Bee Barn Beekeeping Is Different

My beehives are awesome. Maybe a bit too good. I've never seen colonies this size build up this fast. 4 of my 6 hives swarmed with adequate brood space inside and plenty of super space above. Good news is they have successfully re-queened themselves. I think I figured out why this happened and I'll be addressing it in the next version of the Bee Barns. Overall, everything is going great.
00:00 - Welcome! These Beehives are almost too good.
02:03 - Oak Hive Queen Check
03:04 - Beech Hive Queen Check
03:38 - Pine Hive Queen Check
04:26 - Birch Hive Queen Check
05:44 - Maple Hive Queen Check
08:36 - The Bee Barn Learning Curve
10:26 - BEE BARN 2.0???
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[@vinofarm]

Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while. I have been very busy with life, barn finishing and working on a Bee Barn 2.0 video series. The way the world has been lately, getting materials and finding parts for the hives has been tedious. I’m nearly finished with the hives and should have all the bees transferred into their new homes by October 8 or 9th. Then I’ll be editing the video series. (I’ve been shooting as I build.) The plan is to have a reveal/intro video for BeeBarn 2.0 before the end of October. Then I will edit and post a weekly 4-5 part build series on how I made them. As the season slows down, I will have more time to edit so there should be more regular KZbin content right through the end of the year. All is good! The bees are great! These hives are awesome… and I’m making them even better. Stay tuned! Updates have been ongoing here: instagram.com/vinofarm

[@JennSword]

Oh good, I was starting to worry about you. 🙂

[@JennSword]

Also, you have inspired me to insulate my entire apiary this year. Looking forward to see how that works this winter.

[@ladybeekeeper7777]

Thanks for the update 🙏🐝🐝

[@ianhegan-rumohr791]

Yaaay! :D Missed you, can't wait to see your new vids. Glad you are back and in full swing.

[@2unruly]

Sounds grrrreat!! Lol I've been looking forward to the build series. I am going to incorporate them in to my apriary. I only have seven hives so it shouldn't be to hard.... see you soon!

[@kylemyers8415]

We had similar issues with our standard langstroths this year. A really warm spring for the bees moving quickly and had a swarm, caught it and turned it into a new hive, then had that hive swarm and split to another hive. Great honey flow and not enough supers meant the bees outgrew their space!

[@1o1psycho]

Liked that you cut back on the number of your hives to better match the resources in your environment. But keep in mind if your hives swarm a lot there will be an increase of total colonies in your area! Excited to keep watching your process!

[@drrota]

Likely competing with all those feral colonies that have swarmed away in years past. Gosh, what's a beekeeper to do? Creating your own competition...

[@Tehrasha]

Designed the BeeBarn to help reduce back strain when shuffling supers... now has supers stacked to head height. :)

[@vinofarm]

I can lift supers easy. It’s the BENDING to lift deep brood boxes over and over that was killing me.

[@danielhiller9165]

your bee excluders cramped the brood area and naturally they will swarm you needed to give them at least 2 more supers to lay in.

[@jdvanallen2907]

I was about to start building my version of the bee barn but I’ll wait to see your changes and then adapt from there. I’ll share my build and data with you as it comes in.

[@thehiveandthehoneybee9547]

its just a layens hive really nothing new

[@Dnelson807]

I just built and moved my colonies into new bee barns. They are still in normal deep frames, so I will have to make that transition in the spring. But I'm quite sure this is going to make a huge difference in winter survival. Last winter was rough with the extreme up and down swings in temperature, and every time we came out of a cold snap I was minus 2 or 3 colonies. This insulation should greatly lessen the effects of the ups and downs. Looking forward to a worry free winter season. Thank you so much for sharing your innovations.

[@jackk4332]

This spring/summer is proving to be awesome for honey production in Central MA. Glad yours are getting in on the action.

[@scottcampbell96]

Haven’t seen an update in a while. Hope you are doing well and had a productive summer.

[@apveening]

You aren't the only one.

[@stevenhoelscher6075]

Good reading all is good with the Bee's been wandering. I always buy pure unfiltered local honey. LOVE it.

[@JustBees]

Same.. eager for updates.. regardless if it's positive or negative. I'm a big Vino fan. He's not afraid to try new things.

[@deanclarke392]

Missing the updates Jim. How's the hives and honey production going?

[@trishapellis]

He posted an update pinned here in the comments section, fyi

[@marilyndagenais]

Hi Jim, I have fallen in love with your Bee Barn design. I am in the process of building at least 3 barns over this fall/winter (I am in Ottawa,Ontario Canada). I am looking forward to your update since June 24(?), 2022. I have to admit that I am riding your coat tails and hoping to have the same success as you have. Can't wait for your update.

[@ladybeekeeper7777]

I know you are probably very busy but I have been waiting with some anticipation to see bee barn 2.0. Almost. Ant wait. I love your work and it’s inspiring me to build similar hives

[@vinofarm]

See pinned comment!

[@annkrupa2349]

Removed my top entrances this year and have liked that so much better. One day maybe I will get the hubby to take on a build project and make me a bee barn. Would be fun to play with that. Looking forward to seeing your improvements. Must have gotten a ton of honey from them all this year. Nice to see you even though I am behind in watching them.

[@Joseph-Colin-EXP]

Love the design, I use layens. But the uninterrupted space is awesome for the bees. I LOVE WATCHING tjme draw wax. It's magic. I take it you're busy too on the farm.

[@rayopeongo]

I’m really hoping for a 10 part mini-series, with each episode at least 30 minutes long, on the design, construction, deployment and winterizing of Bee Barn 2.0.

[@MistressOnyaCox]

Very exciting can't wait to see 🙈

[@paulahello7435]

So glad to hear your news about coming back!!

[@joanhuffman2166]

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon 🥄. A swarm in July isn't worth a fly. Old English rhyme about bee swarms.

[@jamescraig8601]

Ive built 2 barns. Getting ready to put a colomy in them this week. Looking forward to the updates

[@Hunter-ys5yq]

Amazing hives 💪👌

[@cathyb2204]

Is the side of the super long frame just like a regular side with a growth spurt (narrowed in the center)? Loving the videos.

[@yvonnewagner5322]

“I missed you yesterday you’re stripey “. Queen: ”yeah I’ve been trying to get out and back but somebody keeps interrupting and getting in the way “ lol Very interesting videos thx

[@user-sn7wt1mw3g]

Vino, you are a very enthusiastic and hardworking person. Here in Russia, saying that there are three hangers that you can look at tirelessly, it's like a fire burns, how water flows and how others work. I watch your videos and enjoy your work. Good luck to you and we have a good video. (I don't know English, the translation was made by artificial intelligence, so sorry for the translation as it is)

[@chrrmin1979]

Hope the bees are still doing good!

[@JohnCullinan-lt9jb]

I put bottom box on top to put the three pound box of bees in then I set the feeder on the frames below, and set the queen on top of the frames and put the lid on, come back in a day and you will find all well,, you will not have to shake up the bees at all

[@blackroastermanor3071]

U are populating your area with bees. Thats good stuff!

[@bfd1565]

I sure do miss your videos. Happy Holidays...

[@BuildswithBrian]

Love the videos, can’t wait for the V2.0 Any ideas when it will be ready ?

[@vinofarm]

I’m building now and will be transitioning all the hives this fall. Videos will follow. Life is busy.

[@BuildswithBrian]

@@vinofarm thank you, not trying to rush you or anything 😆 , I know the feeling of being too busy, Can’t find time to make videos for my KZbin channel as well, been a crazy summer

[@joecnc3341]

@@vinofarm Looking forward to how you break the thermal bridge. Love your videos. Not trying to rush you. You do a truly great job with the videos.

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

I learned to put a couple holes in my follower boards in my lazutin hives. And to keep it full of frames. Building my fourth hive. I got 2 colonies in one hive right now. And may have a swarm in the trap. I left the swarm trap insulated. Colony survived in it last winter. It gets cool there at night even in summer. I only get up north 3 times a year to check hives. I did a walk away split with queen cells on 4th july. Hoping to put colony in new hive labor day.

[@necrozmaggron5840]

NEED MOAR! NOW!

[@DougMcHone]

I would love to see a video showing how your Varroa mite treatment is done in a Bee Barn. Most instructions assume a double deep box. What is your strategy?

[@craigcoghlan546]

Love your work mate 👍 can't for 2.0

[@mdwayman]

Love that new design buddy!!

[@waltermullins1417]

Have you made DIY plans for the bee barns you've got? I'd love to see how well they perform in my area!

[@darrenwebb988]

Gidday Jim from New Zealand. Mate I can't remember whether you add empty supers on top or under your other supers but we always undersuper our hives so that the girls always have space above them and it works really well. Not wanting to split and increase hive numbers? No worries!!! Do an internal Demaree Split. You maintain huge populations, maintain the honey production, no swarming and have very strong colonies going into winter. Not trying to tell you how to such eggs but that's how we do it and we don't get backfilling in the brood nest or swarming. Love the Bee Barn Journey and may be building one this season if I can find the time. Kindest regards Daz and Mandi

[@vinofarm]

There were completely empty, fully drawn supers on the hives. They still left. I can’t really do a Demaree with my boxes, but I was putting drawn (empty) frames in the brood boxes. It was a perfect storm of massive buildup and a gigantic black locust flow. They all went within a couple days of each other and I just missed them.

[@darrenwebb988]

@@vinofarm Those Bee Barns are certainly a great set up and yes the Demaree wouldn't work unless you had a box to accommodate those frames. However, very impressed with your Bee Barn. Keep up the great work

[@deanclarke392]

Hope everything is OK Jim. You've not posted for a while. Best wishes from the UK.

[@apveening]

He is reacting, so things seem to be looking good.

[@scrotiemcboogerballs1981]

Looks awesome hopefully it’ll all work out for you thank you to all bee keepers without you and bees we wouldn’t have food and most vegetation

[@johndoe-rj1ls]

Hi i watch your films occasionally, thank you. You opened a hive and showed a bit of mould in the top box under the burlap. I am a retired mechanical technician, and one thing i was taught with pneumatic and hydraulics is that in order to have FLOW, you need an in and out. So some ventilation (top opening)will aid in getting rid of the mould. Of course the outlet at top needs to be smaller than bottom opening. Heat convection will make the flow go from bottom to top. Just a point to ponder. Cheers

[@apveening]

If you had viewed the relevant videos, you would have learned the mould was caused by condensation at cold spots (with a small top ventilation opening).

[@nkapiariesjeffbeezos796]

Your insulated design is stellar but I think you need to revisit space needed to let colony feel it’s not cramped. I bet you could put seven boxes of supers WITH upper ventilation to decrease work needed to dry out that nectar. Sometimes we need to experiment with the amount of space needed and let the bees decide

[@andreysednev8542]

I think you can still use your current beebarn and eliminate swarm. Since it's not ideal add another brood box for expansion, and honey supers are not where newly emerged bees go, you can move couple fully capped frames to a separate hive. Couple frames from every hive you can make a full hive that can raise it's own Queen. This hive will be full production for the honey flow and backup for next year.

[@vinofarm]

I could easily make a lot of splits like that to prevent swarms, but I don’t want to make more hives. Swarms are something that will happen, but I will be more prepared next spring!

[@C123Martins]

Successful hives swarm.

[@jimbonevideo6941]

Temperature hot hives can make bees more swarmy. Bob Bennie vents his boxes by placing a shim on the back of a super to let heat out. Obviously not something to do in dearth bc robbing. But it might make them less swarm prone. Big hives make a big crop. Keep them in the box!

[@vinofarm]

I have sensors in my hives. The temps did not spike. The swarms happened on chilly stretches. We've mainly been in the 60s and 70s for the past two months. It was a crazy black locust flow I had never seen before. The highways and roadsides were COVERED in white locust flowers for about a week. I thought I had given them plenty of super space, but they hauled it in so fast the brood frames got filled and they left without even using the supers. It all happened in a couple days.

[@pastormickallen]

The bee barns look wonderful. Do have any plans that we can purchase to make our own?

[@JamesCrouchX]

At least two swarms got away. They are sneaky.

[@CastleHives]

This season looks like it will produce a bumper crop for you. Curious how many pounds you’ll get. NE Ohio it’s been crazy.

