Extracting 710 lbs of our 2020 Honey Harvest S4E52
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2020
- I know this video is out of sequence, but I wanted to get to the contest winners before I got done editing this one. So, this video is the extraction process of all those honey supers. I highlight the equipment I use and try to timelapse as much as I can. It's still kind of long though. Here's a link to the heavy duty food grade buckets I used: amzn.to/3k5LhBJ and here's a link to my extractor at Blue Sky Bee Supply: www.blueskybeesupply.com/9-fr...
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Camera in the extractor? That’s genius. Well done!
Thanks Randy. I'm always looking for cool places to stick the GoPro. lol Thanks for watching and take care.
That's a LOT of honey!
My Honey comes in at around 1,000 lbs. Oh, wait, that's a horse. At least I don't have to pick her up! 😜
HaHa, but you get to ride your honey. lol Take care.
Lol. She claimed the 5 second rule. I would have done the same thing. Awesome. ❤
Yeah, don't mess around with that liquid gold. lol I think we ate it all and survived as well. lol Thanks for watching.
Got a deal on mine, holds 4 deeps for only 34 dollars, its a crank> but can put a electric drill on it . Take off the handle, put it on the drill chuck, and off ya go! If i ever get time, i got a washing machine going to make a extractor out of. Got my new mower in. Man This one is a cutting machine, Craftsman T140 there Excellent! I cut some Knee high wet grass yesterday with it> out does the pony 10 X better. It went right threw it. Got the front bumper and hitch on, waiting on the lights! All my mowers got front bumpers, hitches, cigarette lighters, and lights. Mandatory with me!
I burned up my belt last week. Got a new one that won't install itself.
I get burned out working on mowers all the time! Blades, belts, oil changes, and washing them. Nope got to put it on ! He hee i haven't invited a jump on belt yet. IDK WHY THEY CAN'T MAKE A ADJUSTABLE SNAP ON BELT! like chain saw blades take a link out and put the locking link on.. and i'am always cutting my hands up working on these dam mowers
what a sweet and simple life to watch. i like the music too; thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting.
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Epic brother!!!
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One really big improvement I've found to improve my extracting process is to buy or build a tub that holds frames that have been uncapped. This way you can be continuously uncapping frames while your extractor is spinning. Once it's done, you can fill it right back up with frames. Speeds up the process a TON!!!!
Btw, it took me a long time to find a plastic tub of the right dimensions for this. There are metal uncapping tanks that you can buy from the major bee equipment sellers but they cost $800! I built one using these tubs and some stainless steel rod for
That's a good idea. I've noticed my bottleneck is the uncapping. I was going to get a second uncapping tank for this year, but it wouldn't have mattered. With the social distance thing, it was only myself and my wife working on them. I could have used a second uncapping station anyway with the amount of cappings I had. I worked on them all week before I pulled the honey off them and got 50 lbs with the last 3 pulls. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm Last season using one of these uncapping tanks, a harmony farms uncapper and a maxant 20 frame radial extractor (does 10 deep or 20 medium) I extracted 25 gallons by myself in about 4 hours. I was very sore and tired afterwards, but glad it was done. The harmony farms uncapper is also another great time saver vs a heated knife. Less mess, less filtered cappings, and your wrist doesn't hurt.
@@Matt-dc8lp thanks Matt, I'll check out that uncapper.
5 gallon pails generally only hold 4 ish gallons. I have a graduated pail at work and the top line comes to 3.5 gallon.
Awsome video and very helpfull
Great video Jerome! Thanks for posting.
Thanks J Math. Thanks for watching.
I have been harvesting honey as a hobbyist for 10-years now and I wish I would have seen your video when I started back then. Excellent video, there is a lot of useful and important information on lessons learned for a honey harvest. It appears you and I have taken a similar journey. As far as buckets go, the ones from the big-box-stores are cr@p. I'm involved in the construction industry and I've learned the hard way why they are inexpensive. I get my honey buckets for free from bakeries that are going to be tossed into the landfill. As in the painting industry, you can't have buckets that are going to break and I found the buckets for the bakery industry hold up to the weight of honey. That being said, I will never ever lift them by the handle. I was taught to uncap the cappings by scratching with the uncapping fork and I could not figure out why I had so much wax in my extractor and honey, what a mistake. Thanks for producing and sharing your video.
