Is your Honey Alive with Enzymes or Dead?
Honey: Are Enzymes Alive or Dead? Is Your Honey Alive or Dead? In this video, we dive deep into one of honey’s most powerful secrets — live enzymes in raw honey. 🌼 In this video, you’ll learn: What makes real raw, unheated, and unfiltered honey so magical The health benefits of bioactive enzymes like glucose […]
Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method
Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method When a bee colony fails to raise a queen after a split, laying workers can take over—and that usually means trouble. In this short, I share how I rescued a queen-less hive full of laying workers using the old “dump and switch” method. ✅ This approach saved […]
Bees + Pure Nature + Real Honey
Bees + Real Nature + Real Honey The Birds and The Bees – Natural Refuge at EarthSong Conservation Area in Central Maine • See how a 600-acre sanctuary in Central Maine nurtures both the disappearing birds and honeybees—completely chemical-free, sugar-free, and plastic-free. 🍯🐝🦜 • See how diverse meadows, forests, and clean streams provide pesticide-free forage from spring […]
Beekeeping or Bee Hosting? Bees & Forest B&B
Beekeeping or Bee Hosting? Bees & Forest B&B Welcome to another update from my ForestBeehive apiary—this time from a newly relocated horizontal Layens hive now nestled in the heart of EarthSong Wildlife Protection Area in Somerville, Maine. Surrounded by almost 600 acres of wild meadows and untouched habitat, this is ideal natural forage country for […]
Horizontal hives, Layens vs. Langstroth frames, wintering clusters
Perfectly circular brood pattern – Layens frame I host USDA Russian honey bees (aka RHBA pure russians) in double-walled insulated horizontal Layens hives – either with peaked roofs or with telescopic roofs. The video shows how 16” deep Layens frames allow honey bees to lay perfectly round brood pattern while conventional shallower Langstroth frames would […]
Water, Minerals and the taste of Honey – Duplicate – [#6188] – Duplicate – [#6258]
Water, Minerals & the Taste of Honey You probably already knew that the honey bees collect not just nectar but water as well. But did you know that the quality of the bees’ primary water source directly affects the quality and taste of their honey? The honeybees that collect clean water and unpolluted natural nectar […]
If Beekeeping=Agriculture, shoud you treat Bees like Cattle??
If Beekeeping=Agriculture, should Bees be treated like Cattle?? Rev. Langstroth, who in 1850s invented conventional vertical multi-box beehive, was a congregational minister who advocated for a “dominion of man over bees”. Langstroth shared the prevailing philosophy of the 1800s, that Man’s mission was to control, dominate and subjugate nature rather than live in harmony with […]
USDA Russians vs. Italian Bees, Horizontal Hives and Funny Honey
Russian Bees vs. Italian Bees Comparison of USDA certified Russian bees and bees with Italian genetics in terms of winter survival in US North East without supplemental sugar feedings. “To feed or not to feed”, that is the question. Summer space management of horizontal Layens hive and what makes funny honey.
Working with Horizontal Layens Hives
Working with Horizontal Layens Hives Feral Hive in a Natural Tree Hollow Layens horizontal hives were designed to imitate how the feral bee colonies live in natural tree hollows. Layens horizontal hives with deep 16″ frames have been in continuous use since the 19th century, as they are easy to manage with minimal disturbances to […]
Vertical and Horizontal Beehives & Math of Overwintering. Honey Bee Clusters, Shapes & Frame Design
Vertical & Horizontal Beehives and Math for Overwintering. Cluster Shapes & Frame Designs The above video discusses the following: The shape of a bee cluster varies depending on the depth of the frame. In conventional Langstroth vertical hives, due to a relatively shallow (just 9″ deep individual frame) the bee cluster tends to take a […]