[@BillHerzig]

Jim, I am just getting started with beekeeping, by starting I mean watching videos, reading books, and signing up for a class. I found your videos while doing a search and I am really interested in the "Bee Barn"; as a woodworker, as well as someone who cannot resist the urge to modify products to perform better, I think that I will probably try to replicate these barns. I just have a quick, probably stupid, question: you keep referring to your hives as 'maple', 'cherry', 'cedar', etc., so what does that mean? Is it the wood the boxes are constructed from, or is it just your naming convention for data keeping? Thanks

[@vinofarm]

Hi Bill, it’s just my naming convention. Explained here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYemfpejhquhl6s

[@BillHerzig]

@@vinofarm Thanks for getting back to me, of course the answer was in one of the few videos I have not watched yet. That video will be the next one that I watch.

[@noahriding5780]

Hey there, Your videos are a lot of fun. You make the bee yard look very nice and appealing. Keep up the good work. Thank you also for your support and when you comment to questions ppl have. Also liked how lively that queen looked when you showed her and she was moving pretty fast; the first one you showed. I'm also curious if you are still experimenting with different shrubs, and plants around the bee yard? A couple years ago one of your videos was about the shrubs around the colony box area.

[@carolleenkelmann4751]

From where must you get your supplies. Sounds like Scandanavia?

[@twistin140]

Thanks for the update....... GO BALBOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johndrocky4377]

Hope 🙏 everything’s okay ☮️❤️ (3 months no video)

[@paulahello7435]

Hope all is well.

[@chistian091]

I wonder if he is ever going to be using his flow hive that he built and what started his beekeeping journey

[@sporkintheeye]

Did you split or replace queens this year (and I missed the video)? They just want to swarm. It's their nature. Your new queens look beautiful!

[@vinofarm]

They replaced themselves! I was planning on replacing queens this year and they did it for me.

[@theimax1]

Miss seeing your KZbin clips. Hope everything is ok. How was your honey harvest

[@johndrocky4377]

6 for 6? LETS GO!! CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎈🍾🎊

[@ulloa8521]

3 months and no updates, hope everything is good, the farm is preparing for winter i think.

[@vinofarm]

Lots of updates. Just not on KZbin yet. All is good. Stay tuned.

[@jtn2002]

Seems like things are BEE-utiful once again. Very curious about Bee Barn 2.0. I also wonder if there will be some changes that might be applicable for us in warmer climates (like me in Central Florida; though by no means am I a beekeeper)!

[@vinofarm]

Whatever I make will be useable anywhere, with minor tweaks. The concept of a super insulated hive with deep brood boxes would work in hot or cold.

[@BillHerzig]

Jim, Just thought of another question, maybe you answered it in your first 'Bee Barn' video, but I was just curious why you went with a combination of the deep and medium frames, rather than a double deep frame? TIA

[@vinofarm]

It’s the “Goldilocks” brood space size for my location. Others might want double deep or larger. We have a 4 month brood season and 7 month winter.

[@BillHerzig]

@@vinofarm Thanks for the information, I need to find out what our brood season is down here in North Carolina. I am only going to build one or two hives so I just want to make sure that they have enough room.

[@bluzervic]

I had the same issue, swarms happened when I was caught off guard with my job demanding a lot of my time. Fortunately I caught 2 swarms to make up for it. Both hives are on fire. Can’t wait to see beebarn 2.0…. Great video

[@drewbravo8683]

Thanl you very much for all your hard wrok inthis endevor, I am eggerly wantiing to build a bee barn, pleaase kindly provide ths plans. I watch your videos and find them to the point and very informtive, Thank you

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Thanks for the update!

[@richardvogel1195]

Can't wait

[@budgiebreder]

I kinda wanted you to have to make another balboa hive :( Glad theres queens though!

[@vinofarm]

I need to do that… need another backup.

[@budgiebreder]

@@vinofarm dont you have a spare resource hive still?

[@budgiebreder]

@@vinofarm also do you have any local bee friends? You could trade a hive with a bee friend and then have an off-site balboa backup that way? Just incase?

[@charlesfrye9542]

Have you kept up on the swarm trap you did a couple of years ago?

[@vinofarm]

Never caught a thing except mice. I could try again, but I’m not looking to expand right now.

[@georgebrush9538]

So how do you move bees from a standard hive to your new Bee Barn hive

[@vinofarm]

Watch the first 5 minutes of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2qVgayCpZylgJY

[@user-sn7wt1mw3g]

Сегодня посмотрел Ваши видео, которые ты снимал весь год.

