A bee coming in for some poppy pollen, in a stunning border garden at a friend’s Summer House on Upper Notch Road, Bristol, Vermont. Lest you think I was insanely lucky, there are probably three other bees already in this poppy flower, they were constantly coming and going.
Beekeeping is a fun hobby. You get to learn about the #bees, food cycle, #Pollen, #Honey, #beeswax and all things related to #beekeeping industry such as the different beehives, beekeepers tools and different methods for keeping bees, maintaining bees and managing various parasites and bee related illnesses. If you are successful though, you get to share in the spoils of the honey bee. Once the beehive and the bee colony living within it grows to strong and healthy size, they will start to to produce more honey than they can consume. In late spring to early autumn usually. At these times, you get to harvest a few frames per hive and extract the liquid gold that has been gathered by the bees and capped over with a thin layer of perfectly white beeswax capping.
Once you rob a beehive of its fresh honey frames full of raw honeycomb, you need to extract the honey. There are many tools and methods you can choose to achieve this. If you are only a small backyard beekeeper, you will most likely not have at your disposal a honey extractor or a spinner, and nor would you need one either. You can use a simple crush and strain method which is simple to do and very cheap to make the equipment for. Although this is a more labor intensive method, and will also completely destroy the honeycomb foundation, you can easily extract 20-50 honey frames in this fashion and also recover enough beeswax a few raw beeswax candles as well. In our video, we give you a few tips on how to extract honey using the crush and strain method. We also take a close up look at the fresh raw honey we extracted and reveal some of the health benefits of honey, propolis, and beeswax. Enjoy the video, thumbs up and share. To support our channel, we invite you to subscribe. Every vote counts, and we would be happy to have you along for our beekeeping journey. Thank you for visiting our beekeeping YouTube channel MahakoBees
I just wanted to share a few things you can do to help our little friends! bees are so important, and they need our love.
build a bee hotel
you can use recycled materials you have on hand to create them. ( hollowed bamboo sticks, toilet paper rolls, planks of wood, etc. ) it’s also a good craft for the kiddos. get creative & have fun with it!~
hang your bee hotel on a tree, or a high up spot where nothing can disturb it.
make a watering station
it’s super duper easy to do, and all you need is a shallow dish and some pretty stones! bees get thirsty, and you’ll be helping them out. especially when it gets real hot out!
plant flowers and herbs
not only is gardening fun & therapeutic for you, but the bees appreciate it too. also, you can use the flowers & herbs grown for your craft! bonus!!
here are just a few of their favorite plants:
basil
mint/catmint
rosemary
sage
yarrow
lavender
sunflowers
poppies
asters
zinnias
salvias
marigolds
cosmos
…and there’s waaay more! garden to your heart’s content, and watch the magic happen~
don’t use pesticides or harmful chemicals on your lawn or garden
this one is pretty self explanatory. if you want a safe environment for your bee friends, try not to use any harsh chemicals on your plants. if you have issues with destructive bugs, use organic methods to shoo the pests away.
here are a few organic alternatives to using pesticide!:
eggshells
hot peppers
tumeric
banana and orange peels
here’s a great site if you’d like to read more about it!:
