First year beekeeping youtube

In this video I talk about whether you should expect to get some honey during your first year as a beekeeper. A few weeks ago I was leaving on vacation and the second honey super was just starting to get drawn out. Before I left I put on a new honey super which was c. How to obtain your initial bee colony? How do you start a bee hive? What is the scientific name for Beekeeper?

Honey bees and beekeeping are important things we can all do to help the honey bees out. This channel will covering beekeeping , and what ever else I can come up with. Honey Bee Hobbyist by Norm Gary—good overall understanding, rather than how-to.

Homegrown Honey Bees by Alethea Morrison. A fun journal of the experiences of a first - year beekeeper. January is the time to order your bees for shipment or pickup in April or May. Local beekeeping associations are a great place to start asking around for. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on.

Good for you for being interested in beekeeping ! I want to encourage all of our first time beekeepers to enjoy your first year. But keep your chin up and enjoy keeping bees. My two biggest mistakes not on your list have been 1) opening up the hive after it got too dark. The bees got very very defensive and I got stung through my vented gloves times on the wrists.

Know when to fee when to harvest and when to stock the hives among other things. Generally speaking, beekeepers harvest their honey at the conclusion of a substantial nectar flow and when the beehive is filled with cured and capped honey. Conditions and circumstances vary greatly across the country.

First - year beekeepers are lucky if they get a small harvest of honey by late summer. In case you are new to this conversation, I advise new beekeepers to start with two hives during their first year , using package, nucleus, swarm or purchased bees. Many bee suppliers will completely sell out of package bees by the end of January.

You must call and place your bee order as soon as you can during the first week of January. Otherwise, you may not be able to secure your bee purchases for the new year. You can take eggs from your other colony to try and make your queenless colony queenright. Lastly, new beekeepers often lose their hives.

Having two gives you a better chance of keeping one alive in your first year. Being satisfied with a limited knowledge of beekeeping. Update May 9: I’ve updated First Year Beekeeping , an added Oxalic acid dribble tips.

April 29: I’ve been derelict in updating the website, and have about articles to post. A number of ABJ readers have asked me to post the following graphic from one of my recent articles. Often, a new bee company fuels growth out of retained earnings, which means it may have very little debt. However, the company can grow faster with loans.

All the beginning beekeeping equipment will help you get started. Now that you have the knowledge, the big thing holding you back is money. Please know that good quality equipment is the foundation for your beekeeping endeavor. The first - year beekeeper wants everything “perfect.

The most frustrating time is when a hive (or hives) die. Do the best you can, hope for good bees and good weather. Beekeeping is a type of farming and it’s all at the mercy of Mother Nature. A few days ago I told you how we became bee keepers in May (to approximately 0bees, we bought lbs).

With the bee ’s becoming more active, and making their honey and more bees ( bee babies!), they are keeping us on our toes. Saturday or Sunday, we had one of the hives swarm. Your spring beekeeping inspection is the first of the season.

It’s time to start bee colonies or bring your colonies “back to life. The following calendar is a guideline for the major beekeeping activities throughout the year , valid for climate zones comparable with Melbourne, Australia - in the southern hemisphere. In the preface to this book, author Keith Delaplane says of.

If the thought of keeping your own bees appeals to you, read on. I set the queen excluder over the brood box and I currently have honey supers on top (full of capped honey).