Beekeeping is something I want very much to be able to do. They are such awesome little creatures, so thankful to God for making them and all they do for us.
I actually came to your channel because I saw a swarm video and then stuck around learning so much more about what you do and became a faithful follower because of the beautiful bees. I got hooked with everything and the apothecary was the second reason why I stayed and will continue to be a part of your community to continue learning as much as I can. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful experience with us ❣️🤗❣️
Greetings again from Alberta Canada. Just love watching your processes. I'm pondering all mistakes I made when I had 10 hives. 35 years ago in BC. I'm 85 now, no bees but still love bees. Verne here!
I caught my first swarm a couple days ago!!! It’s was most likely from hives on my property. I actually got to see the swarm happening, and then later found them, caught them, and now have them in a Layens swarm trap!! Soon to be moved in to their new Layens Horizontal hive!! Thanks for the information & encouragement at your workshop!! You all are awesome! And now we have bees at The Healing Homestead!!! 🐝 🐝🐝
Always love when moving into a new hive the bees sticking their butt in the air in the same direction wiggling and in synchrony very slowly marching towards it :DD
Spring just got REAL busy for you all.😁Swarms are so FULL of energy and life. Get ya some queen clips, your new suits pockets are not stocked.👍 I actually started watching because of honey bees and stayed for the interesting plant info.😂Plus you mom is funny. You all have a wonderful Lords Day.
Wow, well done I started to watch you catching swarms a few years ago and have come back now because of the medical herbs that you are teaching us, thank you for sharing.
You have so much to teach! I have so much to learn! Thank you! This is a very exciting video!!! And calming too. I love to watch you catch some feelings! That's so cool!
I really do love how you explain through "show and tell" what is going on. I've been beekeeping on and off for a few years and I STILL feel like a newbie, partly because learning through books, formal classes, and other RUclipsrs can be a bit dry and too technical. Thank you for making it sound simpler!
Love watching a swarm being caught. Your girls did make it easy for you. Mine come next month. I do have a swarm box set up and am praying for a swarm 😊 thank you for sharing such a wonderful gift with us
Just found your channel and I Love your love for your “girls”! We just put out our first ever swarm traps last week and hope to have our own Golden Girls real soon…wish us luck!
What an interesting and exciting video, never thought bees 🐝 can be so interesting and calm! 😳 I am moving to my homestead hopefully this year and would love to start beekeeping and making 🍯! Get the feeling Honeystead is going to teach alot! Thank you.
We have swarm traps out and waiting for the first swarm, this year, to add to our apiary. Also, we are managing our hives to keep them from swarming. Best wishes, Rick
I understand the problem my hive swarm after I went to a friend's house and caught a swarm two weeks ago and one week ago caught a swarm at a nother friend house . This is so much earlier than last year.
Wow! That was amazing. Never have I seen that done before. We have 2 hives here on the ranch for pollinating our fruit crops and the honey bees and mason bees do a wonderful job. I will now do my best to catch a swarm or two just because I can then say I did it. God Bless Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch Canada
Fun yet frustrating part of keeping bees. Try to stay ahead of them, but it never fails there is always one or two that get out in front of you. Enjoyed it!
As an Australian hobby beekeeper I am glad to see you in an Australian designed Oz Armour bee suit. Popular here and very good quality. Even when the bees get a bit narky, nothing gets through that suit. Great video :)
I found you coming to mind this morning when I was listening to my willow trees sing. I love this time of year because all three of my huge Willows starts singing with bees. I pull up a chair and listen to the concert. It lasts about a week and I relish every day.
When I was younger in elementary school a swarm decided to land on me, it wasn’t that many but it was a lot, I was wearing this yellow zip up hoodie and bee’s just started landing on me and I stood still and didn’t freak out at all and I remember looking at my hand and they were digging into my nails and then I blacked out and the next thing I remember I was waking up in the nurse’s office and they wouldn’t give me my hoodie lol. I can’t wait to have my own hive one day! I’ve always loved bee’s and I love watching them in my garden 🐝
Three weeks ago I pulled 18 splits from my full size colonies. 15 of them raised their own queens and they’re laying. One split either completely absconded or they went back to the original colony. One split hadn’t made a queen so I gave it a frame of open brood with a lot of eggs. One split made a poor laying queen. Shotgun brood so I plan on snuffing that queen and giving the split a frame of open brood . So far I am having a 97% success ratio.
