Layens Beehive Inspections and Fall Honey Harvest

As we move toward winter, I inspect the horizontal Layens hives to gauge the honey bees' resources and to harvest surplus honey. Come along to take a look into each of the hives and the process of honey extraction.
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I grew up on a farm on the edge of the Nebraska sandhills. A cattle ranch that bears our family name, founded in the late 1800s by my ancestors, is still owned and worked by my cousin. Life events have put me in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area in middle America, where my wife and I have raised our two kids. It's in this environment that I work to make as sustainable a life as I can, converting much of our backyard to grow food, including a garden, fruit trees and bee hives.

I use natural methods, as much as is possible, in my gardening and beekeeping. I garden organically and continue to learn to work with the soil and the plants, without the use of chemical supplements, herbicides or pesticides, to improve our harvest. Our honey bees are sourced from local colonies through swarms, trap-outs and cut-outs, and are kept, using treatment-free, natural methods, in Layens horizontal hives.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Mom's Hive (Mother Colony F1)
05:04 - Green Hive (Mother Colony F2)
10:24 - Taj Mahive Hive 3 (Mother Colony F2)
13:16 - Taj Mahive Hive 1 (Mother Colony F2)
16:46 - 12 Frame Hive (Caught Swarm)
19:23 - Under the Sea (Mother Colony F1)
22:54 - Honey Harvest