grove behind my apartment and I've watched the beekeepers set out boxes with bees. Let me tell you that the orange blossom honey is the absolute best. There are also cactus along the fence line and the people who pick the fruit cut down the cactus to take home to eat. I find the whole process very interesting. I enjoyed hearing first hand you and Mark breaking the process down for everyone to better understand
Excellent educational video. And great family work ethic. Lots of work but lots of rewards as well. Love that everyone gets involved. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks Michelle! We do our best to work and play together. I love it when the boys get involved.
I love learning about Alaska, and wow beekeeping in the snow! Love your boys and how they are always so eager to help. Have a blessed Sunday 🙏🏾😘
Thank you Tiffany! Glad to have you here with us.
What a great video. Thank you for taking the time to bring us along.
You’re welcome! So glad you enjoyed it!
Good Afternoon Hamm Family ❤️
Bees... hmmm... I have a love-hate relationship with bees. I love watching them at work collecting nectar, their importance to our environment, and the delicious honey they provide. I hate the memory, at age 10 or 11, when I accidentally ran into a natural hive while playing hide n seek with friends. So many stings. So much pain. A trip to the ER, but luckily not being allergic. The cats love watching them from the window, chattering up a storm; while Maggie has yet to learn that catching a bee in her mouth is painful and results in a swollen snoot and mouth, and a long Benadryl nap 🐝
We thought about raising bees, but decided against it. We have so many apiaries, and a beekeeping school, in our area and a co-op that carries local honey. We get our honey from an apiary up the road (mostly) and the co-op... delicious... and great for my allergies and for immune support. I love my honey both in its traditional syrupy form and the creamier form... and don't forget the honeycomb... a nice little treat. A piece of toasted bread, a little butter and a generous amount of honey is good for the taste-buds and the mood🍯
Love seeing all the work smarter not harder mindset and dedication preparing for the new arrival. Lots of busy bee work from you and the Alaska Boys proves you're all up to the task, including getting an area cleared out... big difference from the pix. Awesome job by you all 💪
Weston looks like he may have a new interest. So inquisitive and happy to lend a hand and make sure the bees are happy and content 😊
Thank you, Mark, for the lesson on bees and beekeeping; so informative. It's interesting to see and hear about how much work is involved in having a successful harvest... both by the bees and the beekeeper. As always, thank you, Lauren, for sharing another family adventure. The two of you are too cute together... like kids in a candy jar, but instead it's the honey jar. And, please Mark, no silly Dad jokes about bees 😁
Have a blessed and happy day. Yah's Blessings 🤗
P.S.: I'd love some of your honey harvest. Mmmm 😋
Thank You Lauren and Mark for the knowledge of Bees in Alaska ! They sure did work hard to dig out the place for the hives... great job guys ! Very Interesting .. can’t wait for updates on them . Have a good day to all !!
Hello Bridget! Glad you enjoyed all the info and spending time with us. Have a wonderful day!
Bees are such amazing little creatures!
Keep fully living the experiences, being present in the moments and cherishing the memories with your beautiful family Lauren🫶🏻🌈 🐝
They are really amazing creatures! I am always amazed. Thanks Tracie, I am so grateful for this little family of mine.
@@ThisAlaskaLife Maya Angelou spoke of a parent’s face lighting each time they see their child… we see yours light and the boys do too. They feel safe and thrive in that light🫶🏻
Thank you Lauren and Mark. What amazing information. I had no idea what the process was and how they produced. As always loved watching you and gaining information about Alaska
Thanks Pat! We are grateful to have you here to watch. Have a great weekend.
That was fascinating! Thanks for taking us through the whole process 🐝🐝🐝 I have to say I never appreciated the work involved before watching this-for the bee keepers & the bees !
A whole world of bees that we didn't realize either. Then Mark started having bees and we learned so much. I am excited to learn more with him this season.
Wow! So much I didn't know about bees and bee keeping. Very good info. Also, Loved the "this is the place" reference from yuor husband when you all found the spot for the bees.
Mark is good at keeping us all laughing, even when working hard. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing I I love honey
Lauren you look absolutely fantastic, your gym sessions are paying off 😊👍
Thanks!
Omg 😱 those bees in the car 🚘
A little scary right. Imagine what it is like in the airplane that brings them all up!
Thanks for sharing! Very informative and interesting! Good luck with your Bees!
Thanks Donna! We are having a good time, hope the bees cooperate.
Awesome video, so different, great to see. Thank you for sharing as I bet was a real task to film.❤
We enjoyed sharing the process! Thanks for watching!
