Second Year Beekeeper Honey Harvest -- 125+ POUNDS!!
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2022
- WOW, when they say you get a lot more honey your second year beekeeping they are NOT kidding! In total we have gotten over 160lbs of honey from our bees this year (our second year as beekeepers), AND we were able to leave all 7 colonies a nice honey cap for overwintering. Proud of our bees!!
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THANK YOU for your thoughts and prayers for our bees and other farm animals during this Siberian Cold Front!! The front has passed and I believe all the colonies survived it. They have a long winter ahead still as I'm sure their numbers took a pretty major hit. Continued prayers appreciated, we'd really like to get most of the colonies (if not all) through winter!!
It was sooo cold, for soooo long here in western SD, (alt: 6,000 ft.) Incredible. If I ever do get bees, I'm gonna keep them in the (unheated) greenhouse over winter. That was NUTS!
Do you ship your honey???
@@janalauderman when we have excess I do!
I wanted to show my young daughters how honey is collected and we found your channel. Keep up the great content!
Welcome to the channel!
Hello Heather. So glad all is as well as can be. I hope you are having a wonderful week
Thank you Nollie!! We are having a restful week and hope you are too!!♡♡
CONGRATULATIONS!! That was an amazing amount of honey your bees produced!!! Bees are just the most amazing little creatures!!! It's good to hear your hives faired well through the severe cold front!! I truly hope that we never have to experience another weather system so cold!!! Thanks for sharing your harvest with us!!! Stay safe!!!🐝🍯
Once in a generation they say, which hopefully means we won't see another like it but who knows!!♡♡
@@SageandStoneHomestead Let’s hope only once!!! I really feel bad for those south of us that don’t know how to prepare and weather through such a storm!!! At least here in Kentucky we know what preparations are necessary for the cold!
Yes we do!!♡♡
I’m glad everyone’s farms have held down in that weather, our pipes froze but husband fixed it immediately. So thankful ❤
Beautiful honey as well sage and stone
Wow how did he fix it? It's awesome when you know where the frozen pipe/blockage is!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead he climbed under the house with a heater and found the frozen spot. Thankfully he’s good at stuff like that lol
@@dirtroaddestiny that's so awesome!!
that was so awesome to watch!!!!!!!!!!! Levi gets super props for spinning all that, my arm was tired just watching. Congratulations!
He had to switch arms halfway through !! It was a workout!!
Buckwheat honey is best for coffee - in my opinion 😊
Glad they are ok, and that is a lot! Good job and enjoy the harvest ❤
Feel better Lety!! Thinking of you!♡♡
@@SageandStoneHomestead 🙏
I put honey in my homemade tea. I like coffee but I like it more on the bidder end so it doesn’t get honey
What a beautiful harvest!
Thanks!!♡♡
I love honey
Me too!!♡♡
Congrats on all the honey! What a haul! I've got some of the parts for a hive and not sure if I'll get to bees in 2023. Maybe. Fun video Heather! Thanks for taking us along! Cheers & Congrats!
Bees are so amazing!! You should do it!!
Do you happen to have a steel cookie sheet? I found out that traditional gingerbread was made in molds and wax was brushed in before the dough was pressed in so it wouldn't stick. I used wax to thin coat my cookie sheet when I made gingerbread and the cookies were so amazing! I've used it in my cast iron too, but I forget what u was making. You can make cast iron conditioning bars, come to think of it.
That's so Cool!! No I don't have steel cookie sheets, just the stoneware and my cast iron griddle that has a flat side.
@@SageandStoneHomestead you probably could use the griddle. Or we could make plans 😏
I usually make a cafecito with coffee, cinnamon, milk (almond) and honey.
Oh CINNAMON would really help the flavors go together!! Thank you!!
Oh the morning cafecito I'm not a fan of cinnamon and coffee but as a newer bee keeper I love the honey my bees are collecting and the hive smells amazing
Hello:) I’m not always a honey in my coffee either but I find when I use 2 teaspoons of sugar, I’d replace it with 1 teaspoon of honey. Not as strong I find.
That is super helpful!!!
Thanks for sharing your honey 🍯 processing. My homeschool kiddos enjoyed this video. Have you tried lip balm and chapstick? Maybe even hard lotion bar as well with the wax.
