Jim - we all had a meeting and we need more Vino Farm in our lives. That is all.

@rstlr01

3 жыл бұрын

I would say this is still true!

Just have to say that your channel is so much fun to watch...there are lots of beekeeper channels, but I like yours so much. Why? You! You’re down to earth, but keep a sense of humor and a positive outlook. I like that you allow us to learn with you versus teaching from behind the podium, if you get what I mean. You’ve brought us into your story, I guess. And you have really developed your on camera presence...clearly, you are now perfectly comfortable being yourself and talking to a little electronic box out in field by yourself, lol! Thanks for doing this 🙋🏻‍♀️

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Very kind words. Very encouraging. Thank you.

@lshaffer1980

6 жыл бұрын

I concur. I am so nervous to start my bees. Since November when I started watching Bee videos on your tube I probably have watched over 100 hours of videos. Vino Farm is my favorite I feel like we have all gron together. The failures of year one have made a better beekeeper out of him.

Seeing you welcome the new bees was adorable. They're so calm and sweet :3 Welcome New Nuc Italians.

These bees are adorable! Them just waking up and being so sweet and gentle! I can't!

I am a beginner and I love the way you talk to your bees

The cutest baby bee hive

Hi! I recently started to watch your videos, without any knowledge about bees or beekeeping . Now I can't stop watching! I watch all the #3 series like if I was watching Netflix,even better, I lear soooo much! And I can even understand the feeling of satisfaction and pasion that beekeeping gives you. Also you are soooo much fun to watch! I loved the video were you dance and also the "awkward" silence that usually do when thinking😂. I hope your passion becames bigger every day. Wish you love and happiness. Agos from Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷❤️

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Hello in Argentina! I am happy to have you watching. Thanks!

@Avocadito

5 жыл бұрын

Also from Argentina, but in Florida, binging your videos is giving me the confidence to start beekeeping next year, thanks

Welcome new bees! Couldn't have a finer home! Smiles and blessings...

Cutest nuc installation EVER. Even before you were like "isn't that adorable" I was like "THEY'RE SO CUTE ALL SLEEPY!!"

The cutest bee introduction of my life.

Love bees. More bees. More more more. Lol. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting, so much to know..... it's a little daunting.

i liked the end.... "check out this buckwheat" Idk why, it made me smile though

I can't get over these bees. So chill. Amazing.

I can't believe I am keeping up with all the 'oddball' names of your hives and their positions in your yard. Great videos. Keep it up, from OZ Down Under. PS....our bees seem a little more agressive than US stock. They must be trying to match the local flora and fauna.

😂 the reaction of the nuc to being opened could not have been more different to the Russian nucs! I am devouring your bee playlists! They are a joy to watch and I have been over the last few days. I would love to be able to keep bees one day. Thank you for all your hard work and pure love and excitement you have for your bees

Well Jim... I'm hooked on your colonies. I love you channel and i have zero intention on ever keeping bees due to having an anaphylactic reaction to their stings but i love watching you keep yours! We need new names for all the colonies now! My suggestions: The Russian Honey badgers The Balboas New package Italians -> The Creed Hive New Balboa Walkaway Resource Nuc -> The Rambo Hive New Package Walkaway Resource Nuc -> The Creed II Hive New Balboa Queen x New Package Italians Nuc -> The Rath Hive (Stallone's character in Assassins) New Russians x Carolinian Queen Nuc -> The Wolverine Hive New Balboa Walkaway Medium -> The "Expandables" Hive (Not a typo, it's worse, a pun) New Balboa Walkaway Emergency Nuc -> The Breslin Hive (Stallone's character in Escape Plan) New New Package Italians -> I don't have a good one for these guys... Other than the Stallone Hive. I tried to only list the queen right ones. But i may have gotten confused.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Ariana Clark Thank you for the kind words and suggestions. That was a lot of work.

