BEEKEEPING IS UNDER ATTACK! And I need your help! Beekeeping 101

[@beccacobb5835]

Appreciate you dedication to our community by informing us of these issues!

[@ThomasMincarelli-fj8cu]

Perfect job explaining what’s going on. I’m going into my 4th year in Black Mountain NC @ 3,200’ elevation. My bees survived Hurricane Helene thanks to being on my mountain top. Good luck to all the beekeepers in 2025! 🍯👍🤞

[@beekeeperjake]

Great video. We are fighting hard here in TX. Was just discussing 2025 video ideas to start outing packers. We have to stand together as BEEKEEPERS. Thank you for sharing!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

I agree! We do need to band together. I would love to meet ya, are you going to NAHBE?

[@beekeeperjake]

I won’t! Gonna be busy already prepping for almonds. Only went to AHPA this year.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Oh darn! Well thank you for doing what you can to fight the honey problem too, I’ll keep an eye out for your videos this year. Outing packers would be a fun watch.

[@richardrbrynerjr.7912]

Keeping bees with a smile in Amherst Ohio my bees are thriving and I do not feed or treat so the strong will survive!

[@dey4588]

People I talk to all want raw filtered honey. Many people know. Keep spreading the word!

[@billwhitehurst2787]

Thank you you are spot on. Great job.

[@noonehead]

Love your Vids. thank for shinning some light on the industry!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank YOU! ♥️ I appreciate your support!🐝

[@bobgruener]

Emily,thank you for this video. I've been keeping bees for 27 years and I have seen how the awareness on this issue has been brought up more often. It's one of the jobs that ALL beekeepers need to be passing on to non beekeepers. Keep up the good work!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

I agree, we need to band together to protect our bees! Thank you for watching and supporting this important cause!

[@DaleBolianatz]

Please come give me more information of what’s going on at all times with Bees and keep up your good work. You are reaching out to people to inform them and help them achieve. Be survival. Thank you so much. Be aware of what’s going on

[@dcsblessedbees]

Good Job on this one Emily up to 10k+ views.👍

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thanks for watching! ♥️♥️ I really appreciate your constant support!

[@Donna-z3z]

My husband is a local beekeeper here in Michigan. He only has a small colony of bees,but he does pretty good with it. I would love to be able to get his honey on the local store shelves someday.

[@brucesbees]

I think if we could figure out a way to shut down the influx of foreign honey it would help the prices go up and be more profitable for beekeepers. You make some good points here.

[@dariuszdata1431]

@@brucesbees Yes! Honey and olive oil are the most counterfeit foods in the US. Much of the honey coming from China and Brazil is adulterated and almost never inspected because of how expensive and time consuming it is. We should write a letter to Trump to ban imported honey 🤔🤣 all joking aside I think he would do it. ' make honey great again!" 🐝. The culture of honey is not very strong in our country. All across the world honey comes in different grades based on the type of flowers. In Morocco the most expensive honey is thyme honey, in Poland it's black locust and forest supernectarine honey, New Zealand has Manuka.. In America all local honey sells for the same price. Beekeeping is one of the most underrated, underpaid professions in my humble opinion

[@LairdKenneth]

Thanks for the heads up. We can stick to buying from local beekeepers, and encouraging others to do the same. If done enough, big stores will catch on.

[@gilfordhaines]

Great video, wonderful information. I talk with as many people as possible. We need to find a way to educate the general public as well...

[@bcmccoy4127]

Great info. I forwarded to Thomas Massie my KY congressman.

[@2003mitchdog]

Need to get this info to RFK JR as well don't want the FDA taking this over

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank you so much for putting forth the effort to help the beekeeping industry! It would be awesome is RFK started putting tariffs on all imported honey 🤞🏼

[@tdvanwinkle]

Thank you. USDA and FDA have been allowing dilution of high end oils for years. It was natural it would spread to other products. We need our food protection agencies to insure our food that is labeled as pure is in fact pure. Chinese honey almost all shows mold spores under a microscope. Packagers of honey buy USA produced product at a great wholesale price. There is plenty of room for profit at the grocer wholesale price. Keep up the good fight.

[@tomvanaalst5790]

I made it to the end. As I just about always do. As a new beekeeper in Canada I can't speak to some of the American conditions. But everything sounded extremely accurate to me.

