Hi, I am 12 y/o and just started beekeeping. Just this last week I caught 3 swarms and am super excited. I plan to use a Bee Escape when getting ready to harvest honey. I hope I get a good amount this year but am trying to increase my number of hives. Thanks for the great video. Sid
This was one of the videos I watched, when beekeeping was just a dream of a girl in a dorm room. Now I have three hives and I'm living the dream! :) Can't wait for my first honey harvest
I really appreciate your effort in making this video. The best part, is you stayed on point and didn’t corrupt with crazy music! Please share more of your bee keeping experiences.
In the old country Palestine we used to use bee wax to seal apricot jam jars , after filling the jam jars and allowing the jam to cool down we used to melt the wax and pour about a quarter-inch of wax on top of the jam , this method of preservation was good enough to preserve apricot jam until the next season comes along .
I retire next week 31 December 2019...after 28yrs of law enforcement service.....been talking about Bee Keeping and honey producing as a hobby for a few years now....Man I am excited to start.
Hawaiian80882 congrats on retirement. You should become a bee keeper. Pick any hobby you ever wanted and just do it. One day I will be a hobby blacksmith. Maybe drive in a demo derby once and rescue donkeys and old dogs. I’m thinking of practicing this too very soon. But law enforcement for 28 years?!? I think you deserve to do something fun and crazy. Don’t ever live in your comfort zone, just know where it is at all times. Lol. Best of luck. You know what? Become a bee keeper and video the beginning of you doing it and put it on UA-cam!! Man I’d watch that.
Thank you for this video. This is probably one of the best examples of honey extraction and filtering I've seen so far. My neighbor is in the process of building his first hives and I hope to be able to help him build the hives along with giving them some follow-on support during their first year, which is why I'm watching these videos. Excellent job on the explanations and the honey extraction process, I've learned A LOT from your video.
Thanks for your kind words. We have learned a lot form this video, our first year, over the next two (there are additional videos with harvest #2 and #3. Glad to help, and if you have any questions, just send them and I will answer them the best I can.
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions. I learned as much from the comment section as the video. I have 60 acres in the country and think I'm going to start making some honey..
It is fun. We just started our 6th season. For the first time we decided to do two harvests instead of one (End of May and Early August). Still bottling, but it looks like we got around 150 lbs. Our friends can't get enough of it...
This is a very awesome video. 40 plus years ago I had 2 hives. Then I moved into town and couldn't take them. Now I am back in the country, forever, and want to get more. Before when I had them someone would come do everything you did in this video for me. This time I want to do it all myself. So this was a very informative video. I knew about filters and extractors but never saw them in action. I will subscribe to your channel and go through your videos.
We do put down a disposable ground cloth, but everything gets sticky. We are very lucky. This is our friend's honey house. They have about 8 hives and they spent a boatload of money to set this up and they graciously let us use it. I am thinking about buying my own extractor because it is so much more convenient at your own house and you can harvest multiple times easily instead of all at once on a single day. Should be harvesting year 3 in the next few weeks. Lots of work! Will post the new video.
This is got to be the best beekeeping video I've seen yet. I've been looking into it for a while now and this is by far been the most detailed and accurate one that I can say I've seen. Congratulations on that. And you and your friends have great setups. And I like the way that you can get far away from the bees and go to your friend's house to do the actual pulling of the honey. Where is bees aren't going to be an issue. Thank you very much for the information and video.
Thank you for your kind words. Our friends do have a great setup - they purchased one of those tough sheds, wired it for electricity, plus the equipment. However, they have 10 colonies within 10 feet of the entrance to the shed, so there are lots of bees around. As long as you don't dawdle too much or leave honey out somewhere, the bees are hardly noticeable. Most of the credit on the video goes to the narrative of my wife. She is much more detailed than I am. This third year coming up, when I make my third year harvest video, I am going to include lots of responses to questions. Beekeeping is a lot of fun. Hopefully you will try it out!
Brook Hill Honey - Mr. G's Honeybees unfortunately I'm disabled so everything I do takes much longer than it would a normal person as you can normal person could go out and work and have money and afford these things to buy where is I have to wait months and months and months to get a few pieces but I'm definitely interested and all natural and healthy things and honey is definitely one of the best all natural things that there is. So thank you and thank your wife.
See if you can find a local beekeeping club in your area. In our local area, our club keeps a number of hives and they are always happy to allow people to help. Beekeeping isn't an inexpensive hobby, we are fortunate because harvesting equipment would have added several thousand dollars more. Hopefully things can work out for you and you can get some bees. Best of luck!
My Dad (a police man) will be retired next year. He loves farming. This morning he thought about bee husbandrying. I will recommend your channel so he can learn. Thank you! 💖👍
Thank you for this! By this time next year I plan to have a hive. I am studying to learn well before I jump in. I wish for a healthy hive with no fails. It looks like you guys have a good program working. I hope I have similar success! God Bless!
Great process. Especially, letting the bees clean up the wax and honey! very smart.. energy efficient and working together with the bees. best vid iv come across so far. love it. thanks for sharing :)
Thanks. This was one of the first videos I did and I didn't know how to edit yet. I feel a bit bad for the long dead spaces in the video...glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your kind words.
Best of luck!. Look for a local beekeeping club. Many times you can get lots of extra mentoring. Beware! There are about 10 opinions for every beekeeping solution...
I am not in the honey business but I have to say I have found your video very interesting and relaxing to watch the way you guys created your tools was very creative and I see that your stations are very clean so kudos to you and much success💪👍
Fascinating. God sure knew what he was doing when he created bees! The hard work, dedication and intelligence of the bees from making the wax and honey start to finish is nothing short of a miracle. I never knew how exactly it was all done. Thank you for sharing! I always wanted to know just how the wax was harvested also. Amazing how the bees clean it all up. Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good... :-D
I love honey from the agriculture areas of the Central Valley in California. I can never get enough honey sold from the farms when I drive up there....when I buy my house I want to do some honey harvesting. Honey so sweet and better than store bought. Fresh honey is the way to go...
So well done thank you so much. Just an idea maybe reheat the knife so it keeps cutting more easily. Great job! What an incredible miracle how those tiny little bees make such perfect honeycombs - absolute miracle of God’s creation!
Honey is so sweet. I hope one day to have a bee hive! You make it look easy to do. Anything to help our bee population grow and get back to before mite numbers. Fourty nine pounds is a ton of honey! Great for you!!!💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸
That is beautiful! There is something special about harvesting your own honey. We have 2 hives. 1 we bought in September the other we did our first cut out in November. I am hoping they both grow this spring and make surplus honey for us!
Great video! Hi from Belarus bee's forests! 👍👍👍✊🙏 I'm to bee keeping and found this very practical and informative. I'm realizing that this is a complex "hobby" with a huge amount of information to learn and assimilate. Thank you for taking the time to share.
Amazing! I never knew you could let the bees clean up the last of the honey left on the comb and the cappings. That is so cool! The beautiful white cappings are the absolute best wax quality. I have purchased that grade for cosmetic use. It's pretty pricey. It also would have been the grade used in church candles.
We kept some for ourselves and sold the rest. In our year 2 and year 3 videos, we harvested over a 120 lbs both years and also did the same. People go crazy over it. Don't expect to make money beekeeping unless you get a lot more colonies. Also, it is easier to make money selling bees than it is to make money selling honey.
That is my favorite part of the harvest, and mind boggling. The sticky, honey dipped wax trimmings, end up as flaky, dry wax pieces. It is amazing no matter how many times I see it.
i could watch you guys shake bees off of those boxes all day. this is so weird and so interesting... i love watching different lifestyles and types of work/hobbies
its amazing how much work actually goes into getting honey. no wonder why many traditional harvesters don't like the new flow invention. but i must say cam definitely not cut out to go the traditional way. great job btw.
Best comment ever! That extractor is also a part of the new NASA INTERSTELLAR PROJECT. Greetings from Germany and a happy new jear. 3 ..2.. 1.. lift off . . .
Exactly the beauty of nature just unimaginable. Worms poo= lovely soil or dirt Munure = to beautiful roses and flours Cows dung used for so fuel economy and fertilisers and flooring. Amazing how the creator of all this does not allow us to waste .
