The Flow Hive invention that changed home beekeeping and a family's life

The Flow Hive invention that changed home beekeeping and a family's life | Australian Story (2015)

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Byron Bay inventors, Cedar Anderson and his dad Stuart Anderson, created the Flow Hive to provide a safe and stress-free way to extract honey from the beehive.
Flow Hive is a plastic frame that sits inside a conventional beehive. With a pull of the lever honey simply drains into a jar.
But it was what happened next that took the world by storm. Cedar decided to put the invention up on a crowdfunding site hoping to raise $70,000. The video of the Flow Hive went viral and by the end of the campaign, they had US$12.2 million worth of advance orders and a monumental task ahead of them.
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@hevchip741 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful life and story that could teach loads of people about the simple things in life that are taken for granted. Real soul lifting.

@AnitaSouthall 3 жыл бұрын

Quite amazing to see one man's vision come to life.🐝🐝🐝

@kettle2293 3 жыл бұрын

How would a regular hive being neglected be different to these ones? Don't quite understand that line of thought.

@mark-ish 3 жыл бұрын

Any neglected hive is bad. There isnt any difference between a traditional or modern hive in that respect. The difference between a traditional hive and the Flow hive is the change in attitude of taking the honey with minimal or no effort in caring for the bees. Flow hives as advised in the video are setup not to be intrusive and blissfully ignore any concern for the detection and elimination of parasites and diseases for a healthy hive. This requires regular checking. That's where the flow hive by design fosters a neglected attitude to keeping bees. Ignorance & naivety is clearly bliss for Cedar & people who want the reward without any responsibility.

@honeymcdonald9120 6 ай бұрын

@@mark-ish Again you are showing your ignorance. have you seen he videos Flow hive put out?. They constantly educate about caring for the bees in the normal way and emphasise getting local knowledge from experienced beekeepers. They talk about parasites, feeding, moving and caring for the brood box. This is one part of the process that is helping that is all. Get a grip.

@Sarah-hz3gy Жыл бұрын

WOW! What an amazing family. Notice Cedar mentioned HOW having freedom assisted his creativity? It also made him humble and resourceful. A far cry from our current environments. Cedar you and your family and group of friends are wonderful human beings. You invented something practical and useful that is respectful to our environment and harmonious to nature (Gods' Creation). You have remained humble and money has not changed you. God Bless you and your Family, such a great invention and a beautiful message. When I am able to afford one, I would definitely like to give it a go. Thank you for your efforts 👍👍

@myriamgonzalez6138 3 жыл бұрын

Tomar un poco de esa miel te rejuvenece al intante Que logo tiene tu procduto. Expetacular Oro empolvo.....

@stevemccann3976 3 жыл бұрын

Good on yah! A heckler once asked Abraham Lincoln "how long a man's legs should be?" Abe replied " long enough to reach the ground". Maybe you are the same height as Abe.

@myriamgonzalez6138 3 жыл бұрын

Tremendo Mente de previlegio Gracias Felicidades Familia .

@myriamgonzalez6138 3 жыл бұрын

Expetacular Gracias Por Compartir Gracias 🎆💝

@XxBloggs 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty pathetic that the traditional beekeepers are jealous of the success of FlowHive.

@24emerald 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing invention... !

@stewartdevisser3818 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who is sitting on a toilet my question is, how do you improve a toilet roll holder or make toilet paper easier to use?

@DeanLlewellyn 3 жыл бұрын

Bypass it by installing a Bidet.

@zico3239 3 жыл бұрын

There is only one solution for that use a bide

@z3nophobic 3 ай бұрын

Does anyone know the song the lady is playing at 24:58 ?

@justg3495 10 ай бұрын

For hippies they certainly do charge a whole lot for their product.

@susandurrant6357 3 жыл бұрын

I hope the massive success will not jeopardise this lovely lifestyle

@joebullwinkle5099 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful story, I hope these guys are still doing well from this wonderful invention.

