How to Requeen a beehive : GardenFork.TV : Beginning Beekeeping

Requeening the hive is not rocket science, but you do need to know how to requeen a hive when you do this. This Beginning Beekeeping video will show you how to replace the queen in your beehive.

How to move a Beehive : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping

We decided to move one of our beehives, and learned how to move a beehive, and now we’ll show you how we moved the beehive.  ( that’s a lot of Beehives ) BUT, moving a beehive is not hard,  watch this Beginning Beekeping Series video and learn how.
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How to Hive a Package of Bees : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping

How do you get your honeybees into your new hive? Its called Hiving a Package; a package of honeybees that you are going to introduce into their new hive. As part of our Beginning Beekeeper Video series, we show you how to put honeybees into your hive. Its not complicated, even Eric can do it.

Late Winter Feeding : Beginning Beekeeping Video

In late winter, when you have a warm day, say 44-50 F, its a great opportunity to quickly check your honeybees and beehive. In this beginning beekeeping video, we show how we open the hive and place some fondant and a grease patty in the hive to get the bees through the last bit of winter. Your honeybees may or may not have enough food stores to make it thru this last part of winter, but I am of the mind that it pays to put in some fondant. Other beekeepers will have differing opinions on this, and many other practices related to beekeeping. It is too cold to feed your honeybees sugar syrup in late winter, feed them fondant.

Beginning Beekeeping, Preparing for Winter

In this Beginning Beekeeping show, we get the hive ready for winter. Raising bees is a great hobby, and here we show how we prepare the beehive for the coming winter.

Beginning Beekeeping : Fall Feeding and Varroa Mite Treatment

This is our first year raising honeybees in our new beehives, and I wanted to make how to raise bees beekeeping videos to show you all that you too can raise bees. We are not the experts here, but one learns by doing. So we do things, and we make beekeeping videos.
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Beginning Beekeeping : Hive Inpsection

As part of our series of beginning beekeeping videos, here we did a hive inspection this summer. Bees are easy to raise, you just have to maintain a few things thru the season, and a few hive inpsections are necessary. Watch here how how are learning to raise bees and become beekeepers.

Beginning Beekeeping : Harvesting Honey

Keeping bees is pretty cool and not that hard to do. even i can do it. Here is our how to harvest honey episode.

Our teacher, Jim, sent us an email after he saw our video with the following comments. Jim has strong opinions, like most beekeepers, I agree with most of what he says  here, [...]

Beginning Beekeeping : How to assemble bee hive frames

Part of our series of beginning beekeeping videos, watch as we show you how to assemble bee hive frames here.