I've been mulling over the idea of a lotion bar to make with our goats milk too!! Thanks so much for watching!♡♡
I like honey in tea with lemon.
In tea and on fresh bread is how I consume honey most often!! So good. ♡♡♡
We got our first hive this yr. We chose to leave what honey they had stored for them this winter. We also fed them a couple weeks ago for extra food security. Looking forward to that first harvest next yr, Lord willing!
That's a great plan!! Our bees gave us all this plus about 45lbs earlier in the year AND they all have a honey super on them for winter!! They were so productive!! The second year is definitely worth looking forward to!!
I make chapstick with beeswax. Course I have to buy mine, but if I had it from my hives, I’d be so happy.
Smart!!!
That was a really awesome honey harvest! Thanks for sharing :D
Thanks!! We are thrilled with the harvest! Thanks for watching!!♡♡
can crystalize honey to make sugar. tends to work better if you're trying to sweeten drinks or baking etc
I only like honey in tea. Sugar and cream in coffee!
That's me too!!
Beeswax boot grease!
Oh, smart!!!
Nice! It's always so exciting to extract honey!
It really is! ❤️🐝❤️
I love your videos , youre such a pleasent lady ! Thank you for the education. I plan on doing this myself .
Thank you so much!
Awesome to watch
Thank you!!💕
Great video as always heather I just love your channel. Always learning for you. Honey harvest is always so relaxing to watch ..I do have a question.. are u selling any of your beautiful Honey other then locally I live in Ohio lol but I would love to get my hands on some fresh raw honey lol.. Thank for sharing with us .
Email me!!! I need to get bottles that I would feel confident shipping!
@@SageandStoneHomestead i sure will. Thank you so so much.
I use honey in my tea but never have coffee. It just isn’t something that seems to go together in my opinion.
Bees wax earplugs would be a good idea. I’ve heard they’re much more comfortable than the foam or plastic types in the stores.
That's a good idea!!!
I like honey in tea but have not try in coffee yet 😊
Let me know what you think if you do try it!
WoW just WoW! I'm not a honey/coffee person,but honey/tea is my go to everytime.Levi has the spinning down to a fine science,I'm guessing from loading the belts for the saws,hogs & ma deuce's. Beeswax is the Best for candles,they produce negative ions in the air & leave no residuals on the walls & ceilings,ie..No soot to clean up.Congrats for the harvest,That is ALOT of Honey! I was almost drooling watching your processing,lol! Pure Deliciousness! My thoughts & prayers are still active for Y'all! Cheers!!
Thank you!! I'm pretty excited to make the candles!!
I missed this one..:) Your bees are happy. You ❤
They are happy bees for sure!! ♥♥
Regarding honey in coffee, if you warm your creamer and add the honey to it until it dissolves, it may improve the coffee experience. I have done this with my non-dairy homemade creamers, but have not yet tried it with goat's milk/cream. And with beeswax, I've made solid lotion bars, lip balm, salve, candles, wax melts, coated thin fabric to make reusable wraps (used much like plastic cling film), and to cap jelly/jam when we ran out of lids. (Out of an abundance of caution, these were only stored in the fridge, but my great-aunt "swore by" using parafin lids...)
I've wanted to do a solid lotion bar!!! Do you have a favorite recipe you'd be willing to share?
Remember that you should not use a metal spoon, when dip your your honey
quick scooping is unlikely to cause corrosion or metal leeching :)
Waoo amazing ❤❤
What a palaver. I've just harvested 7 flow frames (from 3 hives) it took about 2 hours to get 3kg per frame straight into the jars (it was 29 C at the time). To compare and extrapolating to 26 frames - ( translating to archaic measurements :) ). that is 78 kg = 172 pounds. My washing up was 3 little tubes, I can't see any squished dead bees and my jars are at least 5 different colours. Admittedly I don't have the wax from these frames as the bees will deal with that, but I don't use it anyway as I don't like it (and if I wanted it, I can get frames from elsewhere and do it the old fashioned messy way).
Yes they are expensive but I love love love mine and well worth the investment so I don't do all that work. Also as I'm not homogenising the honey, I get all the different flavours. Best bit - no harm to my busy bees and they weren't even angry at me. (this time)
In a couple of weeks I'll be harvesting another 6-7 frames for hopefully another 20 ish kg. Over the year my frames produce at least 3 harvests - but that depends on your climate and flowering. I just wouldn't want to do that much through the old fashioned method.