[@jasonjohnson1984]

Hey Mr. Jim the frames what is the length and the middle pieces what's the measurements wanting to try to make the frames for spring thanks sir

[@vinofarm]

Overall length is about 15 3/4”. The blocks are there to hold the foundation in place. The whole process is very tedious and somewhat dangerous on a table saw. Please be careful.

[@jasonjohnson1984]

Thanks Mr. Jim

[@kennith.]

Looking forward to ver 2.0, thank you for the update. I thought you had a few nucs on the side or did you get rid of those?

[@vinofarm]

6 nucs right now. (3 double resource hives). They’re bigger than regular nucs. I have two of them supered!

[@kennith.]

@@vinofarm Thx Jim.

[@N.anaYaw]

Hello. What's the depth of your brood frames? Thanks

[@vinofarm]

About 16”

[@michaelsabados3829]

“The creator can be seen in all the works of His hands, but none more clearly than the wise economy of the honey bee.” - (Reverend) L.L. Langstroth

[@sidelinerbeekeeper]

2nd year queens will fill up the hive with brood and swarm, you see that now, right? "What did we learn today", strong colonies make swarms. Average colonies make honey. Three ways to prevent swarming and make honey(the purpose we keep bees for), 1 remove the queen(lots of honey made), 2 remove the bees(not much honey), 3 remove the brood(split five weeks before the flow is the most popular approach to making honey). You appear to want new queens so I would have removed the queen and leave behind 1 cell only. Healthy 2nd year queens left to their own devices swarm is what we need to learn.

[@JustBees]

Hoping for an update

[@lawrenceweigel4000]

I decided to not wait on next video and just built what I had materials for. We have already had a few freezing nights. Mine will just hinge and latch around my established double deep hives. I have 2 hives and my insulation boxes are almost finished.

[@TheBradybuck]

Have you thought about adding an upper entrance into your supers above your excluder? Why or why not?

[@vinofarm]

No upper openings for two main reasons: 1. Heat loss 2. Robbing

[@firefly4f4]

I honestly was getting worried not seeing a video from you in several weeks, and not being on Instagram I figured you were up to something; getting ready for a big update of some sort. And now I get to see that my suspicions were correct.

[@vinofarm]

Aside from family and “life” I have a ton of other projects going on and I’m still trying to finish my barn. Beekeeping and KZbin are about 1/10th of my life. If I don’t post a video every week, it’s not from lack of content… just lack of time.

[@darkart-mr8wu]

I been doing bee's for eight years all I have to say is swarms happen. Yeah it sucks. Had three queen's one year flew to another bee yard 8 mile away. The owner was 😂 because he needed new stock for his yard and worst new they where mine. On year six one of his hive swarmed into an old bee hive I had in my Barn and the 🤣 thing is he wanted her back. I never laughed so hard in my life.

[@darkart-mr8wu]

Side Note this happened on year three with my queen's.he told me if they fly into his yard their his unless I proved it in court. Took three years to return his advice.

[@vinofarm]

@@darkart-mr8wu Beekeepers are weirdos.

[@apveening]

@@darkart-mr8wu Karma is a lovely bitch ;)

[@davidgarner3071]

I just watched you inspect 5 hives and found the queen on the first frame you pulled on each hive you checked. Show me how you did that.

[@vinofarm]

I used the Final Cut Pro technique.

[@dickymint4109]

@@vinofarm lol

[@DavidMoneyMovesJourney]

It looks awesome. I want to get into beekeeping. Watching your videos is making me go for it next year.

[@billc3405]

Maybe if you feed more pollen patties for build up.

[@twistin140]

any new updates? need to hear from the bee man. Go Balboa!

[@td4190]

Any chance you're going to the 2023 Hive life conference in Tennessee this year. If so I would love to see you and talk to you

[@vinofarm]

I’m not planning on it at the moment.

[@td4190]

@@vinofarm ok well still love your videos

[@twistin140]

we're into Oct..... any update on the bees? really missing your videos and content....

[@vinofarm]

See pinned comment. Bees are awesome. Busy building. Stay tuned.

[@cascades500]

How is it going? Any more great videos?