"well... isnt that adorable" they are rubbing their eyes getting ready for the day and the russians were already prepared to sting out your eyeballs i like these bees, they seem so chill

I would mix some Ultra bee pollen sub with 1 to 1 syrup until made to a consistency of toothpaste. Lay it over a 3" X 5" piece of plastic and squish it down to 1/4 inch of baking paper on top of it in between outer frames and top board. My strong hives go through it in 3 days. Feed lots of Sugar water during a July/August Dearth for your starters. Once they get foragers going it will be easier. Watch out for wonky comb with the black foundation if it is 4.9 mm. Have found yellow rite cell at 5.4mm works better. Test the new ones for varroa asap being your yard is nearly varroa free. Love Italian Queens. Walked out 3 days ago without protection and fed them 50 lbs of Sugar. Going on to 800 lbs for this first year. Come Fall here in central California (Foothills) it will change. They are bringing in some strange white pollen. Have to find out where that is coming from.

I have become obsessed with your bees vlogs. I am allergic to beestings so beekeeping in not in my future, but I am fascinated by bees. So I enjoy watching your videos and learning about them as you have been. Good luck with your big bee yard!

I was watching you put those frames in the new hive and I thought to myself, "He's reversing the frames." Just then, you realized it yourself, un-reversed them, and all was right with the world. :) Those are some calm, calm bees. I hope they are still doing well.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Brandon's Bees Ha ha... I could have just edited that out, but then I'd have far fewer comments. #youtubesecrets

Keep up the videos!!!!!! I love em! I get super excited when you upload about your bees. I am really hooked on your videos and Im always on the watch to see when you upload a video! Great work Jim! Keep them rolling!

So a few months ago I said you'd go into winter with 12 hives if you did splits and at that time - you thought I was a (you were polite) crack pot. Now, since you have the idea, go for the bakers dozen and make up one more split before September! I'm thinking I'd push for another Russian as they aren't as lazy as the Italians during a dearth. One MORE Jim.... go for it! GL ~Always Bee nice to your honey~

@lshaffer1980

6 жыл бұрын

So this isn't too much too quick?

Love the use of Italian music for this.

thanks for the vids

Cute!

Just started watching your videos! And I love your style and updates to everything! Keep it up man

It's nice to see a Massachusetts bee keeper I started my first bees last spring in leominster and these videos give me lots of information since I don't have a mentor so thanks for being detailed

I have yet to come across a hive where I can not wear a full protection gear. Gloves and all. It just amazes me everytime I see you without gloves and wearing shorts. I'm envious. Great stuff sir.

3:54 - Wholesome bee content. *H E L L O* 4:32 - Some alternate wholesomeness.

I love watching youre channel. I live in the netherlands, you tel it real good that even my husband understands what you mean. Thank you for showing and telling al about youre bees and farm. Btw, loved youre tomato series. 🤩

Best commercial for reason to use Italian queen lines.

The more I watch the more I want to get a hive! Stop making such good videos!

Ur bees are always so adorable and calm(by that I mean the Italians ones). Everything is looking really good for u this year!

From all my (2) years of experience I have learned that bees love to make comb in the spring, but not so much as the summer goes on. If there's one thing I will never have enough of as a beekeeper, it's drawn comb! Some people like diamonds and gold, I prefer honeycomb. ;)

Just started beekeeping this year and took my first Honey a few days ago over here in the UK . Love watching your videos, so much fun and so well done , learning lots. and being entertained what more could we ask for !!

awesome as always..

I'm afraid of bees in my own yard, yet watching your videos makes me realize over and over again how beautiful bees really are, and how if you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you. But I think it'll take a while before my mind is like "Okay, bees aren't really that bad! Maybe I can actually coexist with them!"

Love these videos, can't wait to get my own hive in a couple years

The buckwheat looks awesome! Great job on all of your videos.

Good 👍👍👍👍

Loved the clip from the Russians hive 🤣

Welcome, new Bees!!

We need more vids. My vote is two a week.

