Step by step. Looks like you upgraded your gravel pad, takes a lot of gravel for big trucks. My family are truckers and I'd recommend ya widen that narrow area of your drive, still doesn't look wide enough there for opses. 😂You are not going to enjoy flying back and forth. People are going to end up annoy you, have fun dealing with people.🤣 Have a great day Kevin.
Nice shop. and pad. it's all only time and money. and a lot of decision making. The battle over what to spend our limited resources on and what are true necessities is a moving target. Boy is it. One of these days we can split the costs on a small plane. you can land next to your truck down here. . I hoped to do similarly for over 25 years. Fortunatly life threw other blessings on my lap which made the decision to fly ( personally) back and forth to bees something thats probably not going to occur in my lifetime. The choice to not do so and invest the $ in other more profitable ventures ( family) is not one I regret. The older I get the more I realize we are only temporary stewards of all we are blessed with. Be that a lot, little, or in between. Utilizing them all prudently each and every day is a challenge at best. one thing about being in the bees. adversity brings character and wiser decision making. MOST OF THE TIME.
Do you have a video of your story of starting out to what you have become now in the beekeeping world? If you do I would love to see it! I wanna know what your goals were when you first started, I wanna know if you exceeded them.. did you plan on having as many colonies as you do now when you first started or did it just grow as you grew?
@@Hive5Bees you should do a video! Just simple one of what you wanted when you started out and what changed as you grew. Like I’m stating and I’m up to 30 colonies and I thought that was gonna be my goal. Now my goal is 50.. but once I hit 50 will my goal be70? And so on . I want to buy my equipment and build my bees and grow . I’m in that state hobbits and sideline.. I want to be in the sideline bad but not sure if that will be enough for me . Hope my questions make sense..
My broker never inspected the hives last year and as we all know it was a rough year. The grower was spraying after every storm (necessary evil) and I simply ask if they were using a surfactant as they were spraying during flight time and dead bees were piling up in front of my hives. I had a honest fear that if too many bees were killed and then the hives were inspected I would not get paid. I was feeding weekly and videoed everything to show that the hives were indeed strong. Long story short the broker dumped me saying I stirred too much chit just asking about the spray. I believe he let the grower down by not inspecting.
Extremely helpful! Great insight, thankyou and make more!
I appreciate your videos. Good insights and content!
yes it was helpfull!!
Commercial beekeeper here in Canada. I always find useful bits of either beekeeping or business info from your stuff. Keep up the good stuff
Love the videos. I have started a business of beekeeping and helpful tips definitely help me out! I’ve enjoyed your videos and content!
Step by step.
Looks like you upgraded your gravel pad, takes a lot of gravel for big trucks.
My family are truckers and I'd recommend ya widen that narrow area of your drive, still doesn't look wide enough there for opses.
😂You are not going to enjoy flying back and forth. People are going to end up annoy you, have fun dealing with people.🤣 Have a great day Kevin.
Great information thanks !
Great info!!
Nice shop. and pad. it's all only time and money. and a lot of decision making.
The battle over what to spend our limited resources on and what are true necessities is a moving target. Boy is it.
One of these days we can split the costs on a small plane. you can land next to your truck down here.
.
I hoped to do similarly for over 25 years. Fortunatly life threw other blessings on my lap which made the decision to fly ( personally) back and forth to bees something thats probably not going to occur in my lifetime.
The choice to not do so and invest the $ in other more profitable ventures ( family) is not one I regret.
The older I get the more I realize we are only temporary stewards of all we are blessed with. Be that a lot, little, or in between. Utilizing them all prudently each and every day is a challenge at best.
one thing about being in the bees. adversity brings character and wiser decision making.
MOST OF THE TIME.
To anyone reading these comments - this ☝🏽☝🏽 is the voice of wisdom and experience is life and commercial beekeeping. Thank you Phil
Have you covered, where to start looking for a pollination contract for out of area sideliners to newly commercial guys? If so what video was that?
I haven’t but really appreciate the idea - we’ll do it in the future 👍🏽
Do you have a video of your story of starting out to what you have become now in the beekeeping world? If you do I would love to see it! I wanna know what your goals were when you first started, I wanna know if you exceeded them.. did you plan on having as many colonies as you do now when you first started or did it just grow as you grew?
Great questions and will do! Haven’t done a video on that yet
@@Hive5Bees you should do a video! Just simple one of what you wanted when you started out and what changed as you grew. Like I’m stating and I’m up to 30 colonies and I thought that was gonna be my goal. Now my goal is 50.. but once I hit 50 will my goal be70? And so on . I want to buy my equipment and build my bees and grow . I’m in that state hobbits and sideline.. I want to be in the sideline bad but not sure if that will be enough for me . Hope my questions make sense..
Do you use a broker for the almonds?
Yes but be careful who you choose … reference are definitely important and then sticking with a company/broker that treats you fairly
My broker never inspected the hives last year and as we all know it was a rough year.
The grower was spraying after every storm (necessary evil) and I simply ask if they were using a surfactant as they were spraying during flight time and dead bees were piling up in front of my hives.
I had a honest fear that if too many bees were killed and then the hives were inspected I would not get paid. I was feeding weekly and videoed everything to show that the hives were indeed strong.
Long story short the broker dumped me saying I stirred too much chit just asking about the spray. I believe he let the grower down by not inspecting.
You need to change the name of your channel to bee 🐝 wise…