‘There emerges from their bellies a drink (Honey), varying in colours, in which there is a healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.’ - Quran 16:69
Also, most of what we absorb from what we eat is vomited up from our own bacterial colonies. What’s nice though, is this process acts as a filter and protects us. The microorganisms or bugs take the brunt of the unhealthy toxins and bacteria with them and leave a much more healthily digested product. The nectar they bring in before it is brought down in moisture content and put through the enzymatic process of the bee is awful. I mean, it’s definitely not inedible, just an acquired taste. It’s full of all types of minerals and vitamins that make it taste super bitter. Also, probably has a good helping of bacteria and potential toxins from plants humans can’t eat. There are many colonies in China notorious for their toxic honey, unfortunately those bees do not filter out the toxins. Does supposedly make for an interesting experience if digested in moderation, haha. But you’re right my friend, nature is amazing. I love how intelligently it is designed yet artistically it moves. It’s truly something of immense beauty.
This is wonderful!!!! Thank you for sharing so many details of the process. Question: What do you do with the beeswax cake at the end??? Sell it? Use it for something???
You can make candles. You can also sell it back to equipment manufactures and they use it to make wax foundation (for frames). We plan to use it to make some lip gloss, but we keep talking about it but haven't done it yet. Maybe after this season!
We will! We have four years of wax, soon to be our fifth harvest in about a month. We will make a video of the harvest, and then hopefully make some lip balm as well as some candles.
Yeah the White Is the capping and the yellow is the rest of The wax but if you melt It in one Of those huge melter pots they sell for Tons of wax to be melted you will actually get four to five different colors The white or Creamy white a dark Golden yellow A Brownish Kind of Color then lighter shades of yellow it's so cool to Watch all this Stuff love the videos For Sure Just found y'alls channel
Sweetheart make a video or a video series on how to start , where to start , how much money you need to start , how to maintain or how you're maintaining the bee firm , A-Z process of honeykeeping . I'll appreciate !
Calling someone a "Sweetheart" must change regionally. I have always thought of it as compliment to a person's kindly demeanor regardless of their sex.
You can do it! At first, when you are learning it is good to go in and inspect bees each weekend, but after a few years, we don't spend nearly as much time now that we have learned from practice. Find a local beekeepers club. Many have mentoring programs to help you learn.
I am curious where you got the bucket/with wire rack (that the honey drained into) and the setup for the sink when you were removing the wax caps. I will be harvesting this year for the first time and am trying to get all my equipment needs in place. Thank you - this video was great!
Thanks for your kind words! Any bee supply company has a similar product, and I am sure a local bee supply store would also, if you are fortunate to have one in your city. If you can't find one, leave me another note with your preferred bee supplies company and I will help you find their equivalent product.
I love watching this, with the cuttings, if you soak them in hot water and agitate them every so often for about an hour first before putting them out for the bees, the liquid combined with 2Lb of raw honey from the bottom of the cutting box makes 1-gallon of wonderful mead. It is a shame you don't live in the UK, I would share the mead if you shared the raw honey.
@@BrookHillHoneyMrGsHoneybees I have one who does already which is how I know about it, but anyone in the far north west of England reading this I am game if you are LOL.
As you shake them off, after they land on top of the other frames, they either walk back into the box, or if they fly, they would fly to the opening and walk in. Most of them just crawl back in. Bees are "GPS" oriented, so you could take a bunch of them, drive a few a bit away, and they would make it back home no problem
how long does it take for the bees to make a 5 gallon bucket of honey. what do you feed the bees. whats the difference between Costco clover honey (5 lbs for $15) and yours.
5 gallons of honey is about 60 lbs. If the honey flow is strong, a colony of bees can make that in two weeks. I don't feed the bees unless they are light on stores going into the winter. They will take sugar water, or sugar straight. You can also swap honey frames in from a hive that has extra.
2:01 in the morning watching this in nyc not knowing a damn thing about bees and I got to go to school tomorrow but hey I’m here might as well enjoy it.
Hi, I am 12 y/o and just started beekeeping. Just this last week I caught 3 swarms and am super excited. I plan to use a Bee Escape when getting ready to harvest honey. I hope I get a good amount this year but am trying to increase my number of hives. Thanks for the great video. Sid
Sid the Bee Kid aww just subscribed to you, kiddo! Keep up the good work and keep growing 💙
Sid the Bee Kid YOU are amazing...your parents must be so proud!