I am thankful you are having good weather down there, here in south central pa we are having cold cold breezy and rain, can't get in the hives to even do trovanoff splits , and the bees can't get out to do there work and to my surprised I had for swarm late Monday , two of the swarms had to stay in the tree, for the night do to heave rain, I can't believe they did that in bad weather conditions
They last swarm I helped a friend catch the landowners and friends that happened to be there all pulled up and sat down close drinks in hand and watched the march after I got it going. Fun times.
Love the video ! Also the tip on how to use the frames . I’m a 3 year beekeeper all my swarms have been 20-30 feet up …never at lower level. Awesome to know what they like …all those queens !!! Wow ! 💕🐝
I definitely enjoy the bee lessons along with the herb lessons. I don’t have bees yet, but one day I will. So in the meantime I use the info you share to just love the native bees that visit me
thanks for sharing your passions with us. i found your channel because of the beekeeper portion but got interested in beekeeping myself because of my quest to learn more about medicinals. It is a circle I am learning. I really appreciate having learned so much from you about my girls and how to handle them. Jaime B.
There is nothing like catching swarms. It does connect you with the bees in a more intimate way. So I have to agree this is the best part - except for the ones that are 30 ft up a tree! 😉
Omgoodness. Honey could be 1 million $ a pound, id still pay, or (realistically) go without. I commend you Kaylee. Man, my skin is crawling and im horrified and in just magical awe. "You're a bee charmer Idgie Thedgood" ♡♡♡♡
This was beautiful to watch. Thank you! Did you or could you go over where to set up the bee hive on the property? I see you have yours next to the garden but I read it's not good to put them where there is people traffic in the yard. Is this true?
Next swarm try to use differant nuc boxes for each queen. Or two frame mating boxes then you can proof them for a month then jump to larger hives. Great job. Keep on keeping on. God teaches us all day by day.
I've found your bees and honey content fascinating and it got me wondering something...I see a lot of talk about raw honey vs. processed honey (bear squeeze bottle). What would your method be considered and what's the difference between the two types of finished product? Also, will raw honey crystalize like the processed honey? Please keep doing what you're doing, all the content is fascinating! I've started some herbs for the first time after watching some of your videos and I'm looking forward to some holy basil tea this year 😊
That's so cool I needed to see that I lost my bees over winter, someone posted they had a swarm they needed someone to get but I was scared because I had never done that I feel a little more comfortable trying now.
So its a fence pole in Virginia. We callem fence post in east Tennessee...cedar being the best. I have some sticks I whittle on of cedar that Must be 2oo years old. Your awesome. I love ...e
Have you ever looked into using tuning forks on the bees? Maybe the Schumann forks which is the resonance of the earth. Its a very calming frequency. Eileen Day McKusick on youtube is pretty much THE expert on the biofield tuning topic which is one of the beat healing modalities out there IMO. Anyway, I like to share forgotten knowledge with those who are open and interested. Electro Culture Farming is another forgotten technology that's really taking off (Elevate Cultivate on youtube). If these resonate check them out. You'll know right away if they work or not.
oh why couldn't I have seen this thursday. My only hive swarmed and they were on a post in my yard for about an hour while I tried all wrong things and they flew away. This will help me next time. Now I'm going to try to make queenless splits from what is left. I've never done that before either.
Question: I am in Virginia and was told when setting up a bee box to put it in full sun because they like the heat but other beekeepers say keep the beehive in a shady place and/or sheltered in the winter. What’s your best advice for placement - full sun or half-shade?
Help! Lol I have mason bees and homes for them. This year my bestie and I were supposed to start beekeeping together. Well there were moldy hive inserts I had to clean and have them outside in a Rubbermaid container. Making a long story short I just found out a few mins ago I have honey bees that are making a home in my grill shelf. Should I get more trays and try a walk down method like you do with a swarm? I don’t have a swarm and I thought the honey bees were our mason bees but they’re honey bees 🥰. These bees are in a metal narrow slat of the shelf on the grill. Small holes… My friend has bee homes on her dads property, but we weren’t ready to set them up yet. But in this case being new and not wanting to hurt them I’m looking for advice
The Holly trees are blooming and FULL of bees! We're out in the middle of the Deep East Texas Piney Woods. Do you have any tips on finding bee trees? My husband is a retired logger and used to bring home pieces of the trees with bees in them. We'd let them settle a bit then transfer to a hive. But that was him finding by chance. Is there a way to actively hunt them down?
Greetings from Poland in europ. You are beautiful beemother
👏👏❤️❤️👏👏 I love watching your swarm season
Nice swarm!!