This was SO interesting. Never dove so deep. The best kind of UA-cam channel!
Thank you for that! Try to do our best to entertain and inform!
Exciting, Mark great job on clearing snow.Lauren new adventure for you.
We are ready to tackle it as a team!
How interesting! Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for watching!!
There's so much that goes into bee keeping. I can't wait to follow the journey and see what happens. You can't beat good quality honey 🍯🐝
Thanks Leanne!
Did anyone else find the irony of the Honey Maid Graham Crackers stored on the shelf beside the bees in the garage...maybe a subtle little incentive for the bees. =o)
HAHA!! Just giving them some motivation!
I didn't know about honey bee not being in Alaska. It greats to learn this Bee's
Oh I’m so excited to watch this about bee’s. Yes keep us posted. 😊
We will! Thank you so much for watching!!
Great video, Mark and Lauren,thank you so much 😊
Thank you Kay! So happy to have you here with us!
I love how you share your knowledge and encourage your kids to join in. It is wonderful how everyone gets involved. You truly live the life of sustainability. Getting as much of your food supplies as possible directly from your environment. I really respect that. Thank you so much for taking such good care of the earth and each other.. May God continue to bless your family. Hello from Minnesota..🌎
Hi Annie! We really do try to involve the kids in as many things as possible and love when they jump in. We appreciate you being here cheering us along.
Fantastic video!!! I learned so much about bee keeping 💛🐝. Excited to see more this upcoming summer and fall!!🐝🐝💛🐝
Thanks Elizabeth. I will be sure to share updates throughout the summer.
I know I will never be doing bees so this is exciting for me to watch the progress of your new babies! Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks Barbara! We will be sure to share more throughout the summer.
Thank you both for the info on bees. I look forward to checking in on them in the future!
Thanks Sandra. We will be sure to keep you all updated through the summer.
I really enjoyed your Bee video learned so much and could see having bees is a big job. thank you for all the information and your knowledge good luck.
You all are way more adventurous than I am. I’ll continue to support a local honey stand at the farmers market. 😂❤️ Thanks for all the info.
Yes! It is a lot of work. Thank you for watching.
That vlog was an eye opener full of information. Maybe give away or sell your spare honey to local people who could do with it for health reasons eg hayfeaver or psoriasis.
I learned alot about bees today!! Thanks Mark for explaining it well! I love honey. Great video. Good luck with the bees! Have a great weekend!🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thanks Sue! Hope you have a wonderful weekend too.
Good job hamm family.. Good luck for a good bee season🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thank you so much. I hope its a good year for the bees.
Thanks for sharing. Hope y’all get lots of honey.
Thanks Tracy!
Wow. Thanks for sharing. Good luck. Very exciting✌️❤️🇺🇸
Thanks Charlene! We are excited to see how they do this year!
that was very interesting and informative,thanks for posting
You're welcome Linda! That is what we were going for, so I'm glad you enjoyed it!
A great reward for your efforts, yummy honey. Interesting video. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting!
Thanks for the knowledge of the bees in Alaska I enjoyed your videos your family is awesome
Thanks Martha! Glad to have you here.
This is fascinating, thank you for sharing it 😊
You're welcome!!
Bee's are amazing creatures, my daughter absolutely loves them, grows wildflowers every year so the Bee's have food sources, since she found out they endangered! She asked me since she watched this video with me, if you guys feel guilty knowing that so many Bee's die cause of Alaska cold weather, knowing you choose to bring them there and it not there normal home? Love your families positive attitude with the compact snow!
Hi Sarah. I am glad you enjoyed the video with your daughter. We do our best to keep the bees a live over the winter but its not a guarantee, even with the best beekeepers. We feel sad when they don't survive but we know that bees die even in perfect conditions of California. It's still always sad when a whole hive dies at once.
Very interesting never thought of Alaskan s having bees. 5hanks for sharing!!
There is a huge community of beekeepers here. Just have to learn how to make it work before you start!
Love this. Informative videos. Thank you much.
Thank you so much! Grateful to have you here.
Very interesting Lauren and Mark
Thanks Christina! We are grateful you're here.
The honey comb is delicious. Good luck with the bees.
Thanks Annette! We hope its a good season.
Thanks that was very informative..
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Your vlogs are so interesting. I really enjoy them.
Thanks!! That means a lot. We put a lot of time and effort into them.
I feel so lucky. Live in AZ. I have locally sourced honey delivered weekly 😊😊😊 Honey Hive Farms
Very interesting and educational.
Thanks Cindi!
Awesome information thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Yes!!!
