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Good video again Nathan. The kids are sure growing up. I lost about three weeks of honey production this spring with all the cool and rainy weather that had many windy days between weather system. Basswood is blooming and they are finally putting on some honey now. I'm glad I don't make a living producing honey. I hope your crop ends up being decent.

Always take time for family,,, Ya never know when your time is up...

Interested to know more about your hive scales

I'm curious to know your thoughts on if the cicadas have had an impact on the flow, since they do a considerable amount of damage to the thin branches of trees. I'm guessing it may have been the reason some trees went into panic mode and bloomed earlier, and I'm willing to stretch to say the earlier blooming fruit trees are going to be feeling the affects in fruit this year and blooms next year. My pears, plums, and even the wild black cherries have already shown issues and damage. I'm just on the other side of the Nashville Basin from you.

What kind of hive scale are you using?can you provide a link?

Thanks for sharing 👍 would like to see more on your scales ⚖️. How often do u feed nucs weekly Thanks

Do they make any honey from devils walking cain? It's a shame they dont make honey from Elder Berry that stuff is everywhere. Ive seen them work it but not much.

Are your migratory covers built like Bob Bennie's?

It's a hard balance between work and family. I'm happy to see you make it happen. Just wondering where that rock will be 10 years from now because my fireplace has a lot of rocks on it.

Olá amigo saudações do Brasil Se ai está em floração porque você estar alimentando as abelhas? Abraço!!

Highlight of my sundays.

Don't take any blue Chep pallets. They are property of CHEP and they recover them from Costco and puts them back in their pool. Take all the brown pallets you want, they are a one-way pallet and Costco isn't charged for them.

Nice 👍🏻👍🏻

First thing after my morning chores are done and I have my coffee in hand. I set down and watch your video. Keep up the good work.

Our basswood is silvery on the underside but I still can get a deep box in the right year. Must be some other variety. My sumac is something from China.. spreads around like crazy it's a big problem. Doesn't even have flowers it spreads with the roots and is very resistant to drought. When everything else is suffering this thing grows like crazy without any rain for months. We can't get rid of it. More you cut it better it spreads

Good luck on the flow this year! Glad to hear you started to get something! The flow in CT / MAS area has been phenomenal this year. I have a package hive this spring that just got its 5th med super. The milkweed I think is super strong and doing the leg work + white clover. We have a small plot of it and they all have 8 globes + new ones still coming out and its hammered with bees.

good summary of your honey flows. Thanks for sharing! Bee 🐝 Blessed!

First sting!! As Jesse would say, 😉"keep trying".

That green "rock" could be Prehnite. If it has round like made of "balls"... the "really cool rock". Where there's one... l collected so much of those here when I was a child. I still have them stashed 😂. My thresher got really heavy

Fingers crossed for a good flow over the next few weeks

Nathan I'm not sure if you go back and watch any of these but it's impressive seeing what you have done over the past 2.5 years. Hearing Bob Binnie talking about getting into Walmart and seeing your products now in Publix, you are definitely on the path to success. Thanks for sharing. I wish you continued success on your journey.

Hello. I have a particular question that was born out of my curiosity. As I am also trying to build a bee business, I would like to know how you finance building your bee business? - Personal savings, bank loan, government subsidy, just from selling produce or otherwise? Respect for what you are doing, I hope I can make it someday.

i find it ironic that the Yankee doesn't want people heading to Wisconsin. I feel the same about them coming down to Florida.

If the nectar was available they'd be making honey.....our story in NE Indiana also. No rain for a month, clover dried up and the basswood didn't produce. Quick storm today hopefully a little rain.

Are you a fan of the boxes with the cleats on them or you prefer the handholds?

I had to move a 40 ft shipping container with an old 65 horse tractor two wheel drive. Had to get a scoop of gravel to keep the front down and still move the container in a wheelie using the brakes to stear. It worked

When i find leyng workeri just put them over a nuc or hive and put the queen in a cagefor 3 to 4 days , bees have to have acces to her but the qeen have tu stai inside in this small space the bees can not kiil her but they can rub themselves and spred the pferomones all over the hive combined with egss and open brood the worker hum lay wil stop in this 3 to 4 days ,all the best from romania

At 14:30 or so, the doner frame has many of the open cells appearing to be back filled with nectar, I am seeing this very intensely here today. Worried they are going to plug out the brood box. I am out of drawn comb already, 30 colonies going, considering putting a box of foundation at the bottom of the brood boxes, giving them room to grow the brood area, hopefully preventing the swarming urges, and I will just let them cap the top brood box and harvest the honey. I run 8 frame medium everything so I could start moving frames around but I am out of drawn comb, so that gets tricky. Have you ever put foundation under the brood boxes to prevent swarming when they are plugging out?