[@JarsOfHoneyTN]

Well done Emily!! Thanks for helping bring this to light.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank you so much for watching and helping to spread the word! We need to band together ♥️

[@THE_WATCHER_GAMES]

I’m educating myself to start beekeeping, and while there’s so much to learn, it’s amazing to dive into all this knowledge. I’ve already stopped buying Walmart honey because I realized what I thought was honey wasn’t the real deal. I don’t have any bees yet because I’m taking the time to learn more and plan to sign up for my local beekeeping association here in Texas. Great video thank you!

[@DaleBolianatz]

Please come give me more information of what’s going on at all times with Bees and keep up your good work. You are reaching out to people to inform them and help them achieve. Be survival. Thank you so much.

[@mikerevendale4810]

Thanks for being an outspoken advocate for beekeepers! I recently watched a 17 minute video on this platform regarding the fake honey problem in Europe. The title is "Shocking Discovery at Paris SIAL: Counterfeit Honey from the Factory". It really cleared up my confusion as to why products sold as honey here in the U.S. are relatively inexpensive too. We had a local honey packer change ownership several years ago. And I've recently seen their quart jars of raw "clover honey" priced at $8.50 in a retail business. There's simply no was that's legitimate honey; it's been like 20 years since we've seen such retail prices for genuine honey. And I hadn't heard the about the FDA wanting to micromanage beekeeping; that's dire news indeed. Restrictions on mite treatments will create an added burden on hobbyist and small scale beekeepers alike in an endeavor that's already expensive and challenging. Thanks for your continued efforts to raise awareness. Great work!

[@jweaver7170]

Thanks for the information. We were all in trouble.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Yes we were! We need to band together to fight for our bees!

[@donyork8641]

Excellent video! Thank you!!

[@JoneyJefe]

Great info/video Emily. Beekeeper approved!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thanks for watching! I really appreciate the support!

[@JoneyJefe]

@@beefitbeekeeping absolutely. Also, you are spot on. My nephews hated the taste of honey with a passion until they had mine. They never had PURE honey before mine, only from the store. You hit the nail on the head with this video. It was nice meeting you both in Louisville today. Please keep up the phenomenal work you both do.

[@jvm3753]

Plain and simple; control the food, control the population!!

[@Cody-fc5br]

BEEKEEPERS UNITE! good stuff keep up the good work

[@richardvogel1195]

I started beekeeping 2 years ago. I was thinking a good hive might produce 5 pounds of honey a year and that I could stay with 2 hives. After a bit of a learning curve I now have 12 hives and hundreds of pounds of honey. I'm gonna have to get a label and start selling it. I really don't like that idea but I'm not sure what I'm gonna do yet lol

[@mikeries8549]

Hang in there. The market will come to you if your product is good. It is. I sell my entire crop every year in various size jars. We have a bottling tank and custom bottle it. We get $70/gallon in half gallon jars. It gets more by the quart or pint. It's raw honey and will turn to crystals

[@motormaker]

You could wholesale it in 5gallon buckets. It’s the lowest price but easier for a small beekeeper ,who isn’t into sales, to deal with.

[@Dog-z5g]

Great video,seen her at Louisville convention she’s amazing and I love all her videos

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Aw, thank you so much! Kasey and I absolutely loved meeting you!! I hope you made it home safe!

[@davidwyllie6546]

Great information! Thanks.

[@adivax3]

Adding a QR code is a good idea. Even for us backyard beekeepers.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

I would love to see it!! Thank you for being here ♥️

[@BeeryBees]

Well said!

[@bret2080]

On point, Pplease read for reference " Honey by Eva Crane MSc PhD." Page169. 5.4 Acids of Honey

[@ninacentofanti1951]

Very good info keep spreding the word thank Emily.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thanks for watching! We’ve got to keep fighting for our bees!

[@aanadyia4582]

Thank you Emily!!

[@BrianJMader54476]

Beekeeper here in Wisconsin, in Taylor County😎👍

[@TrickyTrev01]

Awesome information, same thing is here in Oz. Been like it for years, very different for the local beekeepers. Most people who try our honey can’t believe the taste. Thanks for sharing and spreading the word. TrickyTrev 🇦🇺👍🍯🐝

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank YOU for being here and doing what you can to help fight the problem ♥️ is beekeepers need to band together

[@TrickyTrev01]

@ yes I talk to lot of people, coworkers, family and anyone who wants to know about bees 🐝 and honey 🍯 and issues within the beekeeper community/industry. Thanks again 👍🐝🍯

[@timothylaforest9603]

That is good thing to bring up to the in coming administration, RFK to be specific.