Hello Ashley! Thanks for watching!! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Thank you for your informative video. We are beekeepers in south east Queensland, Australia. Our winter isn't really that cold, especially compared to yours. We don't have to winterize our bees as there is so many winter vegetables & tree blossoms to keep them going,,, & we don't have snow... Your video was so informative and interesting. We look forward to seeing more of how you keep your bees. Cheers, Kelcy & Bruce
Such different climates. Glad you enjoyed seeing a bit of how it goes here. We will be sure to follow up!
Finally something interesting about Alaskan life. Much better than watching you drive to Costco and shop. Will like to see more of this kind of projects. Won't watch shopping.
We have all sorts of videos for different people. Glad you enjoyed this one.
Hope y'all get lots of honey.
Good luck 🐝🐝🐝
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for sharing...that was so interesting...I live on North Carolina and some of our neighbors have hives...have never seen anything going on other than alot of bees around the opening..all the time...this is just so interesting...thanks again...😊
You're welcome! I am sure it is very different down in NC but a lot of the same principles apply!
More power to you all. I would never 😂. I about had a heart attack when they just put them in your car. Very interesting though!
Oh man! That is a strange feeling to have them in the car but thankfully they were really calm and we didn't even notice them.
I love your family! We’re now empty nesters and We just moved here last year. Watching your videos has actually helped us a little because figuring things out here has not been easy. But we’re managing.
I would love to know what things you have found difficult so I can address those in future videos. Feel free to email me thisalaskalifefamily@gmail.com
Nothing difficult about your videos… I’m saying we just moved to Wasilla last June and it’s been difficult figuring things out but your videos have helped
This is fascinating. Never seen it done before. Thanks for sharing. Hafa adai and love from the island of Guam 🌴❤🌴
Glad you enjoyed it! Have a wonderful weekend.
I really want to know what bee jokes mark was talking about 😂
I’m not sure! We were tired and getting giggly!
How exciting for you getting bees again. I love my bees. We live in northern bc Canada so we had to put a big electric fence around are as we have griz and black bears in our yards during the spring summer and fall.. good luck with them this year. 🐝🇨🇦 ps honey bees are not native to Canada either. Like you guys….our winters are very long and cold too.
Thanks Lyn! Sounds like we have very similar bee experiences. Thanks for coming along.
Our spring is still pretty cold and there is no natural food for them yet. Farmers will have to feed them until the weather improves. Not much out there for bears coming out of hibernation either.
It’s a tricky time for bees and bears and the poor moose! Spring is so close!!
Your video was amazing. I'm excited to see how your hives do. We can't have honey at my house because my granddaughter is allergic to honey and I'm allergic to bees but I think beekeeping is so fascinating
Glad you can watch from behind the screen. Thanks for watching with us!
I thought the marshmallow was so the bees accept the queen and get used to her , we have bees in Minnesota and that’s how we do it also
Do you get wax moths in Alaska? Your drawn comb looks to be in good shape. A good trick for removing your sugar water can is to use a big magnet. I just learned that this year and it's a game changer.
Finally caught a live ❤
It was nice to chat with you! Thanks for the thoughtful questions.
@@ThisAlaskaLife thank you for being such a responsive UA-camr, you really engage with your subscribers which is very rare. You and your family are amazing and I wish all the best for you all including miss Luna 😊
Drones insulate the hive , and the bottom of the cluster
Hi Lauren
Hello Anna! Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Different colors are seasonal. Early honey is light. Dark honey is fall honey.
Thanks for those insights! We always harvest in August but they always turn out so different.
Light or dark honey depends on the flowers they are feeding on , we also harvest later august , but color of honey is about the flowers not the time of year you harvest
I did not know Alaska does not have Honey Bees. So interesting. How do you keep the simple syrup (food)from freezing?
It is warm enough during the day and the boxes are insulated. Haven't had it freeze.
I live in Southern California and just got into bee keeping. I picked up my first set of bees about two weeks ago and I paid 180 for my set (10,000) bees.
So far all has gone well and I am enjoying them. The bees are very friendly haven’t had any issues yet.
I was told not to harvest any honey the first year. I find it interesting you will be harvesting your honey in August and being that you’ve done this before have taken classes I am wondering why we are told not to harvest until the fellowing year ?🤷🏻♀️
The first year in Alaska we got barely anything and then were not ready to winter them over so we harvested the honey. They may need that honey to survive and continue to build up the hive. Beekeeping in AK has it's own set of rules!!
I love honey, but seriously allergic to wasp's & Bee's, that I have to carry a epipen😮 but it was very interesting to watch x
Glad you can safely watch from behind the screen!
wow! you learn something every day☺ can you store them inn your garage next fall/winter?
