Making fondant patties with benefits for your bees in the winter!

[@iditarod4081]

What's that board you show at the end do you put that over the sugar Patty? If you're just using it for the hole can't you use an inner cover? Or if you're using it for insulation can't you just shove some in the top cover?

[@robgarvin5634]

great video. I just tried making fondant and it didnt work. can I reuse it and try again. still very crystallized and just crumbles

[@TheBaconWizard]

How are you ensuring that the bought pollen has no AFB or other spores in it?

[@bjrningebrserud4518]

I was thinking the same… Main rule should be; use only pollen, honey etc from your own bees.

[@elliemariesal]

Thank you. I am new this was very helpful!

[@mathtutor5916]

You seem to know alot about sugar alchemy through high temperatures so i would love a clearification- how come i've heard many others say that when making syrop it's not good to boil water or even get it very hot. Is there validity to those claims?? Thank you - love your video.

[@TheBaconWizard]

Boiling sugar, especially in the presence of any acids, produces a substance that is toxic to bees over time. hydroxymethylfurfural. Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). It's not lethal. But they won't live as long nor work as efficiently. It's why high-fuctose corn syrup isn't as good as ordinary table-sugar syrup, to feed them.

[@bjrningebrserud4518]

Good point! If you heat/boil the sugar syrup above 112 degrees Celsius it turn in to poison for the bees.

[@susieclark9473]

Tells us the amount of essential oils to use to honey be healthy.

[@yeseniaosorio7843]

I need to make this for my sweeties bees. It’s cold and windy. Today I went out and a few bees were dead😢but there’s a few more outside in a branch of a blackberry tree.

[@paulm8392]

Boiling the sugar, you are effectively making Scottish tablet... you should add a drop of vanilla essence and keep a plate for yourself (obviously don't add the pollen and other bee stuff). I read bees don't like oil, so would you not be better just pouring the sugar out onto a piece of baking paper? You could fold it over to wrap it up and tape it shut to store. I think it would be cheaper too than buying paper plates all the time. I saw other candy boards where they added vinegar to prevent mould, but I read vinegar is fatal to bees so I do not add that to mine - do you have any view on that? Thanks

[@homershoneybeeandsupplies5691]

I like using the paper plates because it is a little runny when I plate them keeps it concentrated in a 10" space that fits nicely right over the cluster. The cluster has to be in touch with the patty for them to eat it when it's cold. Plus sometimes I cracks, during transportation to the hive, in the plate which keeps it easier to keep together till I place the pieces on the cluster in the hive. They have had no issue with the small amount of oil. I use oil in the pollen patties make and use essential oils in the honey bee healthy, and salvation salve thyomal grease patties I make to treat for tracheal mites and helps control varroa mites as well.

[@robinlewisart_1997]

Thanks awesome video

[@orhanarabac6260]

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[@homershoneybeeandsupplies5691]

See our recipe on our website. But I use real bee pollen and honey bee healthy (recipe is also on the website, but has 3 essential oils spearmint, lemongrass, lavender)

[@SS-eq4wj]

How long can you store them and what is the best way to store?

[@homershoneybeeandsupplies5691]

I keep the fondant on the paper plate in a gallon zip lock bag. Should be kept in a cool dry location. If they get heated up in a hot shed or building they will become gooey. I usually try to use them up by early spring when I shift to liquid feed, and not keep them through the summer. But they will store even then in a cool dry area.

[@houstonsheltonbees814]

Excellent job man 👍 thanks 👍

[@howardmcadams3852]

Thanks Sir

[@seanjordan3870]

You should do a sound check. Can't hear you...

[@JR-kk6ce]

Sorry guys, I'm new to keeping bees and I keep seeing video after video of grown men cooking for bees. What's really going on here?

[@rourribeck5578]

ok... so you need to feed the bees during the winter, the early spring and the fall "dearth"... when the amount of pollen and nectar are really low and when water is scarce. you can set up watering stations in your yard but that is another conversation for another day. As stressed as the bees are now, they need help to keep going as we are putting too much neonectoids and pesticides out there. I just started keeping bees last spring, and I thought feeding them was kinda crazy too. They are under stress from the climate changes and the mite population that has gotten out of control. I started with a new package of bees last year...and I fed them all thru the spring, then again fall and made this guys sugar cakes for the winter. I put this and a bit of pollen cake that I get from my local folks in and check the hive only when its up to 60 degrees during a warm spell...I did 3 checks this winter. the weather was with me, and my single hive survived its first year (yay)...This is about the time (early spring) that you switch over from making these sugar cakes to making sugar water. I like doing the water better only as I can fit more feeders in and I can put an extra box ontop to allow for the jars of sugar water. if you are still freezing overnight it doesn't work... they cant keep that semi-empty box warm, the sugar water freezes, and they can't eat...so fondant cakes just above the area to the cluster of bees inside is ideal.

[@iditarod4081]

Lol

[@arthurhague4205]

You need to read up on more

[@Jerry-tp9kf]

Cannot hear you.