Hey Jon there is never a boring moment in your world. Very cool to be a part of something different all the time... great flavor

This bees videos are getting more interesting every time, keep up like this John, thanks for sharing!

Awesome hive Jon. Love the mix you've got going with the woodworking, painting and beehive videos. Thank you very much for all the hours of entertainment you have provided.

It looks very delicious, thanks for sharing Peter!

John I have to echo other people and say that I'm loving the bee videos, and seeing that honey oozing out made my mouth water. Definitely my favorite sweetener for everything. To be able to harvest it fresh like that (while work on yours and the bees' part) is just awesome.

I find the bees and the whole hive process fascinating. Thanks for sharing this.

Great I was waiting for this video since beginning! Thanks Peter!

Great vid! Really enjoying the bee vids and that honey yum!! Looking forward to the processing of the honey and another hive build video! Thanks so much for your hard work and posting the vids!! W

Nice work caring for your bees!

I bet you could build a queen excluder bar on each end of the hive to make sure you get your honey, then just keep inserting new bars before that if you want more brood. Love your channel I found it for woodworking but used to keep bees up in MA, this was a great video, thanks for sharing.

Makes me want to start my hives up again!

Very exciting. Way to go on the successful harvest.

yes please show some plans. i plan to do some beekeeping in the spring as well. they seem to go hand in hand in gardening. Thanks Jon and have a Happy New Year's

In my Colorado TBH design I made the follower board out of plexi glass so I can view the bees from the end and see if they need any more bars put in. My entrance is at one of the ends rather than in the middle so the bees are building their colony out from the entrance.

i do like ur job; i already start my first top bar hives(x3) and waiting for some swarms to be connected with them. tnx for sharing ur way of making kenyan hives and for environnment and polination

! What a diffent the prosess of harvest here from Mexico I enjoy a lot this video thank you for do it

🐝🐝🐝 G'day Jon, nothing like the taste of your own honey, don't forget to weigh your harvest and keep a record in a little note book it helps to be able to compare seasons and when you get another hive and you will 😀 to compare the strength of the hive, meantime enjoy your well earned honey, Tim. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

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Wonderful video! First year beekeeper... I have Langstroth hives, but I'm thinking about trying out a top bar hive or two. Thank you for the brief, yet thorough, explanation. :)

Love your workshop 👍

you make me hungry ........ jon enjoy

Great feedback thanks!! :)

This is great. Thanks for sharing

Dang, I'm really surprised that it didn't swarm given the number of bees hanging out underneath. As for splitting in the spring, what you should do is look for drones. As soon as you see drones you can split your hive without a queen. Just take half of the hive with the queen and put them in the new box. If there are eggs left in the old hive they can make a new queen. It is important to move the queen to the new hive in a new location, or move the original hive with the queen in it to a new location. You will end up with a second hive with no cost other than the time and materials for the TBH.

Great video, makes my mouth water for fresh, raw honey.

Tip if you want to harvest honey that has a little brood on it you can cut the brood off and use a big hair clip and clip on the brood then use elastics or string to attached it to the bar till thay hatch.

I was wondering how the hive was doing; I believe the last time I had seen anything about the hive they had survived a near miss from a falling tree. Glad to see you are getting some honey... and maybe more importantly, getting some wax for your art. Now, when do we get to see some "home grown" art? I'm really looking forward to that video. Thanks again for the inspiration your provide.

Thanks, Jon, for your quick reply - That's what I thought but all the beekeepers around here (who do not have top-bar hive experience) are worried that this leaves an extra entrance for predators or even that the bees may start using the roof space to build comb - just also would like to say thank you for your ever interesting Art & Woodworking videos.

I recently got in to top bar bee hiving this past January, my bees have been very prolific & have filled about 1/2 of the hive, your video's are very educating...

Very interesting. Thanks

You are definitely a full fledged bee keeper now! Nice harvest, yum. Curious how will you handle the overpopulation in next video? Thanks for sharing.

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Hey Jon I have been rewatching your videos and sharing with fb groups, people looking to build their own TBH. Thank you again! My question is about the entrances. There entrances all the way to the left or right of where yours are and some place them on the end wall. What’s the best entrance location in your opinion?

Jon How and what do you treat Top Bars with to control varroa and hive beetles?

Hi Jon; I've enjoyed watchin your videos on the top bar hives.. I'm asking (in complete ignorance) is it , or is it not, possible to use full frames under the top bars? or as part of the top bars?.. What is the thinkin of not doin so? .. Thanks

Thank You Jon. It was nice to see a woodworker build a TB Hive. I was wondering how the bees were doing. I plan on building one soon and join the beekeeping world this next spring. Did you look for or see any Queen cells during your inspection ?

Yummi!

You need a hive tool. Also, consider buying a honey bucket with a strainer ( food grade)

Been watching all your videos since you started but have been really curious with your bee hive program and am enjoying that! First I am wondering where you live to get the idea of weather and I am curious what you do with bees in the winter? I live in moorhead mn across the red river from fargo nd and may take up this subject but need to get all the education I can for this as I raise apple trees and I have noticed sharp decline in bees. Thanks for your time. Andy

When you replaced the bars there were a lot of bees around the edges. How did you replace the bars without harming the bees? Do you smoke them or brush them?

Good video Jon, was almost disappointed when it ended - as really wanted to see the processing of honey. The cap almost looks grey? But inside it's a rich gold. Seems crazy to see the amount of bees you now have, when to start you had to buy them in. How are bee keepers expected to control the population? As you mentioned about a Swarm a few times which makes me nervous haha!

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Hi, I'd like to ask if you think there is specific way or condition that making bees build workers' room, not drone room. I have tried to make honey comb with bars, but it's been failing since they always build drone's rooms.

Hello. What are your thoughts about feeding bees sugar water? I'm not sure about feeding them this because I've heard that it messes with the bees gut and natural defense system. What are you thoughts? thanks.

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Jon, I was wondering if you are still planing on posting plans for the Bee Hive you built. I am having my father build a hive for me and I need Exact measurements for him because he likes to "rig" things.

I wonder if instead of having the window flush to the inside if you kept if flush to the out side then there will be a void so thay can't attach the comb to the window.

have you tried to use a honey comb roller to penetrate the caps so you can extract the honey with a spinner and put the bar back in with comb still in place?

Какую породу пчел вы используете в своих ульях?

How do you control the barroa mites

Looks tasty! Are you hoping to get any wax out of that bar, too?

A hive that size and all you get is one bar of honey?

I see that you are intending to make another hive with plans - I have built a hive based on yours and have one immediate question if you could help - I can't figure out how the lid fits - I see it rests on the cleats at the end and sits outside the top bars at the sides - I can't see if the sides are sealed in any way - are you leaving a big hole at the sides?

Sounds like they were a bit pissy about you taking the honey!

How do you keep your queen seprate in a top bar beehive from the workers so she don't lay eggs in the honey..?

But... How does it taste?

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I see a healthy bee. But I can not understand. Why does not a bee colonies build ordinary honeycombs, and not drone honeycombs? We only build swarms in the Vologda region. Ordinary bee colonies after wintering build only droned cells.

If they didn't attach to the window you guys wouldn't be happy.

I think I'll skip the top bar hives, it's not for me.

This bees videos are getting more interesting every time, keep up like this John, thanks for sharing!