Some people have dedicated buildings they successfully winter them over in. We do not have it set up for that. We will do our best to insulate them and hope they survive the winter.
You should do whipped honey
YUMMMM!!!!
So every year you have to reorder your entire everything?? There isn’t a way to maintain a small population in a 5 frame hive in a small barn and overwinter them?
Set in warm water it will melt delicious
YUM!
😊
Hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks for always hopping on and watching and commenting.
So do you have to get new bees every year or how long do they last?
i saw on Facebook or instagram someone who had crystallised honey they made it into whipped honey.
YUMM!!
double screen board, check out bob binnie bee keeper videos. hes a big honey seller in georgia. I am in Portland, so wet and cold, but not like alaska.
My the Lord Jesus blessings be with this family.
Thank you Donna.
That was very interesting. When will you strap the hives down? That also was alot of work. Good luck with the bees.
We will strap them down soon! Bears will be out soon as it warms up.
Great video! Very fascinating to learn so much about honey bees..silly question, do you encounter problems with bee poo on your cars? We had keepers near us once & all the cars in our neighborhood were getting poo'd on and it was hard to scrub off...I heard it can be bad for the paint.
That is an interesting question. I don't remember having them poop on our cars but I could see how that could be a problem if there were a lot of hives. I will keep an eye out this year.
The honey that have been crystallized put the whole jar in warm water to turn the honey back to there color.
We could but it is sooooo good the way it is. It also loses some valuable nutrients if you warm it up. Either way, it is amazing!
Set your hard honey jar in a pan of warm water on the stove and it will in time look like the syrup again.
Yes!
Lauren Mark and Boys love everything about all your Videos best ones on UA-cam love ❤️ just keep them coming I going to our little Costco it Quarter the size of yours xxx love can not wait and love watching yours (tell Mark you will go to Costco to get his sugar ) lo
Thanks Mandy. We appreciate the vote of confidence in our channel. Hope you had a good trip to Costco.
It’s this Tuesday coming I hopes I love going I wish our was as big as yours love to you all
The 25th
Wd it be helpful to have the boxes in a dog run? I don’t know anything about bears but wd it be protection? And chain link wd allow the Beas a way to come and go.
That is an idea! We used to have a dog run for our chickens but that has been many years. A little bear fence and some straps should do the trick.
Wow,that was a great video,I learned a lot about these amazing creatures.I have a question for you or Mark,If the queen dies ,does the whole colony die? Thanks ,Hi from Ontario🇨🇦🍯🇺🇸
If the queen dies and there is a new queen forming we will let it hatch, but that takes some time. We have had a queen die in the past and were thankfully able to buy a new queen and put it in the box.
Try putting an electric fence wire around your boxes to keep bear from destruction
We plan on it this year.
Bee keeping is a lot of work!! My husband loves honey, I’m not a fan !! Good luck !! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thanks! It's a fun and rewarding hobby for us!
After you harvest the honey do the Bees die or do they live on??
We can feed them honey and try to winter them over, but it is not a guarantee they will live. We do our best to winter them over.
@@ThisAlaskaLife Thank you for explaining it to me this is my first experience watching y’all bee harvest
What do you do with all the honey.
Eat it and share it! Keep it for food storage.
How long do the bees live?
That is a tricky question. A queen bee can live up to 5 years but typically 1-3 years. The spring bees worker bees live about 2-6 weeks. The Fall bees have to be tougher and can live up to 20 to get them through the winter. The drone ( boy bees) live up to 55 day. Probably more than you wanted to know but…there you have it.
Sounds like this honey will end up costing more than a jar from the grocery store. 🤣🤣🤣
Well, we can sell some and break even but the taste is SO superior!
@@ThisAlaskaLife that is so true! My grandson is stationed there and lives in your town so I asked about the pizza after seeing you and your son out on the town and he had been to one of them with his dad, our son! This is fun to watch! Thank you
Ahu ………..You missed a stop😂😅😅😂😊 jk
I have always wanted to keep bees 🐝 but I am severely allergic been in icu for a week for singular bee sting once and life flighted once from singular bee sting so husband and mom tell me I am not allowed to have any that is more than enough excitement for them those two experiences may you have an abundance of honey and wax
Oh my!! Probably not the hobby for you! Hope you can enjoy our process from the comfort of your home!
@@ThisAlaskaLife I definitely will 🥰
Can you put the gives on top of your house
We don't have a good place to do that, but some people can.
Just drive real slow lol
Yes!! Don't want to disturb those bees.