Beekeeping is something I want very much to be able to do. They are such awesome little creatures, so thankful to God for making them and all they do for us.
I actually came to your channel because I saw a swarm video and then stuck around learning so much more about what you do and became a faithful follower because of the beautiful bees. I got hooked with everything and the apothecary was the second reason why I stayed and will continue to be a part of your community to continue learning as much as I can. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful experience with us ❣️🤗❣️
same here - the bees got my attention :) interesting to see how different people approach it
Came for the bees 🐝 stayed for the VARIETY of lessons 👍 your channel is Awesome !!!
Greetings again from Alberta Canada. Just love watching your processes. I'm pondering all mistakes I made when I had 10 hives. 35 years ago in BC. I'm 85 now, no bees but still love bees. Verne here!
I caught my first swarm a couple days ago!!! It’s was most likely from hives on my property. I actually got to see the swarm happening, and then later found them, caught them, and now have them in a Layens swarm trap!! Soon to be moved in to their new Layens Horizontal hive!! Thanks for the information & encouragement at your workshop!! You all are awesome! And now we have bees at The Healing Homestead!!! 🐝 🐝🐝
Always love when moving into a new hive the bees sticking their butt in the air in the same direction wiggling and in synchrony very slowly marching towards it :DD
I am not so new to your channel. Catching swarms is my very favorite videos you make. It is so fascinating to see. Looking forward to the next swarm.
Spring just got REAL busy for you all.😁Swarms are so FULL of energy and life. Get ya some queen clips, your new suits pockets are not stocked.👍
I actually started watching because of honey bees and stayed for the interesting plant info.😂Plus you mom is funny. You all have a wonderful Lords Day.
This is great! Thank you for sharing. Bees have been on my list for a while and I think I might get started this year finally. ❤
Wow, well done I started to watch you catching swarms a few years ago and have come back now because of the medical herbs that you are teaching us, thank you for sharing.
I have learned so much listening to you catch your swarm, such a beautiful experience to watch.
Wonderful vlog; thanks for sharing! Awesome technique that will help someone with their bees! Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦
Beekeeping is one of the fascinating jobs to pursue in this life. Very impressive, thanks!
You have so much to teach! I have so much to learn! Thank you! This is a very exciting video!!! And calming too. I love to watch you catch some feelings! That's so cool!
Thank you for the awesome educational beekeeping video!
I haven't gotten bees yet but I'm hoping to catch some this year.
I really do love how you explain through "show and tell" what is going on. I've been beekeeping on and off for a few years and I STILL feel like a newbie, partly because learning through books, formal classes, and other RUclipsrs can be a bit dry and too technical. Thank you for making it sound simpler!
I’m still learning too, I didn’t know about there being multiple queens!! That’s awesome!!
That was so fascinating to watch, and really educational. Thank you for sharing. 🐝
Had bees years ago before house fire, but the one thing like you be prepared ahead of time with your supplies! Love the videos!
Love your coughing bees thk u for sharing ❤️ with me about beautiful bees and your Garden. Thk u .
This is fascinating….it’s why I follow your beekeeping journey. Thank you so much.
❤what a tremendous BLESSING❤ This is incredible Bri😊😇🥰🤗
Love watching a swarm being caught. Your girls did make it easy for you. Mine come next month.
I do have a swarm box set up and am praying for a swarm 😊 thank you for sharing such a wonderful gift with us
Just found your channel and I Love your love for your “girls”! We just put out our first ever swarm traps last week and hope to have our own Golden Girls real soon…wish us luck!
What an interesting and exciting video, never thought bees 🐝 can be so interesting and calm! 😳 I am moving to my homestead hopefully this year and would love to start beekeeping and making 🍯! Get the feeling Honeystead is going to teach alot! Thank you.
Love to learn from the bravest people around, OUR Beekeepers..
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We have swarm traps out and waiting for the first swarm, this year, to add to our apiary. Also, we are managing our hives to keep them from swarming. Best wishes, Rick
Happy Keeping 🐝🐝🐝
I understand the problem my hive swarm after I went to a friend's house and caught a swarm two weeks ago and one week ago caught a swarm at a nother friend house . This is so much earlier than last year.
Wow! That was amazing. Never have I seen that done before. We have 2 hives here on the ranch for pollinating our fruit crops and the honey bees and mason bees do a wonderful job. I will now do my best to catch a swarm or two just because I can then say I did it.