Way to go Sid!Good luck in the future!
Sid the Bee Kid Just got yourself a new subscriber! Dang! Doing at twelve what I wanna do in my twenties! Nice! Good luck.
Glad you are interested in keeping bees! Have fun learning and enjoy your honey!!! :)
This was one of the videos I watched, when beekeeping was just a dream of a girl in a dorm room. Now I have three hives and I'm living the dream! :) Can't wait for my first honey harvest
Congratulations. I really enjoy beekeeping. Good luck on your honey harvest!!
I really appreciate your effort in making this video. The best part, is you stayed on point and didn’t corrupt with crazy music! Please share more of your bee keeping experiences.
In the old country Palestine we used to use bee wax to seal apricot jam jars ,
after filling the jam jars and allowing the jam to cool down we used to melt the wax and pour about a quarter-inch of wax on top of the jam ,
this method of preservation was good enough to preserve apricot jam until the next season comes along .
Wow, who needs plastic containers, eh? Thanks for sharing, very interesting!
My granny in Louisiana did thesame forapricots. Old school has no borders.
About the best way to do it. You know for sure there is no air left on top of the jam to spoil it. 😊
@@mikeh7708 my vacuum packer has it's hand raised with a dejected look about it.. 😁
Very cool.
I know nothing about bees or honey & this is soo interesting
I'm thinking very seriously about doing this. It looks so satisfying.
Me too I just want to start a beehive on my rooftop @@gazinta
It is a wonderful hobby. You will love it. Unless you are allergic to bee stings and pollen.
Is it really expensive it looks like it
i am thinking about it for busness but idk if it is profitable?
I retire next week 31 December 2019...after 28yrs of law enforcement service.....been talking about Bee Keeping and honey producing as a hobby for a few years now....Man I am excited to start.
Hawaiian80882 congrats on retirement. You should become a bee keeper. Pick any hobby you ever wanted and just do it. One day I will be a hobby blacksmith. Maybe drive in a demo derby once and rescue donkeys and old dogs. I’m thinking of practicing this too very soon. But law enforcement for 28 years?!? I think you deserve to do something fun and crazy. Don’t ever live in your comfort zone, just know where it is at all times. Lol. Best of luck. You know what? Become a bee keeper and video the beginning of you doing it and put it on UA-cam!! Man I’d watch that.
Crazy inspirational. Now comes the hard part, convincimg the wife that we need to do this.
Husband: We should get some bees and make honey!
Wife: You can only have 1 queen
Husband: "divorce filed"
Thank you for this video. This is probably one of the best examples of honey extraction and filtering I've seen so far. My neighbor is in the process of building his first hives and I hope to be able to help him build the hives along with giving them some follow-on support during their first year, which is why I'm watching these videos. Excellent job on the explanations and the honey extraction process, I've learned A LOT from your video.
Thanks for your kind words. We have learned a lot form this video, our first year, over the next two (there are additional videos with harvest #2 and #3. Glad to help, and if you have any questions, just send them and I will answer them the best I can.
I like how we are watching the process and while his wife seems to be learning as well . He steps in when he notices she needs help. Nice work guys
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@@stevelegge3307 lol
@@stevelegge3307 a necessary evil.. 😁
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Yeah it's really a cool progress thanks for sharing again 👍😊👍
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions.
I learned as much from the comment section as the video.
I have 60 acres in the country and think I'm going to start making some honey..
plant a few acres of mums and black eyed susans :)
Her: What are you doing awake at 3am? Flirting with girls??
Me: My first year's Honey Harvest 49 pounds from start to finish
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😂🤣😂🤣😂 I laughed so hard at this
😂😂 I actually watching this at 3 am
Nah for me it’s 2 am. I don’t think I’ll survive quarantine
WOW! Now I want to have my own bee hive and harvest honey! Great vid, thanks!!!
get a Flow hive - much easier to harvest the honey
It is a fun hobby. Maybe sometime you will get a chance to catch a swarm. It is a rush!