We have a flow super and I do not like it. I much prefer this traditional way of extraction. To each their own, it's wonderful we have options.
I learned loads- thanks for making. Have you ever tried the log hive before?
No I have not
Yes honey I the coffee but very little.
I need to put less probably!!
Great video! I've found that adding a small pinch of kosher salt with the honey and coffee turns the flavor into more of a salted caramel. Definite improvement on honey alone. Also, have you tried making beeswax wraps for use like plastic wrap? I've been wanting to try that myself.
Great tip with the salt!! I'll have to try that. I haven't made beeswax wraps yet but it's on my "to make" list!!
Add a pinch of Cinnamon a tablespoon of honey and cream to your liking. Makes a nice coffee.
thank You!!!
I like Honey in my Oatmeal.
Yum!!
I don't mind honey in my coffee if I feel like I want it sweet, but I usually just take my coffee black or with cream & maybe some cinnamon and/or cayenne pepper. Thanks for a great video. That's really helpful, to see how the honey extraction process works!
Cayenne!! That's interesting ! I'll have to tell hubby about that one, thanks!
@@SageandStoneHomestead The cayenne is supposed to improve circulation, plus I like the taste in my coffee. It's only cayenne & habanero; peppers like jalapeño are a different family, I guess. It does appear to work.
add lavendar dried buds, cream , and honey , good coffee bar style drink
good if use a hand held Japan style stone grinder for coffee beans
in a pour over drip funnel with paper filter.
filter paper supposedly catches bad cholesterol versus steel strainer
use filtered water 🌸🌼🌻 love the hive comb video...neat seeing wax cap removal
Sounds yummy!
Do you love having bee's??
We are going to try to catch a swarm this year.
We tested to see if there might be bee's last year.
And it seems we do. So we going to set up for catching one this year.
We will see.
I'm glad you are putting up the swarm playlist. I need all the help I can get.
Swarms are SO FUN!!!! I hope you catch one!! We love keeping bees.
Love honey in my coffee love it.
Do you just do honey and coffee and that's it?
You can make solid cologne and beard balm with the extra bee's wax.
I'll have to look up recipes! Thank you!
Great video! Haven't tried honey in my coffee usually drink it black, but this would be worth trying as I love honey! If I had access to plenty of bees wax, I would definitely make so many candles! I think they are so luxurious! Enjoy your bees!
I'm really excited to make the candles!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead please show us your collection when you do!
Okay!!♡♡
Your honey looks absolutely delicious! Wish I lived close enough to purchase a jar or 2!! I can feel for Levi turning that crank!!! I've done it myself!! Not a job for wimps!! 😉
I have a book I think you would love & could really use:
SUPER FORMULAS by Elaine C White. How to make more than 360 useful products that contain honey & beeswax.
It is amazing! I used many of the recipes & ideas when I had bees.
Very glad you are all doing well after the frigid weather. Wouldn't it be nice if winter were over now!? Take care & God bless!
I just looked it up on thrift books & it's still available!!! Less than $10!!
I'm going to get it!! Thank you!!♡♡♡
Not sure if this recipe is in the book but you could make some wooden spoon butter, of course good for bowls and cutting boards. Thank you Heather and Merry anne for praying for mr big wattles. He is starting to show slight improvements. The blisters,infection and swelling are going down(slowly but its progress) he kept chattering to me when i walked past and he managed to eat a few bites by himself yesterday, i soaked some food in electrolytes and held it up on a spoon for him so his wattles wouldn't hit the floor when he tried to eat. I told him he was not going back outside till it got warm and that i may get so used to him being inside i may not want to take him back out. Have a beautiful day and may blessings be upon you both❤🐓
Wow you did great. I am not a coffee drinker but I have used honey in my tea and love it but I can't afford honey lately I am now homeless living out of my car with my husband and dog. I am so glad our kids are with a friend because we live in Rhode Island and the last few nights the temperature has gotten down to single digits. I thought I wasn't going to make it to see the sun come up. We don't have enough blankets to keep us warm and I can't go to a shelter because they don't allow pets and I would be separated from my husband and I have bad anxiety and depression. We lost our home alittle over 2 and half years ago to a fire and at the time we owned our home for almost 13 years and about 6 months before the fire our home owners insurance was dropped and we were never notified. So after the fire we couldn't pay out of pocket to fix our home we tried we used all our savings on the supplies and we were paying $ 120.00 a night for a hotel for me and the kids so we ended up losing our home. We been renting a house that was over $ 1,500 a month and the landlord sold the house and the new owners at first wanted us to stay and pay him rent but not even 3 weeks ago he changed his mind and we had to rent a uhal and a storage unit so that's why we are homeless living in our car. The prices in R.I. are so high and I need to have atleast 3 bedrooms. I am praying that we find something soon because I am too old to be living in my car (43) and I want my family together again.
