Chris, Thank you so much for posting all of your videos. I learn a ton from your videos on how to properly keep my bees. I am newer at bee keeping. I started with and have only used Warre hives. I appreciate your willingness to educate others.
Tim Morris, thank you for the feedback. I greatly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me via email (sweetvalleyhives@gmail.com) if you have any specific questions. I don't pretend to have all the answers, but maybe I can steer you away from repeating mistakes we've made.
Thanks for the video, Chris. I appreciate your experimentation and sharing of results. One suggestion, you might want to put a more "obvious" link to your website in the comment area below the video, it makes it easier for us to go straight to your website. Took me a moment to realize your logo is the link. Those boxes look very nicely made!
Chris, keep up the work on the great vids. I've learned a lot about Warre hives from them. However, I'm unclear about honey harvest from a Warre hive due to this video. Do you need to super a Warre hive? I thought the standard methodology was to let the bees migrate down adding boxes below as needed and then presumably taking the top most box off to collect honey. Will the bees put honey into the comb in the top box that previously contained pollen and brood? Is it generally all honey at this point or do you typically still have brood when you want to collect the top box (non-super). Thanks!
Strix Outdoors you don't need to super a Warre, we just did it as an experiment. We wanted to see what the bees would do and now we love the Warre supering process.
So my hive would only consist of two boxes? One brood box and one small super? Or what? Or at spring I'm gonna use a brood box and a super and when needed I'm just gonna add brood box below and maybe get the first brood box full of honey aswell by the end of the season? How this system works. Can you please explain. I'm going to start beekeeping 2019 spring and with Warre hives
I think its easier to keep it all the same, why i went frames and use deeps and 10 frames hive bodies. JUST EASIER Even my honey suppers are deeps. They fill it out just as fast as shadows suppers. and to make less or buy less stuff, Less time hunting down things too. Bee Keeping can be a money pit!
And therein lies one of the beauties of Beekeeping. We can all customize our approach to that which suits us best (philosophically or financially). We have said from the beginning that there is no wrong way to keep bees. It has been said that in order to make a small fortune in Beekeeping you must first start with a large fortune.
Chris,
Thank you so much for posting all of your videos. I learn a ton from your videos on how to properly keep my bees. I am newer at bee keeping. I started with and have only used Warre hives. I appreciate your willingness to educate others.
Tim Morris, thank you for the feedback. I greatly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me via email (sweetvalleyhives@gmail.com) if you have any specific questions. I don't pretend to have all the answers, but maybe I can steer you away from repeating mistakes we've made.
Thanks for the video, Chris. I appreciate your experimentation and sharing of results. One suggestion, you might want to put a more "obvious" link to your website in the comment area below the video, it makes it easier for us to go straight to your website. Took me a moment to realize your logo is the link. Those boxes look very nicely made!
I am curious about the result of the hives that I had made according to your method. Thanks.
This means that you do not use the barrier grid for the queen?
Chris, keep up the work on the great vids. I've learned a lot about Warre hives from them. However, I'm unclear about honey harvest from a Warre hive due to this video. Do you need to super a Warre hive? I thought the standard methodology was to let the bees migrate down adding boxes below as needed and then presumably taking the top most box off to collect honey. Will the bees put honey into the comb in the top box that previously contained pollen and brood? Is it generally all honey at this point or do you typically still have brood when you want to collect the top box (non-super). Thanks!
Strix Outdoors you don't need to super a Warre, we just did it as an experiment. We wanted to see what the bees would do and now we love the Warre supering process.
Pretty cool! I think it's a great idea too especially if you get nice clean comb. Thanks for the prompt response.
quick question. Should I install the super on a fresh install or wait a few weeks? Thanks for the great videos.
So my hive would only consist of two boxes? One brood box and one small super? Or what? Or at spring I'm gonna use a brood box and a super and when needed I'm just gonna add brood box below and maybe get the first brood box full of honey aswell by the end of the season? How this system works. Can you please explain. I'm going to start beekeeping 2019 spring and with Warre hives
I keep trying to check out your website but it says it’s under maintenance the last month or 2
I think its easier to keep it all the same, why i went frames and use deeps and 10 frames hive bodies. JUST EASIER Even my honey suppers are deeps. They fill it out just as fast as shadows suppers. and to make less or buy less stuff, Less time hunting down things too. Bee Keeping can be a money pit!
And therein lies one of the beauties of Beekeeping. We can all customize our approach to that which suits us best (philosophically or financially). We have said from the beginning that there is no wrong way to keep bees.
It has been said that in order to make a small fortune in Beekeeping you must first start with a large fortune.
yep i agree Main thing is to make it fun
Or just ignore all of this and use a queen excluder so she can't get in to your larger supers to lay eggs in the first place.
True, but where's the fun in that? Utilizing Human manipulation when natural means are available?
Thats a good joke lol. The whole hive is human manipulation.
Your perception, your reality. Have a wonderful Life my friend.
Are you still in business and/or still selling Warre hive parts?
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