[@waltermullins1417]

Side note, the link for your square veil is not working, and I'm wondering if there is a different one that you can post?

[@vinofarm]

This is not the exact one I use, but I own it as a backup and it is almost the same. amzn.to/3UyTRuu

[@waltermullins1417]

@@vinofarm Thank you so much for the swift reply! I've been watching your beekeeping videos for a couple weeks, in between the lectures for the heroes to hives college course. I'm a huge fan of the way you do things, and I'm looking forward to making hives similar to yours this winter so that I can hopefully start my beekeeping journey next spring!

[@CiMAViDEOX]

Hi, Do you have "Varroa" in your country? Thanks

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[@wadebarnes6720]

Do you have a video showing how to build those

[@curtferguson1421]

I've followed your videos for quite some time. I helped my uncle with beekeeping for a few years as a teen, I'm now in my 40's and decided to get a hive and get back into it a bit as a relaxing hobby. I chose Italian Carniolans, southeastern US. I'd never dealt with this breed before, my uncle kept some form of European darker colored bee, I was a teen, not too sure. I don't care what anybody says, the breeds act very differently. These carnies are so very gentle. I've had them in the hive for about six weeks now, keeping them fed, started them in one deep box and just gave them a second one about 10 days ago. They have built up so very fast. As I said, super gentle. I haven't been stung a single time seriously. Once gently, but that was because the bee got caught in the fold of my elbow when I bent my arm, but when I opened it, this bee literally corkscrewed itself out without injecting venom and went on about its business, I know there was no venom because the instant the bee left there wasn't even any irritation. Anyway, just wanted to say that your videos have reminded me of a lot of things, and taught me some new things, that have helped make sure I didn't make a number of mistakes. So, thank you.

[@grncrtr]

Why not replace the weak queen with one from a mix & replace the mix with the queen cells?

[@goranstojanov1160]

When will the next video drop? Its been a WHILE....

[@weneedhopethankyou1513]

I have loved your bee yard play by play for years now. 💯

[@DougMcHone]

I'm excited for BB2.0! I am building with untreated cedar fence pickets, sandwiching the rigid foam insulation to lower costs. I can make a full size Bee Barn for roughly $55 in materials right now. Would swarm prevention be more a matter of doing a preemptive split each Spring?

[@vinofarm]

Absolutely... if you want splits. I don't, but these bee barns are split factories if that's the direction you want to go.

[@donaldgulledge729]

Love your channel and all the experience you share. The selfish part of me is restless to see 2.0 as I am currently building my own bee yard for next summer - but I understand you holding back until you've got it right and the time needed to complete and edit the videos. That said I'm eagerly waiting. I have my guesses on some of the changes and it will be fun to see if we match up on things.

[@mickwwalker1]

Vino Do you have Plans for your NEW Hive Design?

[@trashpanda9433]

Not a bee person, just an engineer that thinks bees are cool. But maybe to fix some of the problems you have had with your "bee barns" you could either make the sloped roof removable so it snugly fits overtop with a lip and or make some insulated supers now that only half the system needs the extra heat. There's a good chance all the heat was shooting up to the bare supers before, but you never knew or could tell.

[@lakshmimanasa7217]

What happend ! Long time no video... It's been three months since you uploaded a video. Hope everything is alright.

[@vinofarm]

Busy. I’ll be back soon. All is good.

[@AlchemistDagger]

I'm in Phoenix, AZ. Inspired by your videos (and a few other sources) I decided to try insulating my hives, to keep out the heat. I am trying different configurations of insulation, and all of them are showing significant improvement. We are in the middle of dirth right now and the bees are still able to make honey and brood, I think because they aren't having to consume resources to cool the hive in 110F weather. Keep up the good work and good vids. Thx.

[@vinofarm]

Yes!

[@bluzervic]

Would love to see how that works out… heat is a problem here but not nearly as much… no super cold winters either

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

In your heat you might benefit more from reflective insulative paint. I just did a video on Thermocels.

[@TheBradybuck]

Updates??

[@johnolsen1192]

What is the coldest it gets back there Here in Montana we get -40 Is sometimes colder

[@vinofarm]

-15F to -20F is the coldest I’ve seen here.

[@kamoboko86]

When is the next update?