Swarm to Hive Part 4: Gary's Bees

In this video we are installing the swarm that we caught near John's farm at his friend, Gary's, house. This swarm is going into a new hive box that we built earlier this Spring and had painted with scenes from John's farm. We'll keep the bees up here on the mountain for a couple of weeks before moving them to their new home on John's farm. This was a really big swarm with lots of bees, lots of brood and lots of resources.
We are practicing natural beekeeping methods using Layens horizontal hives that we built ourselves. To get a copy of the plans that we downloaded for free and used to build our swarm boxes, frames, horizontal hives and insulated horizontal hives, click here: horizontalhive...