Day in the Life of a Professional Beekeeper

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  • Опубликовано: 11 авг 2022
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    I visit a beekeeper in Sweden to see what a day of beekeeping looks like. I learnt about how honey is made, how queen bees are reared and how Kalle runs his small business.
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Комментарии • 285

  • @kathyhathaway8823
    @kathyhathaway8823 Год назад +236

    I see that the headline of this video said you are a professional bee keeper. Do not know if you take suggestions from other bee keepers or not but here is something I do not know if you have heard about or not an a little something to help you out . Have you ever heard about running only 9 frames in your 10 frame honey supers . What you do is pull one frame out of your 10 frame supers an then space out your nine frames equally in the box . What this does is the bees will draw out these frames thicker than normal an believe it or not you WILL get MORE HONEY in these thicker nine frames than you will get out of 10 thinner frames . YOU WILL GET MORE HONEY. Then if you pull one out of nine supers that is enough to make you another super with out having to purchase the frames all you have to do is purchase just another qbox that adds to your equipment cheaper and I do not know how you uncap your frames but it makes uncapping a lot easier to do . Also if you sale your capping wax it gives more wax to do with what ever your need is . I hope you understand what I I am trying to say on this because it REALLY DOES WORK OUT GREAT. You can make more honey and money with less work an less equipment an less time . Good luck from the USA . Keep up the great work.

  • @cones914
    @cones914 Год назад +1

    This is the most severe case of beekeeping I have ever seen.

  • @llchapman1234
    @llchapman1234 День назад

    Trust me Alex, you don't want to stumble across a bear or a moose.

  • @Caprifool
    @Caprifool Год назад +76

    Swedish former beekeeper here. How amazing is this! And it looks just like around here in Östergötland where I live. At most I had 37 hives and that year a average of 80kg honey per hive. That was hard work! I can't imagine having a hundred 😅 Good luck to you mate! 👍🏻

  • @hsavietto
    @hsavietto Год назад +130

    You know the guy is a pro when everything looks easy when he's doing the work!

  • @tamarahimmelstrand8985
    @tamarahimmelstrand8985 Год назад

    You learn to dress to not get stung by mosquito's. Like you can have a cap with a net hanging from it. You wear a loose jacket that protects your arms.

  • @mrsweettater
    @mrsweettater Год назад +19

    I can relate to Kalle. I too had a professional career until I finally said "screw it, I'm gonna raise bees!" I'm also a busker, which he mentioned early on. Life's too short to toil away for some corporate over lord!!!

  • @garden_creature

    Please don't use better help guys, most people know it's a big sham by now. Lovely video as always

  • @seanb5007
    @seanb5007 Год назад +93

    What an awesome documentary about Kalle and his bee-keeping! Your videos are always great, but this was excellent! Fascinating to watch, even though I don’t keep bees. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for the video!!

  • @billybutcherr69

    petition to rename supers into surplus cuz its self explanatory

  • @amberblyledge7859
    @amberblyledge7859 Год назад +28

    I have anxiety and depression bad enough that I need a service dog.

  • @ArisuOkami
    @ArisuOkami Год назад +49

    this man was so nice showing you his beekeeping business! seems like a lot of hard work, but im still interested owning a box or two in the future :D

  • @ronc7743
    @ronc7743 Год назад +50

    For some reason bee keeping has been in my head for a couple of years now. This makes about two hours of vids by you Ive looked at this morning. Very inspiring. Also, I once spent a year in Sweden and picking blueberries is one of my fondest memories, that and the Swedish country homes!

  • @robertling9872
    @robertling9872 Год назад +6

    Beautiful bees video, thanks for sharing.

  • @MelissaM83
    @MelissaM83 Год назад +4

    There's a blue bee in like Costa Rica or somewhere and they only eat lavender flowers so their honey is this blueish purple!!!!! They're so beautiful!!

  • @sarahp1383
    @sarahp1383 Год назад +8

    Very interesting watching the whole process of bee keeping/ honey gathering, documented so beautifully by you, Alex.

  • @robhind943
    @robhind943 Год назад +17

    Always a good day when Alex uploads on a Friday, Working day just got a whole lot easier!! had me scared for a second though.

  • @BartMolkenboer
    @BartMolkenboer Год назад +8

    Beautiful video! Kale has an amazing intelligence about these bee's I can see. Amazing how he takes every single element in perception

  • @mitijan
    @mitijan Год назад +3

    Hi Kale. Thanks for letting us and Alex spend the day with you.

  • @theworldoftrading4592
    @theworldoftrading4592 Год назад +3

    I'm British but living in the South of Sweden and about to start beekeeping so this was super-interesting for me 🙂