[@Steele_Wings]

Government will not pay for the imported pest that killed our bees.

[@u.s.janitorial-services]

Real honey consumers know different between store sells and local sells

[@beesandtractors]

I have no problem selling my honey at my prices. Cheap honey aint good and good honey aint cheap.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Amen to that!

[@DerekCampbellIS]

Thank you.

[@lesjohnson2916]

Thank you !

[@DepartmentSupervisor-s2u]

Nice video and analysis of the issue. This is not an issue limited to honey, its our entire food supply. The solution is buy local honey from beekeepers like ourselves. Our product is superior, our customers know it and are willing to pay what its worth. Bottom line, what is a person's health worth? Say what you will, but the actual issue is a government that has been sold to the highest bidder. "Follow the money."

[@alecjaquez9194]

Thanks for that brief tutorial many of all you said I was not aware of. That is a big warning 🚩. I do think if one company has all the bee hive. They can change the law just to fee them only.

[@BudFord-t2i]

If they know. They just don't care. Hopefully changes are coming

[@Peekul1]

I think the big food companies got a lot of laws passed against cottage industry canned goods and honey was caught in some of that too. Honey is a tough business. Competition is hard. There need to be better, faster tests for adulterated honey but I think it's hard to identify honey sugars vs other sugars.

[@gene-sloca]

Save the Beekeeper .

[@arnoldgoluboff8822]

Good info thank you

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank YOU for watching ♥️♥️

[@harveycardwell7274]

We can do it for sure!!

[@dewaynehamrick2906]

“Control the food, you control the people”

[@exvictorian3605]

Thank you

[@beefitbeekeeping]

You betcha! Thanks for watching! 🐝

[@Cody-fc5br]

Honey is the most counterfeited item in the world

[@Blackswan19874]

We can do it !!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Yes we can! Thank you for helping spread the word 🥰♥️♥️

[@harveycardwell7274]

Where I live I continue to explain these exact facts! Most poeple are sick of what these 3 letter agencies are doing to our country!! I sell my quarts for 25$ and half quart for 15$. I'm in portland oregon area. Anyone need honey in this area hit me up!

[@VolkmanHoneyFarms]

I'm 46 and have around 80 hives. I'll probly quit keeping in 20 years or so. You are exactly right in my opinion about them squeezing away our rights over time.

[@caz4523]

Excellent video...TY

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank you! For watching ☺️

[@caz4523]

@beefitbeekeeping I will get involved...passing this video on to my beekeeping club... I live in Florida

[@innercompass9510]

All imported honey is mixed. Most of it comes from China and sent to other countries to avoid taxes and regulations. China dilutes it and the secondary country dilutes it further. Local honey is always best. Local business have to adapt and overcome, no excuses. It’s all going to come out soon. Local bee keepers should form an association and go after the regulatory agencies.

[@iiimcg4752]

It is written that if fake honey is put on a match it will not ignite but real honey will.

[@benlarnergh3344]

Thank you for this post , very informative. Also something I will keep an eye on in Australia. No doubt we will start to follow suit.

[@SIBEEMAN]

Hi Emily, great video. I was just talking about this with family and about food in general. We as consumers should not have to dissect a food label to interpret if the contents are healthy. Healthy food should be the gold standard and all of the other garbage should be left out and sold elsewhere. We should be able to go into a grocery store and shop with confidence that the food is not contaminated without being charged an exorbitant price.

[@bnobel74]

RFK would be the best place to start and to see if he really cares?

[@gene-sloca]

Great video. This is so sad it is what they are doing with all products now.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

It is 🥺 we all need to band together and fight for a change so that improvement is non negotiable

[@BlanchardsBees]

I'm having difficulty selling my honey here in SW Iowa and considering downsizing. I feel $10 a pound is fair for sweetclover honey 🍯

[@motormaker]

My local rural king store has 5lb jugs of “100% pure honey” for $12.99. I sell a quart(3lbs) For $20. I hope it’s fake honey. If it’s not , we can’t compete with that price.

[@geraltofrivia8529]

I think tropilaelaps could be a huge problem for places where bees dont naturally take brood breaks (Overwinter) but its a natural defence for those that do due to the short life cycle. N.B. The biggest wealth transfer was during covid. Boomers might own a lot, but banks and investment funds own far more and their ideology is not careless it is malicious.

[@dcsblessedbees]

That was just the beginning, they are trying to finish the job.