Thanks for making this video. I need a new hobby since I quit doing drugs. I like honey.
me too!
Tony Ray did you really do drugs?
I'm a second year beekeeper now, and just pulled 42 lbs of honey from 3 colonies. There's plenty more being capped. It's so exciting!
It is fun. We just started our 6th season. For the first time we decided to do two harvests instead of one (End of May and Early August). Still bottling, but it looks like we got around 150 lbs. Our friends can't get enough of it...
This is a very awesome video. 40 plus years ago I had 2 hives. Then I moved into town and couldn't take them. Now I am back in the country, forever, and want to get more. Before when I had them someone would come do everything you did in this video for me. This time I want to do it all myself. So this was a very informative video. I knew about filters and extractors but never saw them in action. I will subscribe to your channel and go through your videos.
Can we talk about how immaculately clean was that extractor room! How do you keep that so clean with so much sticky honey everywhere?
We do put down a disposable ground cloth, but everything gets sticky. We are very lucky. This is our friend's honey house. They have about 8 hives and they spent a boatload of money to set this up and they graciously let us use it. I am thinking about buying my own extractor because it is so much more convenient at your own house and you can harvest multiple times easily instead of all at once on a single day. Should be harvesting year 3 in the next few weeks. Lots of work! Will post the new video.
You either scrub clean are you at the bees then to clean up all the sticky honey and then just wipe everything down
Lol she hadn't used that room prior to the filming of this video.
Thank you for video! Best spring greetings from Ukrainian beekeepers to beekeepers in Canada and USA!
This is got to be the best beekeeping video I've seen yet. I've been looking into it for a while now and this is by far been the most detailed and accurate one that I can say I've seen. Congratulations on that. And you and your friends have great setups. And I like the way that you can get far away from the bees and go to your friend's house to do the actual pulling of the honey. Where is bees aren't going to be an issue. Thank you very much for the information and video.
Thank you for your kind words. Our friends do have a great setup - they purchased one of those tough sheds, wired it for electricity, plus the equipment. However, they have 10 colonies within 10 feet of the entrance to the shed, so there are lots of bees around. As long as you don't dawdle too much or leave honey out somewhere, the bees are hardly noticeable. Most of the credit on the video goes to the narrative of my wife. She is much more detailed than I am. This third year coming up, when I make my third year harvest video, I am going to include lots of responses to questions. Beekeeping is a lot of fun. Hopefully you will try it out!
Brook Hill Honey - Mr. G's Honeybees unfortunately I'm disabled so everything I do takes much longer than it would a normal person as you can normal person could go out and work and have money and afford these things to buy where is I have to wait months and months and months to get a few pieces but I'm definitely interested and all natural and healthy things and honey is definitely one of the best all natural things that there is. So thank you and thank your wife.
See if you can find a local beekeeping club in your area. In our local area, our club keeps a number of hives and they are always happy to allow people to help. Beekeeping isn't an inexpensive hobby, we are fortunate because harvesting equipment would have added several thousand dollars more. Hopefully things can work out for you and you can get some bees. Best of luck!
damn, today i just found something else to do in my early forties
what is it?
@@shadygaming6523 What? youtube videos on honey extraction
@@shadygaming6523 bee keeping obviously.
Lol
been doing that in my early teens!
My Dad (a police man) will be retired next year. He loves farming. This morning he thought about bee husbandrying. I will recommend your channel so he can learn.
Thank you! 💖👍
Thank you for this! By this time next year I plan to have a hive. I am studying to learn well before I jump in. I wish for a healthy hive with no fails. It looks like you guys have a good program working. I hope I have similar success! God Bless!
Great process. Especially, letting the bees clean up the wax and honey! very smart.. energy efficient and working together with the bees. best vid iv come across so far. love it. thanks for sharing
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Thanks. This was one of the first videos I did and I didn't know how to edit yet. I feel a bit bad for the long dead spaces in the video...glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your kind words.
Living in the Caribbean and Looking to start in a month or two and watching these vid brought me joy and positivity
i am doing a bee keeping course next year, i am so exited for all this. Excellent video.
Best of luck!. Look for a local beekeeping club. Many times you can get lots of extra mentoring. Beware! There are about 10 opinions for every beekeeping solution...
