Skep Beekeeping Tasks Through The Year

[@pinocolada4254]

Thanks for uploading. Ate a honeycomb while watching this. Makes me want to start with a skef or 2. What a skef lacks in ease and production is payed back by tradition and elegance. My father has 80 colonies of bees, in modern wooden hives. Been thinking about having a modern beehive or topbar hive even before my father started, my thinking was his kickstarter. He now enjoys the same relaxation like his father got from beekeeping. Nothing on his mind but bees and honey while working the hives. My grandfather was born late '20s, pre urbanisation of our (then dirt poor) hometown. Nothing but small farms, large families, swampy bogs, peat, heaths, and grains. O, and everybody, their pappies and neighbours had some skefs to earn little money and to keep blood sugar levels up to date. Thanks to your upload i'm in, i'll buy 1 or 2 to start. Plan to sow, reap and drye my own winter rye next growing season.

[@togo3624]

Great film. I had no idea skep beekeeping was so sophisticated.

[@TheOhioCountryboy]

It's the oldest form of agriculture, and honeybees are the most studied insects. Very few people still do skep beekeeping. Most beekeepers use boxes with movable frames.

[@laurentguillot4868]

Merci pour le partage 🇫🇷

[@DiegoRuizOrenes]

Excepcional documento

[@Мото-пчеловод]

Замечательно!

[@catchandinstallhoneybees.1901]

wow great

[@johnhaverson6313]

Have you got the video which covers the collection of materiel and the making of the skep? Thanks

[@TheOhioCountryboy]

Yes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4HdZXawfKyUftU

[@mas_rizal06]

how to make the sugar candy?

[@gordonspond]

... The days before varroa and tracheal mites...

[@Dan.Parker]

All man made biological warfare

[@moselkultur5109]

Geschichten aus deutschen Landen

[@ljiljanavukovic7153]

Divno

[@Dan.Parker]

I would bet the cow dung keeps mites and foreign insects to a minimum.

[@texasforever5776]

Instead of cow dung.....they could easily use just mud lol.

[@TheOhioCountryboy]

Mud will crack and flake off. Dung dries as a coating that stays on and waterproofs it.

[@vytisagafonovas3887]

@@TheOhioCountryboy thanks fro clairification. Man it was nasty :D they prepared it? it looked diluted with a bit of water and well mixed

[@inkedoutmiss]

The dung definitely makes it water proof, we have made cob for our house by fermenting horse dung in water for a week or so and then adding clay. It dries very strong and is waterproof too, I’m assuming you could use either cow or horse dung, horse isn’t as smelly as cow.

[@Dan.Parker]

If cows have plenty of pasture to graze and move on, their dung will not smell bad.