Wow. Even more bees. I hope all of these hives make it through the winter. It will be interesting to see how well that many hives do in your area. Are you planning to rent your hives to growers? I heard growers sometime rent hives to help pollinate the crops. Blue dot would be 2010, which seems wrong. Only one year younger than the original Queen Balboa. If that's right, this could be her last season. I thought I saw the start of a queen cup on a frame. Might want to keep an eye on that.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

I stated in the video... the blue dot does not indicate the year. It is from the breeder and indicates the genetic line. This queen is from last summer and has overwintered.

Welcome new bees!! So exciting!! We need a new name for you guys...hmmm...maybe Lazzaro, Corleone, Ferdinand, Nicholas...or just for the Queen...Adelaide or Constance?? 😁😁😁

you live in paradise be careful--I am up over twenty hives--Its more addictive than crack---lol

Love your videos! :)

I was so excited to see this! Although I’d be lying if I didn’t say that about all your videos! I’m hoping to start my hives next spring and was leaning towards a nuc vs a package. I’m in Virginia and just applied for the bee grant. The state has a 60% loss of hives last year so they are giving away hives! Thanks for all your work in sharing your journey with the bees, I so enjoy your videos!

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Best of luck with your bees!

@lshaffer1980

6 жыл бұрын

I just read about the Bee Grant in VA. I am so jealous. Good luck. I am starting next year also. I got all the hives this year and will by the bees next year.

"Hello. Welcome"😂😂😂 love it

Good job on update, usually missing on most videos.

Thanks !!

Did you just see that giant hole on the second frame you picked up??? Thats due to natural drawn comb. I'm going to try this, because I'm hearing that pressed wax sheets and plastic sheets have like a 6.4mm size, which is closer to drone cells. 4.6-5.2mm is the natural size that bees make their wax, and its been said that allowing bees to draw their own wax, they are stronger in every way. Just an idea to consider. I'm certainly going to give it a go. And it looks like your buyer did as well.

a new video. Yayy!!

Watch out for all the spiders in the buckwheat! Please keep us updated on the nuc, it's kind of late to be installing one and hoping for growth, especially with an over-wintered queen as they really shut down their laying after the summer solstice. Nice video, thanks!

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

I always notice a big build up in August and September. Maybe things are different in your location with your bees.

That is some good editing right there. :)

that was so cute. I can't want to get mine.

I agree with chaszrainsford - need more Vino Farm videos As a totally brand new beekeeper - I find your videos so helpful. I like how clean and neat you keep your bee yard and how you manage your bees. So far my bees are gentle like your Italians and it is nice to go watch them and say hello (I say hello too). I should have filmed my first varroa mite test (completed last weekend) and posted - it was comical to say the least I am curious why packages seem to come from Georgia...(all around here the keepers seem to get them from Georgia as well). I am thinking the winters down there are mild enough the queens keep laying and thus there are bees to be had in the Spring whereas we will be fortunate to have any bees.. Keep posting the really interesting content.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Kristen, The south is just more bee friendly climate. They don't have a winter like we do up north. Their season starts earlier and goes longer. More farms. Earlier nectar and pollen. Lots of reasons. More suppliers down there realized they had a bee advantage and just got into the business of supplying all the northern beekeeping losses.

@kristenmain4457

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty much what I had concluded. Question - under what circumstances do you decided to put out dry pollen ( you have used an old box with a bottom board and cover in the past) away from the hives. Under what circumstances have you been using pollen patties. THX

Great channel.

2017 Russians = Pantera 2018 Italians = Mr Rogers neighborhood

I thought it was Gilligan by the thumb photo. Now i wonder if they had a bee episode.

Awsome content as always

You got lucky friend. Maybe time to make some mead.