Hi Billy. I’m always worried lifting them with the handle. I don’t fill them near as full either. About 50 lbs max is where they end up. Yeah, it’s a fork, not a scratcher. lol. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Definitely a very good harvest for you this year. And you're right brother beekeeping will definitely give you a good workout LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Hey MP. You should be about ready to harvest too.
@@JeromeBeeFarm yes sir my season did not turn out the way I had predicted. We had an extremely hot 2 1/2 to 3 weeks with no rain right about the time the white clover was in bloom and everything dried up. I had a huge amount of nectar being stored and when that hot spell hit and all the natural sources dried up the bees ate every bit of nectar and honey that they had started to cap. So instead of the 5000 to 6000 pounds of honey I was expecting I ended up with 1025 pounds of honey. So now it will depend on our fall flow and if they put away any extra that I can harvest.
Oh man, that sucks. Same thing happened to Kamon Reynolds in Tennessee. I think his did recover some though. Good luck with the fall flow.
Great harvest! Over 50% over last year is very impressive. I crapped out after 10 frames. Can't imagine as many as you had. Congratulations 🎉!
Hi Jon. Yeah, it's tiring, but rewarding. lol Take care.
What an awesome job ya done here buddy. That is one heck of a harvest. Looks like it wore you slam out. Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Hey MR. CB. thanks for stopping in. Our garden is on the downswing now. Mater plants are about done, but man, we got a bunch. lol Take care.
Very nice harvest partner!!! Keep the videos coming!!!!!
Thanks Rodney. Will do. Things to video get more sparse this time of year (after the harvest). Thanks for watching.
Good job & god bless you & those 🐝’s
Thanks so much Alpha
Thanks for sharing with us!
My pleasure, have a great day and thanks for watching.
Very nice video Jerome. I'm a south texas beekeeper just getting started with four hives. Had a good year this year, but nothing like yours. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Geckoproductions. I would like your winters, but don’t think I could handle the summers. Good luck getting started. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Excellent video! Thank you
Thanks! This year is shaping up similar to 2020. I ran out of honey boxes, so we'll see. Thanks for watching.
Here's a link to the heavy duty food grade buckets I got on Amazon. They are still available. amzn.to/3k5LhBJ and there are a lot of questions about my extractor. I purchased it from Brushy Mountain and they went out of business a couple years ago, and it looks like Blue Sky Bee Supply picked them up. They have changed a little bit in design looks like, but basically the same extractor. Here's a link to the Blue Sky site with the equivalent model that I have: www.blueskybeesupply.com/9-frame-power-radial-extractor-sn-9fm/
youre probably the only person on earth able to do this in your kitchen without making a complete mess. well done
Hey Skitzo Chik. Oh, there was a mess for sure. This is a working kitchen in our barn apartment. We lived in there for five years and built our house and moved out to the house, so we now have that nice work space.
Congrats! Looks lovely.
Thanks Peter.
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You’re welcome. Have a safe 4th.
Good deal i am glad for you i got 200 lbs this year and i set a goal of 500 lbs for next year
How many hives do you have? Are you in a warm climate state? Im in Central Florida with 7 hives. In the fall I got 15 gallons from 6 hives for a fall crop. No clue what to expect from a spring and summer crop.
@@dominiqueoconnor1948 Igot from 1 hive i have 3 hives, 5 gallons weighs about 65 lbs
Darren, thanks so much for this video!!! You taught me a few things in this one. You know how to use the uncapping fork correctly. So many scratch the cappings with it. In the last week I saw a video where a certified master beekeeper was scratch the cappings off. I remember your cracked leaking bucket last year. I bought buckets at Lowe’s since then and they were a different brand from the ones that you had crack open. If I buy another extractor I now know what I want to look for. Thanks again!
LOL, yeah, I watch the master beekeeper every now and then. I really like his videos. I think that was a bad run of buckets. I need to order six more of those so I don't run out next year. (I guess that's wishful thinking). Yeah, radial is the way to go, no flipping. Thanks for watching.