I am not in the honey business but I have to say I have found your video very interesting and relaxing to watch the way you guys created your tools was very creative and I see that your stations are very clean so kudos to you and much success💪👍
Fascinating. God sure knew what he was doing when he created bees! The hard work, dedication and intelligence of the bees from making the wax and honey start to finish is nothing short of a miracle. I never knew how exactly it was all done. Thank you for sharing! I always wanted to know just how the wax was harvested also. Amazing how the bees clean it all up. Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good... :-D
Very beautiful and calming video thanks for sharing
I love honey from the agriculture areas of the Central Valley in California. I can never get enough honey sold from the farms when I drive up there....when I buy my house I want to do some honey harvesting. Honey so sweet and better than store bought. Fresh honey is the way to go...
So well done thank you so much. Just an idea maybe reheat the knife so it keeps cutting more easily. Great job! What an incredible miracle how those tiny little bees make such perfect honeycombs - absolute miracle of God’s creation!
That was a great video and an awesome haul of the liquid gold I also like the solar wax melter I am going to have to give that a try.
Excellent video of harvesting honey. That is a pretty good amount you were able to get
Thank you for taking us along.
Love how kind you are to the bees. It’s a dream of mine to beekeep and selling honey and all on a little farm 🍯🐝🐄🐄
Honey is so sweet. I hope one day to have a bee hive! You make it look easy to do. Anything to help our bee population grow and get back to before mite numbers. Fourty nine pounds is a ton of honey! Great for you!!!💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸💐🌹🌸
That is beautiful! There is something special about harvesting your own honey. We have 2 hives. 1 we bought in September the other we did our first cut out in November. I am hoping they both grow this spring and make surplus honey for us!
Great video! Hi from Belarus bee's forests! 👍👍👍✊🙏 I'm to bee keeping and found this very practical and informative. I'm realizing that this is a complex "hobby" with a huge amount of information to learn and assimilate. Thank you for taking the time to share.
Amazing! I never knew you could let the bees clean up the last of the honey left on the comb and the cappings. That is so cool! The beautiful white cappings are the absolute best wax quality. I have purchased that grade for cosmetic use. It's pretty pricey. It also would have been the grade used in church candles.
Also, what did you end up doing with 49 pounds of honey?!
We kept some for ourselves and sold the rest. In our year 2 and year 3 videos, we harvested over a 120 lbs both years and also did the same. People go crazy over it. Don't expect to make money beekeeping unless you get a lot more colonies. Also, it is easier to make money selling bees than it is to make money selling honey.
People go crazy over this stuff. We don't have enough to sell to our friends. Hard to make money, but at least it offsets the cost of the hobby.
Hello, I'm Belinda Silmaro a new subscriber from Davao City Philippines.
Welcome!!
Wow what an efficient way of extracting honey
Love the video, getting my first 2 packages of bees in a month. Cant wait to get started in beekeeping. Thank you for all the helpful info!
Best of luck!
Nice to watch the beginning of the journey looking forward to our own hives in the near future
Thanks for sharing your adventure with honey bees. Loved it.
Must be a wonderful sense of accomplishment for you...great job beekeepers!!!!
Great video kids. Thank you for sharing and teaching us about bee produce. VERY INTERESTING.
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Thanks for watching!
I was thinking the bees would love those shavings so that’s awesome that you give back to them!
Appreciate how clean the room is. Very interesting video👍
It’s amazing the videos I’ve seen during the COVID lockdown
I’m starting my hives this year. Very cool video.
Your process is so neat and clean.
This was fascinating. It makes me want to take up beekeeping. Thanks for an informative vid. Makes me appreciate bees even more.
That was pretty interesting, especially the segment where the bees do the clean-up :)
That is my favorite part of the harvest, and mind boggling. The sticky, honey dipped wax trimmings, end up as flaky, dry wax pieces. It is amazing no matter how many times I see it.
Very well explained the entire procedure..
Thank you from India..
i could watch you guys shake bees off of those boxes all day. this is so weird and so interesting... i love watching different lifestyles and types of work/hobbies
its amazing how much work actually goes into getting honey. no wonder why many traditional harvesters don't like the new flow invention. but i must say cam definitely not cut out to go the traditional way. great job btw.