If you coat the plastic frames with a thicker layer of wax the girls will draw it out faster especially if there is a flow, but also having the extra wax already on the plastic deters them from making cross comb, alot of our colonies dont like to bulid on the plastic frames so i use my larger colonies to establish the frame first usually only two new framess at a time also i feed them sugar syrup with all new frames unless there is already a flow on and this helps to get the frames drawn out. I think Its too much effort for a young split or packaged bees to work on new frames. We use the same debth box for brood and supers I like using wax foundations in the brood box and plastic in the honey box, having wax foundation in the brood boxes alows me to cut out queen cells from swarm prevention and use the good ones to requeen or to start nuc colonies and the plastics hold up alot better for traveling and in the extractor, we have recently started using one piece full plastic frame with foundation due the maintenance required with timber frame plastic insert and sometimes the decapper likes to eat them whereas the plastic frames glide right in

New keeper here, just finishing my first hive - What I'm finding is everybody installs bees differently lol

I loved the ending ... as you were walking to the beautiful field of flowers the scene reminded me of the movie the Sound of Music. Your flowers are much prettier than the grass in the movie. I plan to purchase a nuc myself and was wondering, why not just place the frames directly into the new hive? Thanks.

Great videos jim, always interesting and well edited. Greetings from a mild(by your standards) tasmanian winter.

Love the videos. Before you close them up for winter, can you do a family tree of all your splits?

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I want to do a full explainer video but it will probably be after things slow down this season. It's a winter project.

Wow.... Mid-July....Late ...cool. Wish I could get a Nuc in July/August in Northern Cal since I just lost a colony. :(. Best Wishes

I am glad that you caught that you were inverting their home when putting in the frames! :) I was going to point it out to you otherwise. Jim, have you ever tripped while stepping over your fence? I know that I would be all the time. :D

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Yup! I've tripped over the fence a few times. I'm extremely cautious when I'm carrying bees, but I get lazy stepping in and out grabbing tools. Still haven't caught a fall on video, though!

Sounds WAY Good to be true

Make me laugh so hard. Between italian and russian bagder bees. 😂😂😂

Where you get your Italians Nuc? I am in Essex County. BTW, Great channel!!!!!

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

See 1:15 - Also listed in the description... Autumn Morning Farm, Barre, MA

You can get them to work your new frames if you put one in between two brood frames

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes. If they're still not building up by this weekend, I'll checkerboard them.

Put the bees in a small greenhouse let them pollinate flowers.easier to contain them.

Those bees were smart one of them should sting you right away just to establish dominance. Lol

I just had a nuc that I was feeding and it was disappearing Well they were next to a really strong hive that would take it all from them I would reduce there entrance till they build up

Great video. Thank you! What kind of sugar syrup do you used? Water with sugar?

@vinofarm

2 жыл бұрын

1:1 sugar to water by weight.

I'm so new to beekeeping that all I have is a hive I built...no bees yet. It's early July and I've been hearing I need to wait until next spring to get bees. But here you are, installing a nuc in the middle of summer. Would you recommend that I, as a rank novice, try to find a nuc this summer? Or should I wait until spring?

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely wait. Watch a lot of KZread videos this winter. (With beekeepers in a similar climate). Sign up for “bee school” classes in your town or county. Take the class. Order new bees over the winter and install them next spring. Do not start beekeeping in July.

Aww how cute....no wonder they love you so much, you baby them 😏. Great video as always. So that is 12 hives now ?

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

10 queenright, 1 waiting for evidence of a mated queen, and 1 frankenhive that is 1/2 queenright and waiting to combine with another 1/2 that is queenless. Hoping to be all 12 officially queenright this week.

Those plastic foundations, even wax coated, seem to be last on the bees' preferred "home" list. According to many other beekeeper KZreadrs.

Late July nucs? Hope it was cheap. Getting frames drawn after the solstice can be a challenge. Give them a drawn frame or two from your other hives, this late in the year they are going to have a tough time building up.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Shannon Wyatt I keep getting this comment, but I don't think people realize the flow and buildup we have in August and September. Every location is different. I'm only in season three, but I have seen hives build right into October in the last two years. They have months to build.

