Rich dark and stinky. I’ve been doing buckwheat for 4 years now. The French love it here. It’s my favourite too. You will see !! Highest value honey for us here.
Look at all that sticky. Do you think part of it is giving all of them that same few day brood break? So they are all more uniform? Yep building Winter nests here, it's that time of year in the North. Thanks for sharing Ian, Blessed Days...
You must be having a bunch of Japanese knotweed around it belongs to a buckwheat family and yields dark nectar, goldenrod is not dark its golden light in color if not mixed with anything else
New york state buckwheat was king.inthe finger lakes area it was ererywhere. Hundreds of hives could be kept in one spot and make a huge crop. Now its rare to see any.oh to go back.
How Are your mite counts different from colonies that had formic vs not ? I like it for a fall treatment and it didn’t mess up the brood during treatment
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 😃 What you're saying about buckwheat people here in NZ used to say about manuka honey especially up north 😂 I know beekeeper's who would race to pull their hives out of manuka blocks to keep it out of their supers of bush honey and most people who did keep them in a manuka honey block did it for extra winter bee food and now it's our top honey. 😁🤦 Personally 🎉 I still think it's garbage 😂 and great bee food, kamahi and blue borage honey is much better, I'd love to have an apairy in a kamahi block but I don't and thyme honey which is our main nectar producing plant in this part of central Otago is considered rubbish and too strong tasting in New Zealand😅 so very few people want it. Five years time we'll probably have the same thing happen to thyme honey as happened to manuka honey 😂 I don't care, my bee's love it👍😃
Hi, can you explain why you dont want Buckwheat honey in the brood boxes. Is it because the bees are back filling, thus shrink the brood area for the queen? If it is just a back filling issue, isnt sugar syrup.going to do the same? Or is there another reason that I missed you explaining on the video. Thanks.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thanks for replying. Is your answer based on your own observations or a study? If a study, can you site that info. If observation, can you expand on your statement. I plant fall Buckwheat for my honey bees, so Im curious if I am causing a problem I didn't know about. Thanks
Very heavy on minerals and terrible winter feed. Smells like mouse piss. Terrible flavor imo. Yet I can't make enough of it every year because some people love it.
If you are that concerned about the Buckwheat backfill, why don't you throw some labor at them, use those pallets and move them to a different yard, the night after you strip boxes?
10 minutes of gold video but these last 2 seconds… priceless.
Ian's daughter's smile is so charming. Lucky man to have such nice kids.
Rich dark and stinky. I’ve been doing buckwheat for 4 years now. The French love it here. It’s my favourite too. You will see !! Highest value honey for us here.
It’s so nice to see you smiling and happy.
Love seeing it all come together! Family time is the best!
Alice in chains - the perfect soundtrack for extracting.
All the very best to you and your family. I hope your bees winter well. Kind regards,
Tony Marsh, UK.
Bueno día vamos con esa miel 😅😀😀😀😎☕☕👏👏👏👏que lindos los videos
Do you recover most of the swarms that issue from your colonies? Or do you just let them fly into the woods to fend for themselves?
Look at all that sticky.
Do you think part of it is giving all of them that same few day brood break? So they are all more uniform?
Yep building Winter nests here, it's that time of year in the North. Thanks for sharing Ian, Blessed Days...
In the early 60's i lived In Carnduff area and we got very dark buckwheat honey fr manitoba .
To this day its one of my favorites
That's similar to our dark Goldenrod honey. It stinks while they're drying it down. Thanks Ian!
You must be having a bunch of Japanese knotweed around it belongs to a buckwheat family and yields dark nectar, goldenrod is not dark its golden light in color if not mixed with anything else
Summer losses here with swarming that didn't requeen. Crazy regular rains. After 3 years of dry Springs all the wet was welcome at first.
I like pure buckwheat honey 🍯.
New york state buckwheat was king.inthe finger lakes area it was ererywhere. Hundreds of hives could be kept in one spot and make a huge crop. Now its rare to see any.oh to go back.
In Lithuania we also extracting buckwheat honey, my favourite one.
My wife came home and she was told that a family friend's husband died the next day from a bee sting. Wow
How Are your mite counts different from colonies that had formic vs not ? I like it for a fall treatment and it didn’t mess up the brood during treatment
Yea formic is hard on colonies
What harm does the Buckwheat honey do vs. sugar syrup?
Plugs up the bees gut late in winter
But it sells for $10.xx per pound . Extract it
You sound like Mr. Crabs counting his money.
Ian can you please describe the pollen cake mix?
I’m surprised you don’t use the slotted kowen knives.
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 😃 What you're saying about buckwheat people here in NZ used to say about manuka honey especially up north 😂 I know beekeeper's who would race to pull their hives out of manuka blocks to keep it out of their supers of bush honey and most people who did keep them in a manuka honey block did it for extra winter bee food and now it's our top honey. 😁🤦 Personally 🎉 I still think it's garbage 😂 and great bee food, kamahi and blue borage honey is much better, I'd love to have an apairy in a kamahi block but I don't and thyme honey which is our main nectar producing plant in this part of central Otago is considered rubbish and too strong tasting in New Zealand😅 so very few people want it. Five years time we'll probably have the same thing happen to thyme honey as happened to manuka honey 😂 I don't care, my bee's love it👍😃
Buckwheat makes tasty Mead
Buckwheat honey.. it taste different. Bit of a marmite honey...
good
Please tell me I didnt miss the queen me joke 😂
Hi, can you explain why you dont want Buckwheat honey in the brood boxes. Is it because the bees are back filling, thus shrink the brood area for the queen? If it is just a back filling issue, isnt sugar syrup.going to do the same? Or is there another reason that I missed you explaining on the video. Thanks.
Buckwheat honey holds impurities that can cause harm later in winter
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thanks for replying. Is your answer based on your own observations or a study? If a study, can you site that info. If observation, can you expand on your statement. I plant fall Buckwheat for my honey bees, so Im curious if I am causing a problem I didn't know about. Thanks
@@GrandpaBees experience, and old passed along experience
Ar you going to have buckwheat honey for sale online ? Ive never tasted it.
What’s wrong with the honey why is it not good winter food ? Do you have any bear issues ?
Heavy in impurities , plugs up the bees guts through winter ,
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog what about goldenrod and asters are they ok to winter in ?
@@aaronparis4714 keep in mind my winters are 5-6 months
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog so are mine 😅I’m just in Nova Scotia just maybe now as cold sometimes I’m a good old Nova Scotia farm boy myself 😂
Very heavy on minerals and terrible winter feed. Smells like mouse piss. Terrible flavor imo. Yet I can't make enough of it every year because some people love it.
Blessing and curse
Sell Buckwheat retail at a premium
Why are you choosing not to open feed pollen substitute?
The bees will not take open dry supplement during pollen flows of any kind
So you’re saying formic was a success?
Trade offs. Subject to conditions and how the consequences are managed
If you are that concerned about the Buckwheat backfill, why don't you throw some labor at them, use those pallets and move them to a different yard, the night after you strip boxes?
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