Congrats on an awesome honey harvest! Having that extra apartment worked out great for having a honey house. I still have supers on some of my hives, and will be doing my final harvest in a couple of weeks, then prepping for winter begins. You had a great year despite having queen issues, like a lot of us have. Well done! 😊🐝
Thanks PDaisy. Good luck with your harvest. I put my supers all back on the hives. Thanks for stopping by.
Wow! I love that instrumental too.
Thanks Leandro. Have a nice week.
Great Harvest! Hard work...Yes it is! But well worth the effort! Thanks for a well documented video!
Thanks PawPaw. Stay safe and take care.
Great video. You have a nice setup and your video is very informative.
Thanks Gary. Have a Merry Christmas 🎄. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Very nice really enjoyed this video well done 👍
Thanks for the visit. Take care.
Just found this video!!thats alot of honey,i love extracting videos so much!!in the process of learning all i need to know to keep my own bees..keep up the good work!love from south africa 👍
Hi Monique. Yeah that was my best year so far. Thanks for stopping in and good luck.
I have also had buckets to crack but only the lid with another bucket stacked on top. Now when I stack, I put a piece of plywood between them to distribute the load so its not all on the top lid of the bottom bucket and have had no problem for 20+ years. Really like the extractor. Wish I had a 9 frame radial. Mine is a 5 frame radial over 40 years old.
That's a good idea to put a board on there to distribute the load. I bet that 40 year old extractor is built to last too. lol Thanks for watching.
I just love this video, and such beautiful honey. I am new to this haven’t started yet. But wanting to and excited about it. I’ll be watching for some more of your videos.😅
Thanks Angie. Good luck to you in getting up and running. Stay safe and take care.
That’s awesome!!
Thanks Rock! Have a great weekend.
Good stuff Jerome
Thanks Bruce. Have a nice week.
Great job editing and content. I can only imagine the back pain☹️. I hope next year is just as good 👍
Thanks Hank, this video was from 2020. 2022 yielded 777 lbs. 2021 was a tough year around 300 lbs. thanks for stopping by.
Video is good!
Thank you Ellena
I thought the shot in the extractor was really cool great video altogether
Thanks Charles. You can stick a GoPro about anywhere. lol Thanks for watching and take care.
Congrats on the honey haul! Great shot from the bottom of the extractor. Now rest LOL!
Hey Toots. Yeah, been taking it somewhat easy this weekend. lol So much to do and so little time. Take care.
Jerome Bee Farm & Homestead wish I could say the same, driving from upstate NY to Tampa, FL. Long haul!
Awesome 😎
Thanks Roger.
I'm leaving a good bit of honey on the hives this year. There is only so much we can consume or sale out the front door. Family will get big jars this year for Christmas! Pennsylvania requires special regulations to retail which I do not want to deal with. Have seven 8-frame medium supers in the freezer full of capped honey. Some will go back on the 41 hives come fall if anyone is short and some will be held back for those hives that burn through their winter stores too quickly. Six or seven of the hives are mating nucs and I hope to sell off those queens before fall. Been a very good year!
Hi Nancy. Glad you are having a good year. I give a lot of mine away at Christmas too. I put away 5-6 cases of 1/2 pints. Makes a good gift and everyone likes it. lol That's a good idea storing it for hives that are short. It's much easier than feeding a bunch of sugar. lol Thanks for watching.
Congratulations! Glad you have that extractor. Beautiful knife decapping skills.
How many second year plus hives was the from?
Hi Michael. Not sure about your question. Most of my hives are over 2 years old. The amount of honey you get from a hive is dependent on the strength in numbers that the hive has to forage and also having good forage available for them. Thanks for stopping in.
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Man, beekeepers seem like some of the nicest people you could ever wish to meet. Lol I’m gonna have to give it a try. Mellow out a bit....
It's good mellow therapy - give it a try man.
Very good video. I am just getting started beekeeping. Your video helps me out a lot. I learned not to purchase buckets from Lowes lol.
Thanks Charles. Yeah, just be sure to check the mil thickness on them. Good luck in your beekeeping adventures.