@shannonswyatt

6 жыл бұрын

My point was really more about getting a nuc this late. Normally you would want to get a nuc prior to your primary flow, which I'm assuming has past for you. At this point you would be better with a young queen since she is going to be more likely to lay later in the year than an older queen. But I really think you should pull a few frames from your other hives to build this hive up quick. The queen can only lay if she has a place to lay, getting them some additional comb from the other hives won't significantly affect the other hives, but it could get this one bulked up quicker.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Shannon Wyatt Giving them more drawn comb is probably best. I figured they'd build right up but it looks like they were getting robbed right after they arrived and never got situated. I'll find some drawn comb for her. This nuc is from a solid supplier and he knows the region. I am absolutely sure they'll build up OK. This s queen is from last summer, so relatively young. I have enough brood and resources floating around the bee yard that I can add to them in a month if they're lagging. I really think they'll be great, though. Same line as "New Package" queen.

Hello. I really love your videos. Waiting for the next one impatiently. Please tell me which software you use to edit. Greatly appreciate

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Pa Knives Hello, I edit with Final Cut Pro on an iMac.

No new drawn comb and no increase in stores with a gallon of feed ? I would be reducing their entrance significantly ...methinks other bees might be helping themselves :)

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

DreamofaHive This was my thought, too. I realized it after watching the footage. Excluder is on now.

I may have missed something but a wile back you talked about a queen less give that looked like it may have had a tiny stunted queen in it but you weren't really sure do you mind me asking what happened to that hive/is happening has it got a new queen or have you just left it or some other surprise 😂? Also I think that atleast one of the hives should be named Freya as that name represents love and I personally just think it is a very beautiful name. Also watching the newest bees emerge and look around slowly was like watching a child being welcomed to the world.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

That is an ongoing saga. I am behind on editing, but the full story will come out soon. Stay tuned!

@Miniredfoxette

6 жыл бұрын

Vino Farm thank you I know you have lots of editing and I can't wait for you to come out with it no matter how long it takes because I'm sure that you are very busy. I also wanted to thank you for posting these videos because they are amazing and the time and effort that you put into those bees is beautiful and I thank you for letting us be a part of that experience.

I’ve wondered for some time on this point. With all the space and sheds you have, why is there a Thule Car Roof Pod stored in the bee yard.

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

I found it for free on the side of the road. It had no lock, but it was still watertight. It makes a great place to store tools and wood shims and queen excluders and other bits and bobs in a clean, mouseproof, waterproof spot. I have a couple truck other boxes placed strategically around the property with odds and ends stored in them. So when I'm out in the back field and need a pair of pruners or a hammer or some tape, I can walk over to a box instead of walking all the way back to the house. There's common things that I always need and don't feel like carrying around. So I leave them in waterproof boxes.

@JohnVK5JAK

4 жыл бұрын

@@vinofarm That's one of the problems with living on acreage. The long walks needed to get that one thing you forgot.

There's a video from a Russian guy who raises them in plastic bottles makes it so much easier.

3:46 Jajajajaja ... I remeber people told you that the agresive ones were the italians and it came out to be the russians... lol.

hello Jim. qestion from a city guy noob. : Do you harvest the honey or are you more into having the bees for pollenation etc for your apple trees etc etc ?

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

bigliftm The honey is not the ultimate goal. I will harvest some honey this year, but I’m definitely in this for the bees first. Check out my video: “it’s not about the honey” kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6Fty7eRoq6aYsY.html

Stopped boring work to watch a Vino Farm video! Congratulations! With them so quick to drag out dead bees right away, I wonder if they are those hygienic bees that cut out varroa infected cells. Will be curious to see how clean this hive is compared to others.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is what I was thinking, too. Looking good so far!

@scottrobbins9320

6 жыл бұрын

Can I ask you a question? I'm growing buckwheat too, a late season, should be blooming up when I pull the supers in a couple weeks. I was going to gather the seed for re planting next year. Was hoping you knew more about that and could do a quick tutorial on it? Sorry to ask if its not something you are interested in. I'm just not sure how to collect and prep the seed to store for next spring. Also experimenting with some of the buckwheat in a shady area... would like to see if I can make a shade resilient breed of buckwheat. So far, about 10% of the buckwheat is coming up in that area... very good.