[@joshtibbs6377]

Here in SC we’ve seen spread losses since the hurricane. USDA estimates that keepers have had an average of 50% loss

[@mikeries8549]

Ignore the price at the store and look at farmers markets to get an idea of what you can charge in your area. Its more than you think. People figure it out that you have premium raw LOCAL honey and word gets out. 😅

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

When you pardon Hunter....

[@rubytuby6369]

Love you gorgeous honey hair color, honey…❤😊

[@richardmarker5476]

We can do it

[@beefitbeekeeping]

♥️ yes we can! Thank you for watching!! I hope you’re keeping warm, and thank you for helping spread the word!

[@powellkingsley3122]

This has been on ongoing. But, a lot of prices have dropped.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

They are unfortunately. You’d think the price would go up with inflation but it hasn’t one bit

[@nikoutzas6155]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH-slYalmZZ0hNk

[@CostasHoneyBees]

Great job getting the word out… point blank, don’t buy from the store. Buy honey from a beekeeper.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Amen to that!!! Thank you for watching and helping spread the word!

[@dimitrisskoulaxinos8946]

We can do it Hello from Greece 🇬🇷 Unfortunately beekeepers here have the exact same issues. Fake honey, fake Chinese syrups mixed with honey, we cannot use legally oxalic acid strips and now huge companies and organisation's are pushing small beekeepers out of the forests ...😢

[@aaronparis4714]

I am in Canada we are a little less strict as USA the tropie mite is in Grorga now in Europe

[@Steele_Wings]

Need to follow Australia approach to honey imports. Need testing labs because counties that cheat can buy another country's import rights.

[@TerryWheelyabarrabackApiary]

Also what about commercial beekeepers That send hives for pollination constantly feeding their bees with sugar and then selling the honey to packers?

[@mikeries8549]

They don't have to feed beyond maintenance. How much do you know about beekeeping and have you ever fed bees and dyed the feed so you could see where it goes?

[@TerryWheelyabarrabackApiary]

@@mikeries8549 Oh the old how much do you know about beekeeping. Dumb question.

[@Peekul1]

I think some local guys do that too. Add a little molasses to get that dark honey people want. 😂

[@motormaker]

The Chinese put pans of rice syrup in front of their hives. As soon as the bees carry it into the hive they call it 100% pure honey.

[@carybruton7284]

Great job my beekeeping girl friend. we are under attack all around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@garrybrischke53]

Product labelling laws are too lax and are designed in favour of the honey packers/ retailers . Bee keepers and consumers are pawns in the game. This is globalisation at work. 🇦🇺

[@mikemcgilvray8558]

I give all my honey away for free it's not always about the money

[@mikeries8549]

I dont. I get a premium price for my honey. I sell it to Dr's and nurses...

[@atlas4225]

Minute 8:00, it sounds like a good time to be able to do without chemical treatments. They breed for weaker bees, stronger pests, kill beneficial mites and microbes and just cost too much. The old argument, if we never started treating this pest would have beat us for 3 years, not 40. Example, how we beat trachea mites. ps, we can do it. ;)

[@Royalsbeesandhoney]

Good topic and video, so much we need to address in beekeeping! As we are not recognized as an actual industry! However, we are needed more than anyone knows! We have been silent too long! I'm 🤔 if JFK JR would help out. I recently watched a video of him with Joel Salatin! Joel is an Organic farmer thats talking about teaming up with JFK JR to bring back the small farmers and give the boot to Big government over reach and red tap! Its a good watch!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

We definitely need to make a stand and fight for our future. I’ll have to look that video up, it would truly bring America back if they did start supporting the small farmers. Monopolies are engulfing every corner of our country

[@luchts4547]

It's RFK Jr btw, JFK Jr is dead (well unless you believe some crazy Q conspiracy theories). If RFK Jr genuinely wants to make food healthier, he would propose regulations banning adulterated honey or at least requiring clear labeling that it's not pure honey. These kinds of regulations on business are antithetical to GOP philosophy, though, and the big corporate fake honey sellers will throw a lot of money at the GOP congress and cry "that's communism for government to tell us how to run our business!!!"

