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

[@beccacobb5835]

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

[@beefarmerjake]

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?

[@beefarmerjake]

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.

[@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! 🍯👍🤞

[@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!

[@Dog-z5g]

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

[@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.

[@noonehead]

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

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank YOU! ♥️ I appreciate your support!🐝

[@billwhitehurst2787]

Thank you you are spot on. Great job.

[@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.

[@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.

[@carybruton7284]

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

[@donyork8641]

Excellent video! Thank you!!

[@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 🤞🏼

[@beesandtractors]

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

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Amen to that!

[@BeeryBees]

Well said!

[@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...

[@aanadyia4582]

Thank you Emily!!

[@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.

[@Cody-fc5br]

BEEKEEPERS UNITE! good stuff keep up the good work

[@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.

[@jvm3753]

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

[@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 ☺️

[@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.

[@davidwyllie6546]

Great information! Thanks.

[@arnoldgoluboff8822]

Good info thank you

[@beefitbeekeeping]

Thank YOU for watching ♥️♥️

[@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.

[@BrianJMader54476]

Beekeeper here in Wisconsin, in Taylor County😎👍

[@exvictorian3605]

Thank you

[@beefitbeekeeping]

You betcha! Thanks for watching! 🐝

[@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 ♥️

[@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.

[@Cody-fc5br]

Honey is the most counterfeited item in the world

[@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.

[@ninacentofanti1951]

Very good info keep spreding the word thank Emily.

[@beefitbeekeeping]

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

[@lesjohnson2916]

Thank you !

[@DerekCampbellIS]

Thank you.

[@joshtibbs6377]

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

[@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

[@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. 😅

[@bnobel74]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@BudFord-t2i]

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

[@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.

[@harveycardwell7274]

We can do it for sure!!

[@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. ;)

[@gene-sloca]

Save the Beekeeper .

[@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 🍯

[@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.

[@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.

[@aaronparis4714]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@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 👍🐝🍯

[@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?

[@rubytuby6369]

Love you gorgeous honey hair color, honey…❤😊

[@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 ...😢

[@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 ♥️

[@Blackswan19874]

We can do it !!

[@beefitbeekeeping]

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

[@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!😂

[@dewaynehamrick2906]

“Control the food, you control the people”

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@krash169us]

There is no legal definition for honey in the United States

[@bjrningebrserud4518]

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

[@MrStreetninja007]

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

[@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

[@iiimcg4752]

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

[@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."

[@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.

[@aaronparis4714]

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

[@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...

[@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!

[@bret2080]

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

[@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!

[@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. 🇦🇺

[@2003mitchdog]

I used to work for Kroger for 20 years, started beekeeping after I quit there. I stocked their Kroger brand "Honey" for a good portion and tasted. That's definitely fake honey! It tastes more like sugar, hardly any flavor.

[@Steele_Wings]

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

[@mrwonk]

Have no fear; a new sheriff comes to town January 20th. These foreign honey's won't be an issue much longer and neither will excess government regulation on beekeepers be a problem.

[@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😂

[@u.s.janitorial-services]

Real honey consumers know different between store sells and local sells

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

When you pardon Hunter....

[@Dallan-x9c]

I bought honey from the store this year, that is fake. It almost passed the water test, but it's not all a bee product. It tastes like imitation maple extract, with hints of brown sugar, and molasses. I am sure it has corn syrup in it too. The bottle has some wax at the top like honey might have, but that's probably from core syrup being mixed with a little bit of hot raw-unfiltered honey, and flavored sugar water. It cost $12.99 for a 5 pound jug in Boise Idaho. It was marked. "U.S. Grade A product of Argentina." Also "True source certified." Contents just said "Honey." Then it said "Warning: Honey should not be fed to infants under one year old." I thought that was funny. I think it should have said; Warning may contain some honey, and any kind of unknown chemicals not listed. If they lie about it being honey, what else is in it? It might not have anything food grade in it.

[@coincollector315]

Attempting to educate others should come with some level of accountability. So Beekeeping as a whole IS NOT regulated under the EPA or FDA and they have no rules governing how our business functions. The individual States determine what they allow. What she should be referring to specifically is the pest control products that we beekeepers use to control some issues from pests destroying our bee colonies. She lacks serious credibility when she says things like “organic acids like Oxalic Acid pose no threat to man or the environment”It’s staggering what some people will say without doing any research on their own. LOOK IT UP! As little as 5 to 15 grams of Oxalic acid(71 mg/kg) may be fatal to humans. Organic does not mean entirely harmless! The reason we have labels on products is to show users that these products are dangerous and REQUIRE PPE. We often like to use pesticides to control other insects like the Varroa mites, Small Hive Beetles, and Wax Moths to name a few. We also may look to use antibiotics to control issues like EFB. These products need to be controlled or supervised by veterinarians to avoid over application or improper application resulting in bacterial resistance or viral mutation like we have seen time and time again. Yes they need to be regulated so we know what might be happening to the bees in the first place. Africanized Honeybees were created by well intentioned people! These two agencies DO REGULATE drugs and yes restrictions can be a pain and drug manufacturers do charge a lot to offset the costs of government regulation but sometimes it prevents the death or injury by a well intentioned beekeeper testing a theory. I am a beekeeper and also have a commercial pesticide license issued by NYS DEC.

[@Swarmstead]

Inaccuracies will never stop her.

[@luchts4547]

Is "True Source Honey" labeling legit or not?

[@offgridbydesign3826]

Time to complain to your Seantor and Congress...

[@2003mitchdog]

I can barely sell any of my honey people are dumb nowadays and want to buy everything from a corporate store instead of supporting local. I lost all 6 of my hives last winter due to improper moisture control. Had to start fresh this year and basically haven't made any money back only lost money. Heck I've used more honey in my coffee than I've sold.

[@susancampbell2112]

Hopefully the next 4 years the FDA can take charge and will change the labeling laws and regulations for honey. Now is the time to make changes.

[@teddyc32963]

Sounds like something Bill Gates would be involved in.

[@DavidDavid-uh8ry]

R.F. Kennedy would love this info. Hes going after the food industry. Hines catsup has 2 ingredient in Canada, butt load here. pharmaceutical makes money on us.

[@luchts4547]

I don't see how he'll be allowed to do anything he claims to want to do in a GOP administration with a GOP congress. Everything he wants to do are regulations and limitations on how corporations run their business. Historically the GOP always sides with the corporations, cuts regulations, and lets them do whatever they want to maximize profits no matter how bad it is for customers, the environment, their employees, etc because "government telling them what they can and can't do is communism". The corporations have lobbyists throwing money at legislators that we cannot compete with. I expect the freedom of big corporations to cheat and deceive in all their practices to only increase in the coming years, and they'll probably get some big tax breaks on top of that.

[@Cody-fc5br]

I dont know if id call facebook a blessing

[@dcsblessedbees]

I agree

[@charlesmaurer6214]

It also doesn't help with over feeding bees during the harvest period with bees mixing syrup with nectar. One thing I look for is I prefer only with a bit of comb in the jars as I also want to insure a small pollen content is still present.

[@aaronparis4714]

They are a scam I would be worried about them

[@Vogda]

Thanks for the video. What about if there is a law that forbit to name fake honey HONEY. They can name it something like "honey derived" or something like that.