I’m new getting my first Nucs in April, have my equipment already just preparing the site.
Good luck. One thing to consider is some ground cover to keep grass from growing. I put down old barn tin.
Good video thanks for the information
Thanks for stopping in Stephen. Take care.
Nice harvest of the golden nectar
Thanks Dwight. Definitely the largest I've had so far. It will be tough to top that one. Thanks for watching and take care.
US Plastics in Northwest Ohio has great prices on buckets and honey specific containers. Same products the bee suppliers have. Nice video.
Good tip - I wonder where you can pick them up at. Do they have their own web site. I looked on Amazon and these are still available:
amzn.to/3k5LhBJ $70 for six with lids, and with shipping if you are a Prime member.
We just have a couple hives and cut the cappings into a 5 gallon bucket with a mesh bag for straining paint. We put the cappings in the bag into our extractor and put it on slow and it slings it out but probably not as well as it could. I wonder if you could rig something up like that with a couple mesh bags to balance the weight. Ours is a tangential extractor though and it has a fair amount of support along the edges of the baskets to hold the bag. It may be more effort than it's worth though but may be worth trying.
Hi Brian. I would just let it hang in the bags over a bucket or something and let gravity do the work. Keep it plenty warm and move it around every day or so until it quits producing. The extractor thing sounds like an out of balance washing machine effect. That also puts strain on the motor and bottom bushing/bearings when it's out of balance like that. It would be more pain than it's worth to me to try to balance it out. But I suppose it's a doable thing. lol Thanks for watching.
I hope you got some rest after your 4 days of manual labor. We don't have our 20 year old bodies anymore. LOL Boy, you sure have a nice extractor. Love the smoothness and controls. Good tip on the pails, I checked mine in the middle of the video and was happy to see 90 ml on the bottom. Great tips here - didn't realize the hot knife could work that well. Now you have to figure out how to sell almost twice as much honey as last year. Take care Jerome.
lol, yeah. I was wore out for sure. Funny how getting older affects ones stamina. Yeah, I like that extractor. I hope it holds up. Probably impossible to find parts for it. All buckets are not created equal.
Good video
Thanks for the visit
You need to get a small wine press for your cappings gets the bulk of the out , not that expensive . Good photography.
Hi Peter. I’ll look into that. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for sharing the whole process. Quick question for you, what do you do with your frames, how to you store them during winter? Also, a different question! What do you do with all those bees in those supers when winter comes? Do they just go down there and squeeze all together?
I store the frames indoors over winter and the bees downsize their population to overwinter and all live in the bottom two boxes. I leave plenty of honey down below for them to use over winter. Thanks for watching.
Another great video thanks for sharing.
I believe that you've mentioned that keep your# of hives at about 30.
Just out of curiosity how many of those are production hives?
Thanks
Hi JBee, yes, I try not to get over 30. Too much for one person to handle - at least at my speed. lol I would guess around half of those produced harvestable honey above the brood boxes. I had three others that would have produced, but I used them as resource hives and pulled bees from them to boost up the weaker hives to get things balanced out. Thanks for watching.
Great video Jerome. Looks like the extractor works good, does it have a name on it?
Hey Spider. It has like 3 letters on it. like BNK or something. If you watch last year's extraction video I believe I say what they are. Thanks for watching.
Where in Oklahoma are you.
Thanks for the video.
Very enjoyable
Hey Joseph. We're in Central Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma city in a small town called Newcastle.
He extracted the wax better than be keepers that do this for a living and has a better set up
Thanks Bridget. Take care.
Love the video. Last week I bought LOWES buckets. They are going back to Lowes. Does your hot knife get burnt honey on it if you lay it down too long?
Hi Daisy, just watch out for the brand name and the MIL thickness. Here's the 90 MIL buckets I picked up and they are good ones.
amzn.to/3k5LhBJ Yes, my knife will get a burned honey on it if it sits on for a long time. I clean it with a cool damp cloth and it comes right off. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks Terri.
Wow, that's a great haul! How many hives total do you have?
I try to stay at 30 hives. Probably around 20 produced honey. Some more than others. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Do you run a dehumidifier and fan around the supers to bring the moisture content down, or never had any issues with fermenting?
This year 2021 I did because I had more uncapped than usual. I also tested it to be sure the humidity was reduced before I extracted. I have not had any fermentation issues when I didn't run the dehumidifier.
I cant believe a year has gone by since the spilt bucket incident!
Man, time flies. Boy, I was leery about using that bottling bucket that was from that lot. Were you the person I was talking to about pressurizing the bucket? I got mine going this year. I use a Harbor Freight battery pack that has the pump on it. lol Works great.
@@JeromeBeeFarm No I was not the person with the pressurised bucket idea, but it is a cracking idea!
If you melt your wax capings the honey will seperate from the wax naturally
Would a salad spinner work to get the honey out of your cappings? It might be too flimsy and you'd probably need to line it with a finer mesh?
Hmm. I don’t know about that. Might make a good video. lol. Take care.
By the way, you can get free food grade buckets from the bakery in your local grocery store. The icing they use come in them and the will usually rinse them and se them aside for you if you ask.
I got some heavy duty thick ones on Amazon. Thanks for watching.
That is really amazing! How many hives are you running total?
Hi Larry. I have about 30 hives and probably half of those produced honey to harvest. Thanks for watching.
Thank you Sir! I’m at 10 hives this year, but we had rain all the way through June this year. That really put a damper on production this year for us. Last year I only had two hives and got about 120 pounds of honey. This year with 10 hives I’m only at about 100 or so pounds! LoL!!! Hoping the fall flow kicks in and get us enough for the bees for winter. I’d rather they had enough than me trying to pull any. But if we get some to bring to the table I won’t be upset. 😃
Thank you for the great content as always. Love how you turned the old apartment into the honey house, BRILLIANT!!! Keep doing what you do sir. Look forward to see what’s next.
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That’s pretty good average for two hives. Good luck with the remainder of the year.
Jerome, you said you put the supers on top of the hives to clean out. How long to you leave them on the hive and do they start to store honey in them again or do they store it down lower in the brood box? I don't have room for a free feeding frenzy living in town. Thanks Jerome.
Hi Russ. I pull them off in the fall and harvest what’s there and store them over winter. If you just want them to clean them out they would probably have them clean in just a couple days.
Do you use foundation? Wires? Queen excluders?
I have a mix of frames. Some plastic, some wax foundation. I run excluders. I want honey and not brood in my supers. Thanks for watching.
How many hives are currently running?
Hi Sandy. I try to run 30 hives, I think I wound up with 22 this winter. I had a hard time getting mated queens back from their mating flights last year. I probably had about 15 honey producers. Thanks for watching.
How long can uncàpped honey be stored in the frames??lets say if you dont want to extract right away..
Indefinitely, but you need to protect it from pests. It can also crystalize in the comb.
Awesome video! That's an amazing honey haul!!! Absolutely amazing! If I want allergic to bees,I would love to do this. I find the whole thing very interesting.
Thanks Scott.
Thats a lot of honey. Did you sell it?
I sold quite a bit and also gave a lot away as Christmas presents where I work.
How long do you think it will take you to sell out of your honey? Do you do farm stands or Just have people call you to buy some?
I usually sell it all to people we know and family friends. I haven’t had to do farmers market so far. I think I’ll have problems this year with the pandemic though.
Man that is some beautiful honey! I enjoy watching Mr Ed and Dirt Rooster, this is the first time I've seen your channel, really enjoyed it. Nice clean smooth operation really enjoyable to watch. Nice increase over the prior year! I'm interested to see how you handle the wax cappings, you probably have more honey trapped in them after the gravity drain. If you melted the wax slowly at a lower temp not on a high heat will the wax and honey separate? Best wishes.
Hi Mark. Jeff and Randy are really nice guys. Jeff encouraged me to start my channel and Randy and I are always talking about photography and video shots and camera equipment. He’s also helped me in dealing with unsavory commenters. That was 2020 harvest, which was the best I’ve ever had. 2021 was about half that. The weather didn’t cooperate at all. Super cold winter and constant rain during the flow. Yeah the residual honey separates out when you melt it. I need to do another wax rendering video. I have a lot of cappings I still need to process. Thanks for stopping in.
