I'm from Israel and I just love it when you say "it's a beautiful spring day with 40 degrees Fahrenheit.." That's the coldest temperature we had this winter where I live XD

I love your channel. When I was a lad of perhaps 10 years old, my grandpa and a couple of uncles were bee keepers who pastured their bees at farmers fields for a fee. I wanted to be a bee keeper so I slowly became the owner of 7 bee hives. The first I got from an uncle and the remainder I got from catching swarms. On one occasion a swarms landed on the corner of a neighbor's shed for rabbit hutches. I was only 13 years old and tried to get the swarm into a hive box by sliding a board under the hanging swarm to move it over the hive box; but the swarm moved from the corner of the shed to the board to my arm. I moved my arm over the hive box; shook it and the swarmed went inside. Not one sting.

Great to see that they have bee-hived themselves over winter.

I'm still laughing when Arielle said "ambiance" with a perfect accent in the middle of a storm of smoke and bees! guys, you are the best! Cheers from Argentina. Fede

You guys are always so brave. One bee sends me running and there you are with a bee on your face as if it's nothing.

I have no idea how you can bring yourself to do that and without a suit. You are so so brave. Congratulations on the two making it through winter! I know how hard you worked for this success and you deserve it!

It is always wonderful to see how strong and fearless Arielle is in these videos. I am brave, but not so much with bees hanging out on my face! Thanks for sharing!

Unbeelievable!

I will never again complain about the price of a quart of honey. I can't believe you did that without a beekeepers suit on. An actual "thumb nail", that was funny. Shout out to Mr. Bandit💓

It's like you live every day with them the farther I go with all this the more involved I get this has really been one of the most Fantastic Finds I found on KZfaq

I'm Amazed your chickens eat dead bees omg your chickens eat everything. I'm so happy your bees survived Winter T.L.C is what did it. You two are just so Inspirational. Two Beautiful Alaskan Soul's adore you both. Kindest thoughts from Victoria Australia xoxo

Just a quick " check in " with the most loving real couple .... giving us real loving Alaskan life lessons .... Soooo happy on your bees 👍👍 . Stay safe , as I'm off into the B.C.& Alberta bush again . ❤

Just magnificent creatures. Lovely to see.

Happy to hear that your hives made it through the winter. Have seen many hives that didn't make it. Thank you for taking us along. 🍀

Arielle is the bee whisperer 💛

Hello ! Loving all the great humor here in the comments ! This "armchair Alaskan" learns alot every single video !

Bee keeping is so important. Glad you are paying attention to this enterprise. Three hives! Good luck this summer so that the hives will be strong and nourished for the winter. 🤞🏼

I love the way you're working with the bee's now, you even got Eric in there, and no suits

Great job. Can’t wait to see you all harvesting honey.

Guys, its unbelievable! Beekeeping during the snow. I keep bees in Scotland and never open hives until it is no less than +10C. Good luck with your bees this season and wish you to have good honey crop. It was really nice to see how gentle you are with handling the bees and brave not to wear the overalls. I never dare it. The only thing I would advise- It is better to use the ready factory made syrup. Here I buy so called " Invertbee ". Sugar with water takes a lot of energy for bees to digest and convert it for storage. It is definitely cheaper but for the bees health and in the cold climates not as good. All the best!

You two are AMAZING! Like your personalities too.

I love honey bees, I kept bees when I was a kid I had up to 15 hives at once, had them in the Florida keys and they produced year round, never had a drought of honey. Thanks guys this was a great video.

I am from the Philippines and I so love your contents. It seems that I am also joining you in all your journeys! Thank you for tagging us along through your vlogs!❤

Feeding bees to the chickens... so resourceful!

You're a bee charmer, Arielle. Truly.

Congratulations on the survival of your 2 colonies. At 19:47 on the video you can see an additional queen in with the bees you were installing. Also, if you put your pollen patty face down (paper up) it will keep it moist for longer. It also discourages small hive beetles. Love your videos, thanks. PS- I never heard of cowboy candy before watching your videos. After the 30 day food challenge, hearing "and cowboy candy" so many times I decided I needed to find a recipe and make it. IT IS AWESOME!!!!

Soooo happy for you guys! Congratulations on successful overwinter in a tough location.

So happy for your bees making it this time! I love how you title your short films with a hint of what we we see, so I can rewatch later, search it out. I have watched some videos of yours three times, especially, canning ones. I see people titling stuff things like, "Its all over," or "We are in trouble," when they are not. I am staying away from clickbait titles like that, but you don't use clickbait, just your story. I am learning something new every episode it seems. So thanks Aerial and Aaron for doing this!

Just makes me feel good all over to see you giving such good care to the wee bee-sties. Thanks for all you do with all the creatures under your care---oh, and the veggies, too. lol

I’m not sure if anyone already said this but all you need to do is pull that red cap off the queen cage. There’s already queen candy in the opening. You don’t need a marshmallow. Congratulations on successfully overwintering both your colonies.

So happy they over wintered successfully!

Thank you!

