Sugar Cake Recipe Beginning Beekeeping GF TV video
Here’s a video on how to make sugar cakes to feed your bees in winter. Overwintering your honeybees is challenge, here is one way I help the bees overwinter, feeding them sugarcakes with…
Insulated Inner Cover Beekeeping 101 GF video
All the hives we have lost have been in the late winter – early spring due to condensation. This year I am determined to eliminate condensation from our hives. Here is a beginning…
Harvest Honey with a Bee Escape – GF TV
When you harvest honey from your beehive, you need to get the bees out of the honey super ( the box of frames that has honey it it, usually the topmost super )….
Beehive Ventilation Beekeeping 101 GF TV
A new video in our Beekeeping 101 aka Beginning Beekeeping video series. We had a real hot summer, like everyone else, and honeybees can overheat just like we can. So when I went…
Bait Hives, Bee Swarms and Swarm Traps, Beekeeping 101 : GardenFork.TV
I built some honey bee swarm traps, or bait hives, to try to capture any bee swarms that came out of the beehives in our beeyard. Swarm Traps, or Bait Hives are basically…
Dead Bees? Beginning Beekeeping : GardenFork.TV
When you walk up to a hive and see no activity, you immediately think, why are my bees dead. Watch here as we do an early spring beehive inspection to see what’s up…
Winter Check : How to raise bees : GardenFork.TV
When raising Honeybees you need to check on the bees and the beehive during the winter. Part of our beginning beekeeping how to videos, here we check on a hive after a winter snowstorm.
Bear Proofing Your Beehive : Beginning Beekeeping : GardenFork.TV
In this video, we talk about ways to Bear-proof beehive. The largest danger to our beehives are bears. They are very common here in NW CT. We read an article on bear proofing…
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,…
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…
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.