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

I literally just tilled the soil and threw the seed on the ground. I did it last year, too and quite a bit of it came back on its own. I didn't harvest the seed. I just let it re-seed itself. This 1/2 acre plot was $50 worth of seed. That's pretty cheap. Cheap enough to make me not want to deal with harvesting seed! I don't have any seed harvesting equipment and I can only imagine the hours it would take to hand-harvest in order to save $50. I've tried lots of different field crops and buckwheat grows the easiest for me. Your soil may be different. Sorry if that didn't answer your question.

@scottrobbins9320

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That answered my question perfectly. Seems like there is no easy method. Will probably only bother with my seeds that thrived in the shade.

Help, I live in central Kentucky. I have a NUC coming Saturday morning and it is suppose to rain all day. Should I place the NUC outside near the hive or in a garage? Do I need to feed them & how? Weather looks good to install bees in hive on Sunday. Obviously, I have never had a hive before. Thanks

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

If they're in a nuc, I'd put them out near their hive and open the entrance. Let them fly and orient to their new location. Don't leave them sealed up in the garage. If they were a PACKAGE, I WOULD leave them inside for a day and put them in on a clear day. But a nuc is a hive. They can be out in the rain. They are used to flying, but they need to orient.

Wow and you just put them somewhere and they stay and live there?

These were ligustica bees right? I keep melifera (alt. melifera/carnica cross breed) my self. Thinking of calculating the cubital index to know on which hives to breed. Love your videos! /Jesper, Sweden

I'm just curious about one thing: When you opened up the new nuc box entrance, why did you not have it facing the entrance to the box that would soon be their home....or set them side-by-side, rather than nose-to-tail, so to speak? My understanding was that their sense of location was so accurate that the difference of a foot or so might be disorienting....and the ensuing 'waggle dances' might have them looking for a box that wasn't there anymore. Great to see the Vino Farm apiary thriving! Thanks, Jim! :-)

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

They orient based on a visual of the hive opening and what's behind and around it. When you see bees orienting, they face the entrance and fly figure-8s staring at the entrance. So if the boxes were facing each other, they'd be orienting 180º the wrong direction. Doing it the way I showed, will get the foragers back to the same orientation, with the he same backdrop and surroundings, but just 18" away from an opening. They'll fly forward and go right in.

@normjacques6853

6 жыл бұрын

Aha!! Thanks for straightening me out on that! I was under the impression that that 18" was more critical than front-to-back orientation.....which was obviously an incorrect assumption!! BTW, those have to be the most laid back bees I've ever seen...anywhere! They're off to a head-scratching start, but you've seen plenty of "What th'??" behavior this year, and look at how well your yard is doing! It's going to be fascinating to see how they develop. Another great video! Thanks again, Jim! :-)

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

18" left or right would confuse them, but they'd figure it out pretty fast. 18" forward or back (but in the same orientation) would hardly make a difference... but a full 180, even in the same exact position would really mess them up and frustrate them.

Do you have to let them orient before installation or was it just because of the time of day you picked them up? Awesome video

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

You could just put them in, but I like to give them a few hours to settle after the car ride. I put them right in front of their new box so while they do go out and start exploring, they will orient exactly where they are going to be living.

I recently got a VSH Italian queen myself. Unfortunately I couldn't find a local breeder, but she is doing great. Random question I have been meaning to ask. What do you use to seal/stain your boxes? EDIT: Also looks like robbing going on, have any robber screens to put on your splits/nucs?

Can you show how the feeder you use is built? I live in a place where many insects love to steal bees syrup, I tried different solutions but i still find a lot of ants eating syrup in my feeders Ever had this problem? Thanks BTW love your videos... very interesting

@vinofarm

6 жыл бұрын

Here's my video about it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnl1s66Jl7qtl6g.html

Where did you get your buckwheat seed?

I heard that bees don't like drawing comb on plastic, and you have to at least dip the plastic in molten wax to get them started. That's just what I hear.

@vinofarm

4 жыл бұрын

I buy plastic foundation that comes pre-waxed. It is available that way for a little extra money and saves a lot of hassle.

How many hives does he have now?