So nice to see you again in your life. 🌹👍

Great to see that the bees survived the winter! 🎉

one of your most waited video i think... Thanks you ! #FreeBee #SaveTheBee

So interesting! Love that your bees made it through the winter! Fun to see what you do for their survival! Welcome new bees! You will love it there!

Very educational video on bee care!

I've watched this video twice!! Just had to absorb it all and how wonderful you guys are and the work you do. Will always be my inspiration to be self sufficient. Thanks!

I beekeeping this year for the first time and grateful for the washington weather!

Keeping bees is a life long series of lessons. Congratulations on your hive survival this year!

My dream is to live like this one day. I currently live in a city and I’m working towards a career of a dental hygienist. I’m going to work until I can afford property where I can create my own homestead one day. I know it’s a long road ahead but for now I live my dream through watching your channel and others like it, along with taking care of my balcony garden. 🙂

Super job with the honey bees. Good luck keeping them.

Thanks for sharing your journey with everyone, I wish you all great success

Congratulations on wintering your bees 🐝

Love the variety of your programs. This one on the bees was quite interesting. And thanks for the 1 or 2 second close up of Pepper!

Wow! No mask no gloves! Bees are really quiet but you are really brave 🤩👌

Woo Hoo!! They survived! Nice job installing the new hive, too :)

I'm NOT a bee expert, but I have heard that very often there will be a new queen in the hive. I loved the video, honey farming is a big learning curve.

Awesome that the bees survived!

The music you added at the start of the video with the bees was very powerful. Bees are the essence of life, and the music reflected that. Very well done...

that's the bee's knees

When I was watching this KZfaq ads were "Save the Bees" kits from Friends of the Earth!

I think your pallets have settled. Your hives don't look level, on camera at least. I would definitely check that and shim them up level asap before the ones you have get out flying this spring and building new comb all cattywampus or your new hive gets off on a "crooked foot!" : - D They WILL build perpendicular to level regardless of whether the hives/frames are level, and that can make a real mess when you end up with crooked comb or even cross combing. We always harvest our honey in the spring after the nectar flow really gets going rather than in the fall. We find that the bees do so much better eating their own honey throughout the winter until the nectar starts flowing than when living on just sugar. If they still have honey stores left once the nectar flow is really rolling and there's plenty to be had, we harvest that surplus for ourselves. Michigan isn't as cold as Alaska, but we had SO many more hives survive the winter on their own honey than on sugar when we lived there. Oregon is milder, but we've continued the same practices. We even feed them back their own honey if we still have any on hand if they run low in later winter/early spring rather than giving them sugar water. They just always do so much better on their own honey. Bee's honey is so much more than just sugar. It's a complete food and herbal medicinary for them, containing pollen/protein, propolis (powerfully medicinal), enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients from all the plants they've gathered and made it from. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and other healing properties that are instrumental in the health of the hive. Sugar/sugar water only has pure glucose and fructose and nothing else. It's as hard on bees' health and immune system as it is on humans', and even though feeding them that through the winter is common practice in the industry, it's a total mistake in our experience. (Ask me how we know...) It's the difference between eating great, nutritious, home grown, home cooked food like you do and trying to survive on junk food. It's ok in a pinch to get by, but not for very long or very often if you want your bees to be really healthy and resilient, especially in a place as harsh as Alaska.

Lovely video Wonderful bees congratulations xxx Look forward to seeing them throughout the year xx

You guys are so inspiring with all that you do in such harsh conditions. Love your canning videos too. Cheers from Australia xx Cathi xx

Ariel and Eric removed the insulations padding around the bees boxes. The bees were all buzzzzzzzinng zzzz🥶🥶🥶⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⛄⛄☃️🌨️🌨️ with sudden exposure of the cold temperature. Then Ariel and Eric went to to collect the queen bee. The flight of the queen bee was called the flight of bumblebee .......🤭🤭🤭 When Eric removed the can, looks like movie, removing the bomb very gentle. Hehe Best if you build the she'd like the fire wood shed, with the slated walls. Helps better environment for the hives. More constant temperature .... Still the bees can leave in summer n fly back in. But it just cover from the extremities... Heheh

Me alegro mucho por vosotros y vosotros por la abejas, por aquí por España también hemos tenido un invierno algo más frío de lo normal, aunque ni de lejos lo que tenéis por hay. Saludos y a disfrutar de la estación que ya tenemos encima....

The 2 frames of drawn comb that you pulled out when you installed your new package bees was mostly Drone cells which will cause the queen to raise Drones instead of workers. You need to make sure you replace them with worker comb or foundation for the hive to survive well..keep up the hard work. I really enjoy watching your channel. I've he bees for about 45 years. Much of it in the mountains of Colorado. Thanks Carl.

I didnt mean for my comment to sound rude about the beginning of the videos! I love it and totally can see how its an expression of art! You are my favorite channel! Keep up the amazing videos !

I’m so impressed with your confidence in handling those bees. Another great video.

So awesome! I am Installing our packages today!

My grandpa was a bee keeper. He lived in northern Idaho which got a tremendous amount of snow. He had a honey comb bin that was a centrifuge extractor and as a little girl I wound that thing for hours. A spout, jars and happy customers. Good on you that your bees did okay and will pollinate another year.