[@Royalsbeesandhoney]

​​Here's that video. It's not as exciting as beekeeping but I like the way there thinking! I believe Trump just put him in charge of the FDA and there looking to make changes to help the small farms! Its about 17 min in before they get to the good part. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5XKgnttgreofcksi=OI9oIhDvQMuVU2Yn

[@jamesraber5517]

Are you coming to the Bee Expo in Louisville KY

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Yes! I’ll be here today and tomorrow. If you see me say hi ☺️

[@time2fly2124]

that geocure thing sounds wayyyyyy too good to be true. they'll pay you triple the going rate for hives, pay you to manage them, pay you to make splits, give you all the equipment to make splits, pay for vacations to hawaii??? i can understand why people are selling out to them.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Humberto at Inside the Hive TV has done a video or two on this subject. Yes it is true, needs to be stopped.

[@bjrningebrserud4518]

Same problem in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and even bigger in Europe (EU)

[@IDVDalot]

How does one get the "American Bee Journal"

[@beefitbeekeeping]

From what I see, the easiest way is to subscribe to it online. I have the link to their website in the description of this video ♥️

[@lt35phila]

Sometimes they don't add to the honey. They just feed bees sugar syrup which get turned into sugar syrup honey

[@shermanpetersen3065]

Hopefully the new administration will do something about this.

[@luchts4547]

Not much hope of beekeeping staying in the EPA if the EPA gets shut down. Wonder what ideas brainworms will have for us...

[@Prisacarul]

In europe we already need a prescription in order to get a varoa treatment. It became more difficult to purchase the treatments.

[@davidpotts3844]

USA follows same fails as Europe and other countries

[@beesandtractors]

Wow... Kind of like doctoring your own cows here. You can't get antibiotics and such anymore unless you go thru a vet

[@davidpotts3844]

@@beesandtractors they don't want us to raise our own foods, they want us to consume the poisons they provide. One table spoon of pure raw honey sustains one life for one day and like so many other things they don't want us to have access to sustain ourselves. Just like they don't want us to have access to HCQ and Ivermectin which fights all viruses and cancers.

[@hillbillyhippiehoneybees304]

Great explanation about fake honey! Its such a big issue!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Yes it is! Hey thanks for watching and being a part of the BeeFit Fam ☺️

[@hillbillyhippiehoneybees304]

@@beefitbeekeeping My brother and I saw you at the Expo as we were walking out to the lobby. I know I was looking at you like "I know that face", lol! As soon as we passed, I said to my brother Hey that was Emily from Beefit. lol!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Awwwe ya should have said hi! I would have loved to meet you!

[@neilbush9873]

How about 2 aus dollars a kilo but send only a fraction of your honey each month to the depo in perth. This is the situation in western aus. "Hive and wellness "has put me out of the buisiness. I am very blessed to have a stall at the albany farmers market but have to drasticaly reduce my production. We dont even have the varroa mite or tropolaps😂

[@davidlance3023]

I learned about fake honey yrs ago. I buy mine from the Amish I known for yrs . Keep up the fight get this off the market

[@4bennybear]

Wouldn't it be cheaper for Geocare to buy a few Politicians then have to buy out a lot of beekeepers to get their way?

[@MrStreetninja007]

We've been having the fake honey problem from China for a while now

[@gamingSlasher]

I bought honey in Sweden in a not so credible area. I dont know but it felt like I was tasting some kind of oil. Had to throw it away. I have found a good source from Munkens. It is really good honey so buy from local and reputable sources. I havent been really sick since I started using Munkens honey. So I dont see this as a problem. Aware honey customers will seek out the real deal, locally. Buy as much as possible locally for robustness and sustainability.

[@daveowens2075]

This is an important issue worldwide, I just noticed Apimondia 2025 will no longer have the honey contest due to-> "The lessons learned from Canada 2019 and Chile 2023 were that adequate testing was impossible if we are to award winning honey at the Congress". The crooks are getting smarter, we need to get the message out. Thanks for your efforts!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

😱 now that’s sad. I have a video to show y’all that popped up on my feed about honey that they are producing in a lab without bees……

[@aaronparis4714]

It’s in real big trouble i just keep 30 hives for myself but I could never run 500 hives lol

[@MrChristopherharmon]

Is GeoCure the same company that Inside the Hive has been covering?

[@MrChristopherharmon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqfMcoaugM1njKMsi=XXxRVSu0H_DWcJiF

[@aanadyia4582]

Yes

[@dcsblessedbees]

Yep

[@gallowaylights]

​@@dcsblessedbees* Is this where everyone is hanging out now!😂

[@krash169us]

There is no legal definition for honey in the United States

[@wadestanton]

In ND I've seen totes of sugar syrup kept full next to apiaries all summer, what kind of honey comes from those apiaries?