What state are you in??

Your son seems to love bees so it appears you may have a helper in your honey business as the years move on! 💕 June 4th is my son’s bday. He turned 49 this year. I gave him a mug that says Turning 50 is exercise enough!!😂 Thank you for sharing another interesting and informative video. I do love honey 🍯 and enjoy watching the process.

Go for good, strong and healthy nucs! I'll be taking what I've been blessed with and grateful for every drop of honey received and still have enough for the bees. Slim pickings this year for sure. Weather still not cooperating hot, hot, hot and no rain in sight and more of the same in the extended forecast. Suspect the dearth will arrive early and stay long which doesn't bode well for the fall flow to supplement winter food stores. Sugar will be filling the shopping cart at this rate! Praying for rains - very thankful to have gotten a mite treatment in before all this heat arrived. Only lost one queen in 18 hives and she left behind 6 frames with beautiful capped queen cells so used those to repopulate 3-frame mating nucs that queens were just sold out of. Is what it is. Glad you have some helpers there in Reed and Parker!

Good VID lots of info

Ya know, I love my beekeeping hobby. I'm glad you and others are doing the commercial thing, but for me that would ruin a good hobby. It would turn it into hard work. More power to ya.

Thanks for sharing with us I look forward to seeing them ever week. 😊

My best results for getting the foundation drawn out is bucket feeders and 1 part sugar to 1.5 parts water.

What are your migratory covers made of?

🤨Watch out for them Black helicopters at night Nathan.😂

It's going to be a nice set up when you get it all set. 👍 🤨What are you going to do with all your extra time when you get it all built.😂Blessed Days Nathan...👋 I have wondered that myself, after the main projects are done what's next. I need a Honey house😏I guess maybe that's next for me.😮‍💨

It never ends with beekeeping. I don't know about one that would say he doesn't need more space... and throwing stuff away is difficult too. It always ends with l may need that

Building bees is easier than building the facility to manage them. If the facility is there, build away!! Love the vids! I enjoy them as I put my feet up on break

How many colonies do u have now?

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You are sure getting a lot of drawn comb this year. I don't want to see your sugar bill but it will be worth it in the future. I suppose you are on the honey pull now. Hope it is going well. We lost the last two weeks of flow with rain. Hives went backwards. Got 4 days without rain so maybe they will get busy.

My youngest loves to help with the bees. Frequently that means he has the smoker, smokes me, and runs around saying “I’m a train, I’m a train.” He also frequently tries to pick up a bee with gloves on, leading to predictable results. Good times.

What does bandwidth mean? I have eight hives this year. First year. I love the business aspect of your videos.

Would they want to backfill the brood box using a in hive feeder

Ok, show me your spare stash of blocks. I can imagine a pallet or two of them. Explane why that is the most efficient hive stand.

Great work, Reed and Parker! Hope they enjoy beekeeping and continue to learn by doing.

Have seen more yellow jacket queens than I've ever seen in my life this year... Have killed dozens (butterfly nets are great) and there are still more flying checking out every crack and crevasse they can find. Does not bode well for the dearth coming our way... hope I can find the nests and deal with them but that will probably happen while mowing OUCH! Linden in full bloom here but its not showing up in the frames as I figure the bees are consuming what they bring in. Going to be a long, dry hot dearth. Going to pull what honey I can and hit Walmart for sugar to keep the hives maintained and hope we get rains to fatten up the goldenrod and asters in August if not late July since everything has bloomed 10 to 14 days early all season. Have already started my "compressions" based on the lack of honey within the hives. Real shame as the spring had looked so promising until the rains came at peak nectar bloom (tulip and locust). Did manage to get in a MAQS treatment before the heat descended upon us so got the mites knocked down and bees "clean". Did have one hive go queenless with the treatment but the 6 frames of beautiful capped queen cells (already in purple eye stage) will produce some really nice queens for sale or use within the apiary in short order so have those mating nucs set up and even used some nuc sized double screened boards and stacking them double to use fewer resources - not going for increase just wanting the queens mated for sale and self use.

Great interview!