@mark-ish 3 жыл бұрын

"Wonderful invention" Ignorance is bliss.

@BuzzLightyear9999 2 жыл бұрын

@@mark-ish It is an exceptional invention. Being able to keep bees and have the honey-harvesting super part of it be non-destructive to the bees is an invention of true vision from a beekeeper (and it is important to know Stuart and Cedar Anderson are lifelong beekeepers across multiple generations…). The ‘anti-Flow’ crowd are more than welcome to keep harvesting honey the way they always have, but don’t begrudge people who have discovered a less painful way… they also should not destructively misinform people that beekeepers who use Flow supers are any lesser beekeepers than any other. (There is an added unintended benefit to harvesting via Flow which is to reduce oxidisation and enhance the richness of the flavour of the honey - completely enforeseen and unintended, but they produce superior tasting honey in a less destructive way to the bees… how on earth could that be a bad thing…?) People who are bad beekeepers are bad beekeepers. That is not the fault of the honey-super; it’s the fault of the beekeeper. Would you say someone is a better/worse beekeeper because they use a J-hook hive tool rather than a flat-bar hive tool? Of course not… that’s be absurd. Using a Flow super is definitely more expensive, but it is simply a tool for a beekeeper… and a clever one at that…🤷‍♂️

@honeymcdonald9120 6 ай бұрын

@@mark-ish Someone's a little jealous?

@bladeqmaster 3 жыл бұрын

Send it to my phone, Send it to my phone

@susandurrant6357 3 жыл бұрын

What about the wax? I think this maybe a problem

@XxBloggs 2 жыл бұрын

When you harvest from a flow hive, the bees remove the wax cappings and start filling the cells again.

@rmartin6914 3 жыл бұрын

I bout the flow hive early in my beekeeping career and now after 8+ years of experience, I can tell you that the flow hive is a gimmick. The end product is not ready and kills a lot of the bees during the winter time.

@moniqueryan2316 3 жыл бұрын

The Flow Hive has only been on the market for 5 years. You can't have bought a Flow Hive if you have 8+ years using the hive

@rmartin6914 3 жыл бұрын

@@moniqueryan2316 I never said I have been using the flow hive for 8+ years. I said I have 8+ years of bee keeping experience in total. I bought it in 2015, so about five years ago.

@XxBloggs 2 жыл бұрын

You never owned a flow hive. They haven’t been for sale for that long. They definitely do NOT kill bees. You just haven’t bothered learning how they work. Sad you have to resort to lies to push your agenda.

@honeymcdonald9120 6 ай бұрын

Then look after your bees in your winter better. Perhaps the bees need to be contained in the brood box or insulated This would happen no matter what system you had. You're just PO'd that you have invested in the extractor machinery - where you squash and kill bees, mix all the flavours and spend so long faffing about. No-one said the flowhive was the answer to anything but extracting. .

@mr.creepingdeath4136 3 жыл бұрын

@iwantosavemoney 3 жыл бұрын

Do a little research and find out what actual bee keepers have to say about this hive. to keep it short really a bad way to go not going to put forth the effort to help the bees and keep them healthy and check on them properly and not lazily. This is one of the worst things that have happened to 🐝 wail they need help and this is not helping.

@XxBloggs 2 жыл бұрын

This is rubbish. You’re assuming that people with flow hives don’t look after bees. The fact is that a small minority of traditional beekeepers haven’t done their research and don’t know how FlowHives work. These are an amazing innovation that harvests honey without stress to the bees, without lots of extra equipment and with no mess.

@honeymcdonald9120 6 ай бұрын

Agree -- these people annoy me. @@XxBloggs

@honeymcdonald9120 6 ай бұрын

Do a little research and you'll find plenty of beekeepers who do like it, aren't jealous and aren't pissed off that many more people are taking up beekeeping (who haven't bought extraction equipment and a shed)!!