BLESSINGS 💖

Great video I'm not sure how your bees survive up there, wow they must be hardy. I mix up 50/50 sugar syrup in a spray bottle and spray new packages before I install them. Less flying and they have full bellies when they start drawing out comb. It all is a good way to capture a swarm, just spray them down real heavy and make a big funnel that will fit the package that the bees came in and just shake them in and seal it up. I can hardly wait for the garden, I'm very envious of the growing season you have up there. Thanks for great entertainment

So glad your bees have made it. I heard some people didn't fare so good.

Great job on the Bees Controling moisture, insulating and providing nourishment. Happy Ladies indeed!!! Our New Hampsahire Bees just starting to leave the colonies, inspite of 8" of spring snow today. Maple Tree buds will provide nourishment. Keep going guys your doing great.

I recommend putting small pieces of shungite for the bess to nibble on - it'll keep them alive much longer

Amazing job. Many beez alive. I can tell your the master and l know who is afraid of the beeeZs, your hubby! Ha ha

Yay!!! Happy to see they kept!

You can dust your hands with baby powder if you go in barehanded. It helps to keep them calm. They like the smell.

What fun! Lived in Eagle River in the early 90's, but I only recognized the mountains in the video . . . I guess they don't change much . . .

The bees are happy.

you should get yourselves a soft "bee-brush", always useful to brush away bees from the places where they can get crushed.

The confidence on Arielle handling the bees without a bee suit is outstanding. I can't do that.

I’m grateful you kept the bees alive.

That was so enjoyable to watch, thank you for sharing!

A bee brush would be helpful to move the bees out of the way when placing the top cover on.I brush the bees off one edge of the hive and gradually let the top cover down on the other 3 edges in a zig zag movement to keep from crushing them.You could make a bee brush using chicken wing or tail feathers or the baby moose hair looked suitable if you still have any. I set my sugar syrup feeder jars away from the top cover holes to keep from freezing and killing the bees if the syrup drips down onto the frames and bees in cold weather.I set the syrup jar lid on top of 3/8" strips of wood so the bees can get to the syrup holes. My Australorps won't eat dead bees,maybe my chickens are just picky eaters! ;)

Hi guys I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing! May God bless you and your families!😁❤️

I'm huge fan from Israel and the highs for this week are going to be in the 100's. So jealous of your snow even though I believe you probably get sick of it

chickens crack me up, with the noises they make.

Got to hand it to you two...I’d be freaking right out soon as I got near the hive!!! Much less allowing them to touch me!!

Great to find your channel from Lumnah Acres in New Hampshire. I'll be back. Looking forward to watching your Spring come alive.

BEAUTIFUL

You just insulate the same this next winter, you will be just fine I’m sure. Stay faithful and positive, it all works the way it should. ✌🏻

You guys really know your stuff and have carved out an amazing life in the wilderness...

Just watching this as a bee allergy mom I had my epipen ready!

I'm amazed that your bees survived such a harsh winter -- and I'm surprised that some bear didn't make a meal of them.

Hahahah i love this. I did almost the same thing today. James sprinkled some ashes around our bee yard. Andi removed the screens off my inside covers. All of my hives wintered over too. I am so happy for you that they wintered over. Great job. Yup every spring when you clean out that bottom board the site of all them dead bees is very alarming. But you figure some of those are the remains of the summer bees that died off during the winter. I love the way your package came. ours come in cardboard tubes. So are they pure Russians, i would love to get them but harder to get in BC. Anyways i could go on and on but wont bored you. Great job you guys.

13:46 Sweet sweet Arielle ❤❤

A lot of channels I watch are looking like it's almost summer. We're getting 20cm of snow tomorrow and it's comforting to see I'm not the only one still in snow! (We have much less overall though lol) so happy about your bees!

Ariel, try using your hive tool and score the wax paper gives the bees more of a opportunity to eat the pollen patty all sides.

The chickens also eat dead bees? Damn, is there anything chickens won't eat?

I'm from Cambodia, a very hot country in south east asia. I love to see beautiful Alaska!

One fact that I had not considered about living this lifestyle: your whole life is now getting things to eat. Thats it. Hunting, using the bees for honey, gardening for herbs, fruits and veggies, packing food, cooking, fishing. Nearly everything you do now revolves around getting and provisiong food.

I love the light weight foam.

Russian honeybees are often very reactive to environmental cues; however, your new collection seem to accept you as part of the hive instantly. They were so well behave I thought the shipment might have suffered significant mortality. I loved their little shipping container and seeing their little legs sticking out the “windows.”

So that was what all the buzz was about ..... beez! They'll bee bizzy pollinating your garden for sure. Take care Eric & Arielle.

Interesting to watch you two. I used to work as a bee transporter. Taking hives from orchards to orchards. There was a lot of waiting to do so sometimes I'd just sit there and watch the bees and it was fascinating to see how they work together and all seem to have a job in the hive. Also I never got stung once that I remember.

Wow, Bee Hive.

You maybe the bravest woman I know and the most patient and the most tolerant.