Day In The Life Of A Beekeeping Entrepreneur. July

[@woodmax6493]

Near Newport Pembrokeshire here - Phenomenal Spring crop and almost non existent summer crop. My 6 year old son and I love watching your videos. Thanks for making them.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thanks for watching them 😊

[@_J.F_]

That is some lovely calves you got yourself there. A pleasure to have them and not bad for the freezer either later on 😄 I have just finished extracting my summer honey. I would say that I got roughly 50% of what I got last year, which sounds worse than it is as I also got a spring crop for the first time in many, many years. Adding everything up I estimate that I will still be short of roughly 25% though. With the Himalayan Balsam and the clover giving more or less nothing this year due to poor weather it will be a long haul until the Ivy starts up and the bees will be needing a fair bit of feeding in between, particularly with the weather being as poor as it is. On the positive side I don't think I need to worry too much about swarming for the rest of this season.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Yes agree, swarming is well gone.

[@paulajones4999]

The baby is gorgeous.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

😊

[@patgentry7268]

Good video of a good day…thank you for sharing! Robber-control ideas valuable, too!

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you 😊

[@redflag4781]

I'll just be happy getting our two hives through the winter & into 2024 at this point 😂

[@Devonhoneyandcandles]

i love these day in the life videos, the calves look happy and healthy👍. I Just drove down to an apiary to remove supers halfway through the video, 12 hives and only pulled 9 supers about half full each😥. I did pull the spring crop in May at least, and i've boosted my hive count from 20 to 50ish and grafted all my own queens this year so at least it's not been total right off . I hope there is a great ivy flow this year🤞

[@gwenyngruffydd]

That’s a big increase. Great work 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jack00scarecrow]

@@gwenyngruffydd Thanks, this years been a step learning curve so far 😀. Wasps are out in force now, on the hunt!

[@lagrangebees]

I like those plastic protectors, simple idea that protects foam hives :D

[@gwenyngruffydd]

😊💪🏻💪🏻

[@mickhoyle4064]

Great video, thanks, much appreciated. I never took any spring crop due to plans to relocate and by late June I had an average of 5 supers per 14x12 hive full, with the odd double brood even higher. Last week’s inspections shocked me as I had 2 to 3 supers completely empty, with just drawn comb per hive, the bees were hungry and had eaten loads. I'm now rethinking my harvest strategy, I bought a lot of sugar knowing the price was going to rise so I can feed them through the dearth however, I'm considering leaving more stores than usual. Most of all like most beekeepers I'm playing this by ear and reassessing every inspection.

[@dogblackprincehoney]

Sugar and other things have gone up, but honey hasn't. I started to feed my bees 2 weeks ago.

[@IAmSweetPea]

Those are some tail-wagging, happy calves. Well done you!

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you!

[@paulajones4999]

The bee keeping supplies will take off I’m sure. You got to diversify to make enough with bee keeping. It’s a hard day. Satisfying to know your own efforts are paying off.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

😊

[@melaniejenkins109]

Great video, crazy weather this year

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you 😊

[@Ryan-dx8ry]

Enjoyed some of your honey today with some berries it's absolutely delicious never tasted anything like it! Tastes better knowing its supporting someones business too :) next step would be to taste some that I produced myself one day haha

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you 😊

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

Thanks so much for uploading. Great life you have!

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Thank you 😊

[@TheYohtube]

I had 2 big colonies (I only have 10 hives) so I left a half full super on them and removed the excluder so they could continue to filll it ( feeding as necessary)and then go through the winter as a brood and a half.

[@HoneyMarketingBoard]

Rapeseed sets like concrete. I'm surrounded by it in the spring. Get it off as soon as they are full and put the wet supers straight back on.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

😊👍🏻

[@danbrewer]

Sorry to hear it’s a mixed bag of a year. I’m in the same boat spring crop was best ever but the summer is a write off. Fighting to get queens mated and scrounge honey. Still loads of work to do but bring on 2024 😅

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Agree!! Let’s get the crop off and plan for next year!

[@TH-cl5be]

same here m8 its a lesson learnt again this year, bad weather comes next year am straight on wiping that honey off.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Same

[@TH-cl5be]

so are you still on buckfast and blacks, i have noticed my jolanta bees absolutely butcher all my other bees buckfast and Italians in honey production

[@gwenyngruffydd]

Yes, interesting…. I must say I have been very tempted to get some Jolantas to try.