God Bless Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch Canada
Just so special to see. Thank you ❤
Fun yet frustrating part of keeping bees. Try to stay ahead of them, but it never fails there is always one or two that get out in front of you. Enjoyed it!
As an Australian hobby beekeeper I am glad to see you in an Australian designed Oz Armour bee suit. Popular here and very good quality. Even when the bees get a bit narky, nothing gets through that suit. Great video :)
It’s a very good suit!!!
I found you coming to mind this morning when I was listening to my willow trees sing. I love this time of year because all three of my huge Willows starts singing with bees. I pull up a chair and listen to the concert. It lasts about a week and I relish every day.
Oh I could imagine how beautiful it is to sit under the willows and listen to them 💛💛💛
When I was younger in elementary school a swarm decided to land on me, it wasn’t that many but it was a lot, I was wearing this yellow zip up hoodie and bee’s just started landing on me and I stood still and didn’t freak out at all and I remember looking at my hand and they were digging into my nails and then I blacked out and the next thing I remember I was waking up in the nurse’s office and they wouldn’t give me my hoodie lol. I can’t wait to have my own hive one day! I’ve always loved bee’s and I love watching them in my garden 🐝
Oh wow!
Three weeks ago I pulled 18 splits from my full size colonies. 15 of them raised their own queens and they’re laying. One split either completely absconded or they went back to the original colony. One split hadn’t made a queen so I gave it a frame of open brood with a lot of eggs. One split made a poor laying queen. Shotgun brood so I plan on snuffing that queen and giving the split a frame of open brood . So far I am having a 97% success ratio.
I am thankful you are having good weather down there, here in south central pa we are having cold cold breezy and rain, can't get in the hives to even do trovanoff splits , and the bees can't get out to do there work and to my surprised I had for swarm late Monday , two of the swarms had to stay in the tree, for the night do to heave rain, I can't believe they did that in bad weather conditions
That was so educational and truly amazing. Thank u for the education!
I’ve been away a while dealing w/ life but finally back! And just in time for my favorite subject. Honey bees! Thanks 😊
OMG i cant believe you have a swarm right next to whole apiary... Who would have guessed?!?
Awesome job of capturing all of this, always wanted bees 🐝 but never have been able to take time for it so l watch you do it
My 8-year-old grandson was ENTHRALLED with this video! Your enthusiasm for God's creation is so evident!
They last swarm I helped a friend catch the landowners and friends that happened to be there all pulled up and sat down close drinks in hand and watched the march after I got it going. Fun times.
I love when that happens!
Love the video ! Also the tip on how to use the frames . I’m a 3 year beekeeper all my swarms have been 20-30 feet up …never at lower level. Awesome to know what they like …all those queens !!! Wow ! 💕🐝
I'm so excited for bee season. Bring on the bee swarms!
Our girls swarmed twice in two days last week. I think two different colonies, but I only saw one of them when they left the colony.
I definitely enjoy the bee lessons along with the herb lessons. I don’t have bees yet, but one day I will. So in the meantime I use the info you share to just love the native bees that visit me
I am fairly new to beekeeping. This is a neat way to do it! Very interesting!
I love the bee March! Great job!
Thank you for sharing !! Love it
thanks for sharing your passions with us. i found your channel because of the beekeeper portion but got interested in beekeeping myself because of my quest to learn more about medicinals. It is a circle I am learning. I really appreciate having learned so much from you about my girls and how to handle them. Jaime B.
Thank you, this was very educational🐝 Got my first beehive at the end of the season last year, this is my first year being a beekeeper.
I started following for the info on the bees and the gardening was anextra bonus
Thanks for sharing your experience i so want to start a bee colony but want to learn more about them before I do.
Wow! I bet the feel of their vibration is so calming!
Verne loves this process also.
Own a homestead of 5 acres and would love to start keeping bees. Do you have any videos or tips for beginners? What to purchase, ect? Thanks.
There is nothing like catching swarms. It does connect you with the bees in a more intimate way. So I have to agree this is the best part - except for the ones that are 30 ft up a tree! 😉
15:29 queen lands on the entrance!!
Thank you for sharing ❤
All right, here we go. I have been waiting for. Love you in action.
Omgoodness. Honey could be 1 million $ a pound, id still pay, or (realistically) go without. I commend you Kaylee. Man, my skin is crawling and im horrified and in just magical awe. "You're a bee charmer Idgie Thedgood" ♡♡♡♡
I live in Turkey. Your channel is very nice. I also have bees. Where do you live and do beekeeping. I also need young friends who love bees.
Wow! So cool!