Many prayers to you!!
can you share more about your bee boxes? I like that they are plastic.. where did you get all of your supplies..
I get a lot of my stuff locally at a place called The Bee Barn, but I also shop online at Lappees and BetterBee. I think they are both in NY. The plastic frames are my favorite. They are really easy to manage and the bees take to them well! They are triple waxed.
Wonder if you can take off the handle of the spinning machine and attach a drill?
You could!
I’ve seen people make lip balm out of the wax
Yes!! So many great uses. We use it in salves and candles too.
Any chance you have links to your supplies that you used in this video? Storage boxes, cerated knives, pick, etc?
I do not, but the storage boxes are from Hive Butler and the other tools are from Mann Lake
That's absolutely amazing! I would so be buying that honey 🤤. Honey in coffee 🤔 never heard of that. I put it in my tea but that's about it.
Tea and on bread is what I do most!! Some recipes too
@@SageandStoneHomestead yes! I use in bread recipes and I love me some pb and honey sandwiches! I no longer do carbs though.... I miss them but honestly it's easy and I feel much better. I will have one again I'm sure 🤣. Sooooo good! Oh and I use honey in tinctures! It's great! I made fermented garlic honey too! I think it's almost a year now. It will go down real smooth!
I need to try that!!
Have you use bees wax polish for your furniture its used on natural wood to water proof and protect wood furniture maybe UA-cam how to make bees wax polish
I'm not one for polishing furniture, but that's definitely a great use for the wax! We tend to use it for body products though we have used the wax to polish deer antler and bone jewelry.
i was wondering were did you get the boxes your cutting the comb off it looks like a 2 piece set i like
Yes! This is from Hive Butler! hivebutler.com/collections/frontpage/products/hive-butler-uncapping-tank
I really want to have bees 🐝 but not only is my yard small my husband’s not too enthusiastic 😅 so for now I will just support the locals. Several of the people that keep bees in my area have said that they don’t have any left. What time of year do you typically do this process? And is it only once a year. I’m wondering so that I can start looking for local honey at the right time. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
We have kept bees 2 years and both years we didn't get around to processing honey until January!! Usually it's a late summer or fall project for many. ♡
How to you clean that spinning drum machine?
We leave it out for the bees to take the honey and then soap and water with a hose :)
Great harvest! Good demonstration of the refractometer, but considering that the vast majority of the honey was capped I wouldn't have been shy about including the frame that was largely uncapped. As a rule of thumb I want to see at least 3/4 of the cells capped so your one frame would have been a tiny portion overall. But "when in doubt, leave it out" and feeding it back to the bees is a good option, too.
As for honey in coffee, I'm typically a black coffee drinker but after my 1st bout of C19 I couldn't take the flavor. I'd just take a spoonful of honey and stir it in to add some sweetness - crystallized honey was great for this. Strangely, my 2nd round of C19 seemed to reset my taste buds and I'm back to black coffee now. 🤷♂
My smell was messed up for 18 MONTHS after we got it. If it was supposed to smell bad it smelled like garlic scrambled eggs. It was so confusing and I still haven't had garlic scrambled eggs since LOL
I was definitely worried about ruining the whole batch so the bees get that one! It makes sense that the one 21% frame would probably not take the whole rest of the other 26 frames above 19. Some of the honey I tested was at 17.5%!!
Beeswax deodorant and chap stick!!
Ah!! I'm really interested in the deodorant!!
