Installing 20 Bee Hives in the Bee Castle Bee Yard. |
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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Please take a moment and discover Bee Castle Beekeeping. Bee Castle provides a wide range of beekeeping supplies and excellent wood-ware.
www.beecastlel...
You can also find Bee Castle on Amazon:
www.amazon.com...
For more frequent updates in between videos please visit the Bug Farmer Instagram page: / thebugfarmer
About this video: Today we will receive, build, and install 20 Bee Castle bee hives in the new Bee Castle bee yard. This is the first day for the new bee yard.
About this Channel:
I hope you enjoy beekeeping and this video. If you are interested in becoming a beekeeper or experience backyard beekeeping for yourself have a look at some of the videos on this beekeeping channel as well as videos from beekeeping creators I have listed below. This is my third season as a beekeeper and everything I have learned came from UA-cam and mostly from the channels listed below.
Although this beekeeping channel is primarily about beekeeping I am also a quasi pepper who believes in becoming self-sufficient. With that in mind, I have started a garden, planted fruit trees, replaced the hedges in front of my house with blueberry bushes, and have recently built a chicken coop. In short, I will share a lot more than beekeeping on this channel.
A little about me:
I am a person who believes you are never to old to learn something. Be it beekeeping, farming, raising chickens, painting, filming and editing video, making wine, beer, bread, cheese, and other fermentation consumables, play guitar etc... If I see something I want to try I start it immediately. If there is one thing I could choose to pass along to my children this would be it. Never be afraid to try. My wife famously told me once that if you are not willing to be bad at something, you will never be good at it. That means I am bad at quite a few things.
A little about you:
If you are new to beekeeping or are interested in becoming a beekeeper this channel might be for you. In my beekeeping adventures I show everything from my beekeeping successes to my beekeeping failures. I hide nothing and am never afraid to admit to a mistake.
I hope you find my beekeeping videos fun and entertaining as well as get something out of them. I hope I inspire someone to get out and try something new. If you do enjoy my videos, please take a moment to spread the word about this channel and help it, and myself, grow. Have a great day and BEE Happy!
My Mentors:
Vino Farm
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Frederick Dunn
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Mike Barry
/ @mikebarrybees
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The gear I use:
Primary Camera: Sony FDRAX53/B 4K HD
Secondary Camera: Sony FDRAX53/B 4K HD
Primary MIC: Sony ECMXYST1M Stereo Microphone
Secondary MIC: Sony ECMXYST1M Stereo Microphone
Tripod: ( GEEKOTO Camera Tripod
Editing Software: Adobe Premier
Graphics Package: Adobe Photoshop
Learning Final Cut Pro
Channel Key words:
#beekeeping #flowhive #insects #prepping
A bit about my channel:
This channel is primarily about beekeeping or more specifically beekeeping 101 because I am just a beginning beekeeper and I figured the best way to learn beekeeping and to be a beekeeper was to buy a flow hive, sometimes spelled flowhive or a flow hive 2 which is sometimes known as a flowhive 2 and begin building by backyard apiary so I would have a place to keep bees. Now, backyard beekeeping is not the only thing I do. I consider myself to be urban farming as I also try to grow a sustainable and edible landscape. Backyard farming for me also includes keeping chicken and building other things in my shop that will help all of the birds, bees, insects, and other natural pollinators. I learn how to feed bees and chickens while showing you my day-to-day activities in my apiary, sometimes known as a bee yard. Some people consider me a prepper and yes there is a little truth to that. I do consider this a form of prepping and becoming self sufficient. Thank you for spending time with me learning about tap hives, flow hives, honeybees, and chickens.
Now that's a stupendous new bee yard. With all the fixin's!! Can't wait to see the results from the Farm Yard Hives!! New Video for you in the morning!!🐝🐝🐝🐝
I can,t wait. The coffee is brewing. :-)
I love my Bee Castle Bee Hives!!
I know right? That is how I felt since I reviewed it months ago and why I agree to work with them. It's a great product. The only hive I have had that is better quality are the laser cut flow hives which cost 1,000.00. Thanks for stopping in to have a look.