Allergic to bees here. I like watching you but can’t do it myself.
This was beautiful to watch. Thank you! Did you or could you go over where to set up the bee hive on the property? I see you have yours next to the garden but I read it's not good to put them where there is people traffic in the yard. Is this true?
Keep Queen clips by your empty colonies, in a box or bag that is shaded.
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Next swarm try to use differant nuc boxes for each queen. Or two frame mating boxes then you can proof them for a month then jump to larger hives. Great job. Keep on keeping on. God teaches us all day by day.
I've found your bees and honey content fascinating and it got me wondering something...I see a lot of talk about raw honey vs. processed honey (bear squeeze bottle). What would your method be considered and what's the difference between the two types of finished product? Also, will raw honey crystalize like the processed honey? Please keep doing what you're doing, all the content is fascinating! I've started some herbs for the first time after watching some of your videos and I'm looking forward to some holy basil tea this year 😊
That's so cool I needed to see that I lost my bees over winter, someone posted they had a swarm they needed someone to get but I was scared because I had never done that I feel a little more comfortable trying now.
💛💛🙌
This was really neat! Eventually I want to get into beekeeping 😊
Go for it!
Shalom
So its a fence pole in Virginia. We callem fence post in east Tennessee...cedar being the best. I have some sticks I whittle on of cedar that Must be 2oo years old. Your awesome.
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Fascinating!!
We love watching the March it is so fascinating.
I would love to know where you got your bee suit from, it looks very comfortable!
Today I caught 1, lost 2 and I have one up up uuuuupppp on a tree.
Mediterranian black bees. They're mine as well.
Did you find multiple Queen cells hatched in one of your hives to determine which one this swarm came from? The multiple queens is so interesting.
Have you ever looked into using tuning forks on the bees? Maybe the Schumann forks which is the resonance of the earth. Its a very calming frequency. Eileen Day McKusick on youtube is pretty much THE expert on the biofield tuning topic which is one of the beat healing modalities out there IMO. Anyway, I like to share forgotten knowledge with those who are open and interested. Electro Culture Farming is another forgotten technology that's really taking off (Elevate Cultivate on youtube). If these resonate check them out. You'll know right away if they work or not.
Love this swarm videos !
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oh why couldn't I have seen this thursday. My only hive swarmed and they were on a post in my yard for about an hour while I tried all wrong things and they flew away. This will help me next time. Now I'm going to try to make queenless splits from what is left. I've never done that before either.
Day old egg!!!! Make sure to give them that! Also you got this ;)
Man I have missed the bees 👍
New to channel. Binged watched. Good Job. Did all those things. Like subrule and shared.
A swarm came and nested into a power telephone pole, only options authorities gave me was a firestation hose or extermination
So i didnt do anything and left the bees alone
Good, it's over with the bad weather. The world will come alive again.
Question: I am in Virginia and was told when setting up a bee box to put it in full sun because they like the heat but other beekeepers say keep the beehive in a shady place and/or sheltered in the winter. What’s your best advice for placement - full sun or half-shade?
Since there were so many bees and multiple queens, why not populate more than one new hive?
Absolutely, but I wasn’t 100% prepared so I just caught it as a whole.
Help! Lol I have mason bees and homes for them. This year my bestie and I were supposed to start beekeeping together. Well there were moldy hive inserts I had to clean and have them outside in a Rubbermaid container. Making a long story short I just found out a few mins ago I have honey bees that are making a home in my grill shelf. Should I get more trays and try a walk down method like you do with a swarm? I don’t have a swarm and I thought the honey bees were our mason bees but they’re honey bees 🥰. These bees are in a metal narrow slat of the shelf on the grill. Small holes…
My friend has bee homes on her dads property, but we weren’t ready to set them up yet. But in this case being new and not wanting to hurt them I’m looking for advice
I always thought you can only have one queen per hive? What happens if there is multiple queens?
Not always, but yes… there is mainly one queen!
So COOL🐝🐝🐝🥰
Sweet golden girls 😂❤😂😂😂 good one
What a cool video!
very cool! Any idea why all the queens left the original colony?
The Holly trees are blooming and FULL of bees! We're out in the middle of the Deep East Texas Piney Woods. Do you have any tips on finding bee trees? My husband is a retired logger and used to bring home pieces of the trees with bees in them. We'd let them settle a bit then transfer to a hive. But that was him finding by chance. Is there a way to actively hunt them down?
A group of those bees might just swarm with a secondary swarm, or even a couple groups might leave.
It is probably second swarm... :)