Permaculture Chemical Free Beekeeping

Farmsteader Greg Burns talks about his permaculture approach to raising bees on his farmstead. Natures Image Farm: www.naturesimagefarm.com/
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[@tjiacab3272]

Good set up, love to see young folks living close to the land and learning how to grow food. Some of the bees are getting hammered by chemicals and un-natural weather patterns these days. Good video, thank you and we enjoyed watching. Never miss an opportunity to tell your kids that they matter and that you love them. We lost a son at his 30 year mark, seeing the young boy brings back great memories of our son when he was growing up.

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Thankyou for sharing that and for the reminder to cherish every moment.

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Wow! What a great blast from the past! Thanks for sharing Diego. Much has changed since this video. We now run about 200 colonies. Beekeeping is now our main farm enterprise. We have had to adapt to our weather, pest loads, pest management and equipment as we've scaled up which has been very interesting when Ideals are humbled by Reality. #beethechange #beethelighthouse

[@catlindarnell2367]

Very cool bud congratulations and appreciate your work taking a more natural approach hope it keeps working for ya. Interested to see the update video, so when was this one done last year?

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

@@catlindarnell2367 I believe that was 4-5 years ago when Diego visited. We use products that are considered organic such as Oxalic Acid and Thymol to help keep mites down. The Essential Oil approach proved to be ineffective for mites but is helpful for other things.

[@catlindarnell2367]

@@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns That sucks about the mites id like to do some expermineting with different types of antimicrobial plants an tree's. The annona species of fruit and those related with similar properties might be my first try the pawpaw/Asiminia that is native would be easier to get in quantity if they work the same.

[@danicamills7029]

Do you every travel to indiana to sell your bees?

[@BrooklandsHoneyBees]

Great video guys always great to see the youngens getting involved! Hope you are all well :)

[@kolapyellow7631]

I love honey, hope I can keep bees one day.

[@stephenbinion6348]

God knows I’ve had no success with bees. Thanks.

[@needsomehike]

how do you protect them from EMF? (radiation from mobile phones and cell towers)

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

We don’t, and it doesn’t appear to affect them in the slightest.

[@needsomehike]

@@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns A beekeeper told me it would....then i read it in the "Invisible Rainbow"....then i did some research and got it confirmed. But thanks for taking the time replying me, much appreciated.

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

@@needsomehike not familiar with that but I don’t see any issues at all in my area. Maybe I’m just lucky? While I imagine nothing is without consequence, I’ve not heard from any fellow beekeepers of various scales and locations that it’s actually a concern.

[@needsomehike]

@@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns is "bees are dying" a myth?

[@toomuchgarden6898]

5g operates at 28 and 39 Gigahertz whereas honeybees operate at something closer to 250 Hz. Which is way slower than 5G so it has had no effect on the density of the honey. But it has apparently negatively impacted the blackberry