Another awesome video! It must be a dream come true for a company to sponsor all these beehives for you! I hope you're having a lot of fun. Have a good day!
Thanks. Yes, I am very happy to be working with Bee Castle. They have great hives so I am happy to share their products with my audience. Thanks for stopping and taking the time to comment. Take care.
I need a nap after watching this great video! So much work!
Whew... I was worried I messed up the editing and it put you to sleep. I has been a ton of work but it's all coming together.
Sweet very nice to see it all up and running good. Great looking yard buddy.
Thank you so much for the well wishes. I really appreciate it.
Great video! Those Bee Castle hives look so very nice. The apiary looks fantastic!
Thanks Paul. It has been a ton of work so far but it's paying off.
Great video. You are going to have a busy, but amazing year. .
Thanks. It is turning out that way.
Happy little bees!
They are happy. Bees living in a bee paradise.
Looking great.
Thanks Mike.
Looking good! Just ordered a bee castle nuc to prepare for my first split!
Woot woot!!! The first split :-)
Looks awesome! Good luck.
Thank you.
The new boxs are sweet my friend
How are things north of the boarder?
@@BugFarmerBees things are ok im keeping busy
The new yard is looking great those be Castle hives look awesome. And we certainly miss our Subarus.
My outback, my girlfriend's Forester...
How goes the gardening and the chickens.
Between these and diy solar Ive been busy and seeing my bees I expect a reasonable honey harvest. And hopefully rain to keep our Texas drought down
Hi William. The garden and the Chicken are doing well. I just had a rant about the garden the other day on Instagram. Basically, Miracle Grow Garden Soil is a scam!!! It was completely sterile. Milorganite saved the day though. For more timely update you can follow me on the Instagram at instagram.com/thebugfarmer/ Thanks for stopping in and taking the time to drop a comment. Take care.
Looking Good
Thanks Bradley.
All looking good exept for the stands. Once you get a few supers on they'll start to sink into the ground. You might want to nail a cross timber front and back to spread the load.
I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks.
Christmas in May ! Looks like you had a lot of fun putting your adult leggos together. All the boxes from bee castle look great and I assume they are all wax coated. I have heard nothing but good things from other channels about bee castle products. Thanks for taking everyone along for the ride. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend :)
Thanks MJ. They are wax coated and I am happy to be setting up the new bee yard. I am already planning Mothers Day Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. The Filet Mignon is in the fridge and the wine has been chosen :-)
Will this apiary be referred to as the 101st Division? Congrats on going bigger!
They were the first to jump into new territory weren't they? :-)
Looking good! Your craftsmanship on the hive stands and that awesome sign really make those beecastle hives look great! I hope the queenless ones get queen right for you quickly so you can use up all those honey supers!
I do some re-queening in an upcoming video. All of the hives are in great shape and expanding. Three of them are suppered already :-)
@@BugFarmerBees That's awesome! They must be in a really good location!
I looked at the hives went damn for the money im buying one, for my latest bees this spring.
Great video. But , I wouldn't let the entries wide open for these relatively small bee-colonies.
I added the reducers before I left that day. The colonies are all buzzin :-)
I've had great success with my bee castle hive. And my Hoover hive. I like the beecastle so much more. But in my experience I couldn't get the bees to draw good comb in top box of either brand in mid flow no matter how strong of colony. I was painting so new boxes (different brand) and tried painting the telescoping covers in white paint by chance and fixed my problem. My bees are in almost full sun though. If ya run into this give it a try. Yard looks great man
Thanks. Do you think it was due to the heat that they wouldn't get into the top box?
@@BugFarmerBees that's what I was thinking could of been the issue.
I might do the old nickle trick to provide ventilation.
Looking good as always! Keep the videos coming. Did you have a reason not to add entrances reducers?
I added them after filming.
How long did it take you and your son to assemble all those hives, then to set them up?
Did you buy your bees while housed in those nuc boxes? If yes, did it add much to the cost?
You even made your stand so the boxes could just “sliiiide” on in!