Watching that wax slicing off and the honey dripping is awsome
I don’t get people that like crystal clear honey, RAW HONEY is th BEST!
Wow, at the speed that extractor was spinning, I was waiting for LIFT OFF !!!! LOL
You and me both! Holy smokes! That thing was on FIRE XD
Best comment ever!
That extractor is also a part of the new NASA INTERSTELLAR PROJECT.
Greetings from Germany and a happy new jear. 3 ..2.. 1.. lift off . . .
Always wanted to know how this was done. THANK YOU!
I find bees very fascinating.
Honey = Bee digested Nector (aka Bee vomit). Nature is amazing.
Exactly the beauty of nature just unimaginable.
Worms poo= lovely soil or dirt
Munure = to beautiful roses and flours
Cows dung used for so fuel economy and fertilisers and flooring.
Amazing how the creator of all this does not allow us to waste .
‘There emerges from their bellies a drink (Honey), varying in colours, in which there is a healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.’ - Quran 16:69
Also, most of what we absorb from what we eat is vomited up from our own bacterial colonies. What’s nice though, is this process acts as a filter and protects us. The microorganisms or bugs take the brunt of the unhealthy toxins and bacteria with them and leave a much more healthily digested product. The nectar they bring in before it is brought down in moisture content and put through the enzymatic process of the bee is awful. I mean, it’s definitely not inedible, just an acquired taste. It’s full of all types of minerals and vitamins that make it taste super bitter. Also, probably has a good helping of bacteria and potential toxins from plants humans can’t eat. There are many colonies in China notorious for their toxic honey, unfortunately those bees do not filter out the toxins. Does supposedly make for an interesting experience if digested in moderation, haha. But you’re right my friend, nature is amazing. I love how intelligently it is designed yet artistically it moves. It’s truly something of immense beauty.
@@honeykha9914 oh he allows us waste.... it's just exceptionally useful!
This is wonderful!!!! Thank you for sharing so many details of the process. Question: What do you do with the beeswax cake at the end??? Sell it? Use it for something???
You can make candles. You can also sell it back to equipment manufactures and they use it to make wax foundation (for frames). We plan to use it to make some lip gloss, but we keep talking about it but haven't done it yet. Maybe after this season!
@@BrookHillHoneyMrGsHoneybees can you kindly help us do a video on how to make the candles with the wax. Thanks
We will! We have four years of wax, soon to be our fifth harvest in about a month. We will make a video of the harvest, and then hopefully make some lip balm as well as some candles.
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing to us such an amazing informative and educational about bee 🐝 keeper .
Great job your fantastic and a real joy to watch , thanks a beeillion
Amazing production . have orange blossom with much less yield .but golden clear .liquid candy .great vid thanx
I would love to learn how to harvest my own honey. Thank you for your video.
Thanks for your kind words. Check out your local area - typically there are local beekeeping clubs where you can get mentored.
This was very informative and well edited video. Thank you very much.
Peeling those wax caps looks sooooooooooooo satisfying. I want to get some bees JUST to do that part. LOL
Hahaha lolololololol 😂😆
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This my first year. I’m amazed they clean up messes. My son could learn from the girls.
I only have girls. Its a personality thing. Some are clean, some aren't. Bees - clean up always...
*Honey with mint* or chamomile flowers is very tasty !
Mint honey has some hotness to it.
epSos.de I can only imagine
That extractor sounds like my RC helicopter in your house. Crazy 🤪
Bees are my favorite animal, so much life wouldn't exist without them. God is a bee
This video is priceless.thank you for doing it.
This was very informative. Thank you! I'm considering trying it this year..
unapologetic truth Huh?
Ive been watching a lot of bee videos lately and this is fascinating to watch! That honey looks so yummy!! 🐝🐝
Lovely. I think you guys are ready to go professional.
So thankful for all the knowledge that you have shared in this video.
I’m so wanting to get into beekeeping, we just bought a house in the county.
No reason to wait
get a hive and find a local keeper. No better way to learn!
Thanks very good Mike from Michigan
Getting the caps off of the honey was verrryy satisfying
This is so rad!!!! I want to start my own beehive now in the backyard!!