Maybe I missed it, but who is the manufacturer of that extractor?
I didn't say. It's 3 letters on the front. If you watch last year's extraction video, I tell what they are. I bought it from Brush Mountain and they are no longer in business.
Honey is from what plants ? Sunflower or ?
Mostly wildflowers in the area. Some honey locust, clover and possibly alfalfa if they travel that far.
What do you do when the honey is too thick to process?
I was trying to do crush and strain but it feels like it will take 10 years.
Hey Noah. Thickness is basically a function of temperature. Also, crush and strain has all kinds of resistance to flow with the crushed comb, and straining, and comb getting in the strainer, so all that is working against you. You will need a lot of patience with that technique. Try warming it up somehow if you can, that's about the only thing you can do. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the reply.
You are right.
In the video above your honey crop is impressive.
@@noahriding5780 Thanks!
700# of honey from how many hives?
Usually about 1/2 of my hives produce and I try to keep 25-30 going.
Can you tell us the name brand of your extractor.
It's a SAF Natura. Looks like Blue Sky Bee Supply Picked them up after Brushy Mountain went under. www.blueskybeesupply.com/s-a-f-natura/
@@JeromeBeeFarm - I have the same brand extractor. Picked it up from another bee keeper that bought it but never used it due to health issues. Mine holds 15 deeps. It's actually bigger than I really need at this point. My only complaint is that it is loud, I guess because of all the metal gears. But as far as performance - so far so good. Fingers crossed.
@@kenjordan5164 Wow, 15 deeps, that's a big dude. I wish mine would do deeps radially. Thanks for stopping in.
Did this honey come from Canola fields?
Hi Vagabond. No canola in my area. Mostly wild flowers/clover/honey locust. I do have an alfalfa field 2.5 miles away, but I don't know if they make it that far. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm My bees have similar nectar sources but the honey this year was considerably darker that what I harvested last year. Thanks for the videos!
@@JeromeBeeFarm 2.5 miles is at the upper limit of how far away they go. There'd have to be almost no flowers anywhere else within that distance, for them to go that far.
We did not have a great year for honey in North Carolina this year. half of what I got last year. Not much rain! How are you selling all that honey?
Sorry to hear that. You never know how your crop will go. So weather dependent. Man, I don't know. We've already delivered a few bottles to folks close and they pay by paypal and we put it in the mail box. I bet I have a lot left over. I'm ready for the Covid to go away. Thanks for watching.
what state are you in? I hear everyone around here is having problems with low honey. The year started off losing half of my queens. But I spent some time grafting and expanding with different queens to see what I like.
@@campdavidsonfunctionaltrai8583 I'm in central Oklahoma and I had a hard time with queens returning from mating this year. About 20% success, if that.
Oklahoma, lots of farms lots of stuff growing...yup I get it. Learn how to graft eggs and make queens from your best stock. It's the next big thing to learn. Your gonna suck the first 2 years but you'll get it. I grafted 20 this year and got 18 mated. The more bees ya have in the hood the better chance you'll have getting her mated. Buy a green frame for the drones. Put one in every hive next spring.
@@JeromeBeeFarm - I'm in Central NJ and had the same issues with the queens. I had 4 hives go queenless after unexpected early swarms. Bought queens this year for the first time in a long time.
How many production hives do you have sir? 15 or 20?
I would estimate around 15 hives were producers out of the 30 I have.
@@JeromeBeeFarm sweet. I started this year with 4, now have 8 or 9. Gave away 4 to get new people started. I got 135 pounds this year. I am hoping for 300 next year
@@JeromeBeeFarm how many years have you been beekeeping?
@@danieltaylor8113 This is year 8 for me. Started 2013 I believe.
@@JeromeBeeFarm thats awesome! Have you been growing or staying constant? Next year will be my 3rd year and after that i have to start over :( (military, started beekeeping in germany and will be going back to the states)
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I get food grade buckets free from grocery store deli's
That's good if you have access to them. Just don't use the pickle buckets, your honey might get a little funky. lol
@@JeromeBeeFarm True ! The ones we get has icing in them .
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