Or beeswax candles!!!! 😊😊😊🥰🥰🥰
Beeswax Suggestion..CHAPSTICK….me and my sister in law buys the beeswax chapstick like crazy in bulk on Amazon…my sister in law uses it so much she sleeps with it in her pocket kmsl 🤣😂
Haha it definitely sounds like she really loves it!! I found kits to make Chapstick in my beekeeping catalog!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Thats great, hopefully you decide to make some because I will try them and if they work well for us I will stock up with you. 😊
I'm with you. Coffee and honey is a not so much for me. It's just wrong.
It seems wrong to me too but a lot of people love it! I'm going to try adding cinnamon!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead try sitting cinnamon in to of the grounds before brewing.. yum!
Yes!!!♡♡
Congrats,on bountiful honey👏 👏 👏,
Thank you!!♡♡
Definitely not a job for an impatient person! That honey looks delicious. Levi needs to chuck that spinner handle up a drill 😂 or maybe he needed the arm workout.
We don't think the drill has enough variable control, I think it will move too fast!! Maybe not!
@@SageandStoneHomestead makes sense!
Lovely video, thanks for sharing. How often you get a harvest? Every year? Every month? Every 3 weeks?
In theory. This year we chose to leave everything for the bees! We still have 2.5 gallons from last year and the bees needed it .
@@SageandStoneHomestead thanks for the reply. I think I couldn't transfer my question well enough. My actual question is that how much honey you usually get from each hive on each harvest? I see that you harvested around 125 lbs of honey from 28 frames or say 3 boxes. So how long did it take for the bees to make that much of honey? In other words when you put back the empty frames into the hives, how long will you wait for the next harvest for the approximately same amount of honey?
We only harvest in fall. The bees sometimes need honey taken off during the spring flow but usually I opt to add more boxes vs take any off. How fast they fill a box depends greatly on the size of the colony. We have had them fill up an 8 frame medium in a week before!
@@SageandStoneHomestead I got it. Thank you so much for the replies. By the way, I'm a new subscriber.
Welcome to the channel! ♥
I would suggest trying some different types of coffee
Maybe! It's still pretty flowery and I may like a fall honey in the coffee as opposed to spring honey. We have a lot of elderflower around and it's great honey just odd in coffee.
Try honey in your coffee black
I will! Thank you!!
Can the beeswax be collected and utilized?
I should have just waited. You just explained about wanting to try beeswax candles. Good luck. That would be cool.
Haha no problem! I haven't used the wax yet but I hope to soon!
Wouldt it be better to cut downwards??
Not sure!! I don't know if it matters.
I want to be your neighbor! Lol
That would be so fun, we would have a whole homesteading little community!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead yes!! We need to gather fellow homesteaders and have a meet up!
A lot of stuff is organized on Facebook and I often miss it because of that. There's been a couple things that I've wanted to attend and was notified in time but they were too far away!! IDK if I could manage organizing anything myself lol
@@SageandStoneHomestead I bet with help something could be organized! Doesn’t have to be hundreds of people or an expensive extravaganza
What's the flower source of the honey?
Anything within 5 miles of our house. This was harvested in fall too and probably has honey from spring thru fall in it. "Wildflower" honey I suppose.
@@SageandStoneHomestead oh I see. Great video 👍
I subscribed to your Channel. 😀
@@samuelaguilar9668 welcome!!
How much mam
The honey is $15 on our website SageAndStoneHomestead.com
lip balm
There’s no “open honey” - there’s nectar and until it’s capped it’s not honey
Incorrect. Honey is honey at 19% moisture or below regardless if it's had a wax capping or not.
Lol. Should have got the electric spinner! What a waste of time and your SO looks THRILLED! 😂😂😂
Um thanks? We actually enjoyed this process a lot. We don't have a lot of honey to process every year and the money for an electric extractor is better spent elsewhere on our farm. My husband was exited about the honey, I'm not sure what you were reading into there. Be kind. People can get a lot of joy and fulfillment out of something you deem a waste of time.
Plastic frames ??? UGGGG
?? Nobody is forcing plastic frames onto you?
@@SageandStoneHomestead plastic frames harbor SHB’s in the little pockets Hated them for that lol
@@trappeddownriver4047 wooden frames give places for wax moth larvae. I guess we each have our own reasons for what we do, yes? Let's try not to judge when success looks different for everyone.