So Satisfying and enjoyable. I would like to try this one day.
Very cool. What amazed me about the process is how well the honeycomb stands up to the spinning. The was is much tougher than I thought
It is amazing how they will reuse the honey and fix the honeycomb
honeybees are so amazing in so many ways!
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I'd try the electric knife in a down and away motion, safety first ;)
you guys are way too neat and clean ..really appreciated
This was so great! Very informative, thank you!
Beautiful harvest! Thank you for sharing!
Sweetheart make a video or a video series on how to start , where to start , how much money you need to start , how to maintain or how you're maintaining the bee firm , A-Z process of honeykeeping .
I'll appreciate !
I might suggest reading a book to cover all the topics listed. Also, as one guy to another, calling a woman "Sweetheart" is never a good move.
Calling someone a "Sweetheart" must change regionally. I have always thought of it as compliment to a person's kindly demeanor regardless of their sex.
In the south we call people sweetie and sweetheart
don't you mean to call her... "honey" hahahaha.. i hate myself
+BadW01f 2 ROFL
Outstanding job. I so want to add bees to the farm. Hard to do on a part time basis. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot.
You can do it! At first, when you are learning it is good to go in and inspect bees each weekend, but after a few years, we don't spend nearly as much time now that we have learned from practice. Find a local beekeepers club. Many have mentoring programs to help you learn.
I've just become a Beekeeper
Phillip Shaw cooooollll
Me as well. You need a teammate?
no, you've just become a honey harvester
@@garcex1382 what does a beekeeper do
@@MasterSkug keep bees lol
I am curious where you got the bucket/with wire rack (that the honey drained into) and the setup for the sink when you were removing the wax caps. I will be harvesting this year for the first time and am trying to get all my equipment needs in place. Thank you - this video was great!
Thanks for your kind words! Any bee supply company has a similar product, and I am sure a local bee supply store would also, if you are fortunate to have one in your city. If you can't find one, leave me another note with your preferred bee supplies company and I will help you find their equivalent product.
Thanks UA-cam this is my 8th bee 🐝 video after watching the first one about a queen being rejected recommend by you
I love watching this, with the cuttings, if you soak them in hot water and agitate them every so often for about an hour first before putting them out for the bees, the liquid combined with 2Lb of raw honey from the bottom of the cutting box makes 1-gallon of wonderful mead. It is a shame you don't live in the UK, I would share the mead if you shared the raw honey.
I'm a non-drinker, but if I lived on your island, I would share honey with you. Hopefully , someone else will read it and try it.
@@BrookHillHoneyMrGsHoneybees I have one who does already which is how I know about it, but anyone in the far north west of England reading this I am game if you are LOL.
WOW ONE DAY I WANT TO TRY BEE KEEPING AND COLLECTING HONEY!
19:10 Do you ever melt down the wax cuttings to make your own CANDLES ???
Not yet, but plan to someday soon. First I would like to use my wax to make lip gloss.
Great vid. Thanks. Now I want to get into it myself even more :-)
Where do the bees go when you take the trays out? Do they come back? And do you have to do anything to get them back?
As you shake them off, after they land on top of the other frames, they either walk back into the box, or if they fly, they would fly to the opening and walk in. Most of them just crawl back in. Bees are "GPS" oriented, so you could take a bunch of them, drive a few a bit away, and they would make it back home no problem
Pretty interesting, you learn something new and random everyday lol, thanks for the video 👍
how long does it take for the bees to make a 5 gallon bucket of honey. what do you feed the bees. whats the difference between Costco clover honey (5 lbs for $15) and yours.
5 gallons of honey is about 60 lbs. If the honey flow is strong, a colony of bees can make that in two weeks. I don't feed the bees unless they are light on stores going into the winter. They will take sugar water, or sugar straight. You can also swap honey frames in from a hive that has extra.
2:01 in the morning watching this in nyc not knowing a damn thing about bees and I got to go to school tomorrow but hey I’m here might as well enjoy it.
MiniGunTurtle some buildings in NYC have beehives on the roofs
trés beau travail ..trés propre..rien a signaler j'adore votre style....