I think it took the better part of an afternoon to build all of the boxes and another day to build and ad extra wax to all of the frames. As for the bees, I actually split 20 colonies fro my primary bee yard and put them in the ProNUC boxes. The stands were quick and easy and cost about 7.00 each. The price of a board. I have a one board build video showing how I build the stands if you would like to make them for yourself. You will find it and others in my upload stream. Thank for stopping in to have a look at my channel and taking the time to comment. Take care.
@@BugFarmerBees Thank you for replying.😊
I see three orientations of the bricks, parallel to the long axis of the hive, perpendicular to the long axis of the hive and standing up. As the first orientation is the most common, I assume those are queen right, but what do the other two orientations signify?
For some reason this comment appeared twice so I will answer it twice :-) Very observant. The bricks tell me if the hives are queen right, Queen-less, or Virgin/queen cell
@@BugFarmerBees Probably a glitch somewhere, meant to comment only once.
@@apveening Do you know what GLITCH stands for? Gremlins Living In The Computer Hardware ...Just an interesting bit of trivia 🙂
@@BugFarmerBees Love it, thanks.
Wow! That was a long rewarding day. Gotta love those solid cedar bottom boards. The plywood one last about 2 seasons before the front delaminates. Just curious, do you cut small notches in your inner covers for top venting/entrances?
No. I have a HUGE problem here with hive beetles. The only way in or out of one of my hives is the front entrance. If I see the bees are getting too hot I will build a vented shim with a tight woven screen to vent the hive. The temps are ramping up around here so I will know shortly.
@Bug Farmer oh yeah, I forgot about your hive beetles. I have black bears but very few hive beetles. I think I would rather deal with the bears.
me too :-) SHB suck!
I see you have modified the hive stand. How well are they holding up as compared with the older version?
So far so good. The old version is still rock solid and these are new but I am confident they will be fine. These are for the 10 frame hive and the others for 8 frame.
Every time you said Bee Castle Hives, i thought of my channel. . Lol
I am giving your channel subliminal plugs. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees Hahahaha
You should ask vinofarms for some Balboa queens.
That would be awesome.
With Bee Castle sponsorship are giving up on bee barns? Are you going to heat your Bee Castle hives? Are you going to open a booth at Hive Life representing Bee Castle?
No. No. They haven't asked me. But I am going to share the benefits of their hives with anyone who will listen. I really like their hives which is why I am working with them. They are value priced and well built. there is both utility and value in their products and being someone who studied economics value and utility are to things that make very happy :-).
wont sun/when sun gets hotter wouldt it start to melt that plastic on top?
That plastic was just temporary to allow the bees who had left to forage a way to identify the hive they left in the morning. I have since removed them.
You need a pick up truck my friend!
I do. I have been thinking about harvest next year and I really don't want to have honey leaking all over the back of my car. I guess I'll be looking for an el'cheapo pick up somewhere. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees All I have is passenger vehicles, but one is a Chevy Express. Any time I haul something that could potentially leak, I add a drop cloth from your favorite big box home improvement paint section. Saved me a cleaning nightmare several times.
Leveling all those hive stands would make me regret making individual stands.
It did take a little work but I need to be able to get my cameras around the hives.
A VERY SERIOUS question.
How do you manage to have a 2 car garage, that you can actually get 2 cars in? 😉
I keep my junk in the basement :-)
how did you assemble your frames? I froze at 1:48 mins. and can't see staples, nails, or glue around.
Pretty tricky huh :-) I use a brad nailer and nail upward from the bottom of the top bar and horizontal across the tabs in the bottom bar. All frames are glued too :-)
@@BugFarmerBees Are the boxes glued as well?
It’s predrilled u should be fine just don’t drive the screw deeper then the pocket
didn't want to take the chance. The boxes assemble so tight without the screws they are almost superfluous. :-)
I see three orientations of the bricks, parallel to the long axis of the hive, perpendicular to the long axis of the hive and standing up. As the first orientation is the most common, I assume those are queen right, but what do the other two orientations signify?
Very observant. The bricks tell me if the hives are queen right, Queen-less, or Virgin/queen cell
@@BugFarmerBees Thanks