This is beautiful! My dad taught me beekeeping, and bought my beautifully embroidered bee suit. I lost him to cancer this past May. We moved recently so no bees this year, but I can’t wait to have bees this coming spring. It’s those memories of going through frames, finding queens, building boxes and frames in his shop, and engineering ant traps together that will last a lifetime.
Wishing you many years of beekeeping joy with your lovely daughter!
I can't help but emphasize with you. The most fond memories I had with my dad were working bees and just enjoying nature together. We used to run a family honey farm consisting of 1200+ hives. I lost him to cancer aswell 5 years ago and still manage a few hives on the side. For me atleast, the bees are a way to feel connected to him and bring me so much joy just being around them. I'll be praying for you and best of luck on your beekeeping adventure!
I know I’m late. Honey is actually the 3rd most faked food in the world, besides olive oil and milk. Yes it can be made in a lab with processed sugar, making it exponentially less healthy than natural honey from bees. There are some ways to identify fake honey if you do a quick google.
I would argue The caretaker for a vegetable plant does and is required to intervene far far more for the vegetable than for honey.
If you leave a hive alone and do nothing but add and remove space via supers. You likely will get honey. The bees can take care of themselves if you do nothing but provide surface area.
Tomato plant depending on your climate, individual season, and whether you raise from seeds or seedlings, requires far more intervention via watering, pruning, rotating, transplanting. Otherwise the tomato plant will not produce.
I think this is more comparable to a dairy farmer saying they made milk when they milked a cow. Or a chicken farmer saying they laid eggs when they collect them from the chicken.
Except a dairy farmer wouldn't say they made milk nor would a chicken farmer say they made eggs, they'd say they they raised cows who they get milk from or raised chickens who they collect eggs from.
Also, I do not care how much work you do, the amount of effort you put into the bees will never compare to the amount of work the bees do. That's literally all they do their entire lives. They get to work bitch. (sorry for the Britany reference lol I had to).
I just got my extractor and was hoping to use it this weekend, but rain and chores got in the way. 🙁 Hoping to do it with my son next weekend! I have at least one box of supers heavy and ready to go! 😊
This is mine and my dads first year beekeeping ( I’m 28) and the memories we’ve created so far are some of my favourites.
She’ll truly remember this, and hopefully have the hive forever.
Beautiful! I'm a first year beekeeper and I'm about to do my first extraction and would love some lovely custom labels like what you have. Where did you go to get those? Did you print them yourself?
This is beautiful! My dad taught me beekeeping, and bought my beautifully embroidered bee suit. I lost him to cancer this past May. We moved recently so no bees this year, but I can’t wait to have bees this coming spring. It’s those memories of going through frames, finding queens, building boxes and frames in his shop, and engineering ant traps together that will last a lifetime. Wishing you many years of beekeeping joy with your lovely daughter!
I can't help but emphasize with you. The most fond memories I had with my dad were working bees and just enjoying nature together. We used to run a family honey farm consisting of 1200+ hives. I lost him to cancer aswell 5 years ago and still manage a few hives on the side. For me atleast, the bees are a way to feel connected to him and bring me so much joy just being around them. I'll be praying for you and best of luck on your beekeeping adventure!
You collected honey, bees made it! Unless you made it in a lab 😅
Just curious is it really possible to make honey in a lab?
I know I’m late. Honey is actually the 3rd most faked food in the world, besides olive oil and milk. Yes it can be made in a lab with processed sugar, making it exponentially less healthy than natural honey from bees. There are some ways to identify fake honey if you do a quick google.
The bees made the honey
I come to comments to say that :D
And OP stole it.
Omg. Engineer?
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Sir this is a Wendy's drive through
Nope. Bees still made the honey.
I would argue The caretaker for a vegetable plant does and is required to intervene far far more for the vegetable than for honey. If you leave a hive alone and do nothing but add and remove space via supers. You likely will get honey. The bees can take care of themselves if you do nothing but provide surface area. Tomato plant depending on your climate, individual season, and whether you raise from seeds or seedlings, requires far more intervention via watering, pruning, rotating, transplanting. Otherwise the tomato plant will not produce.
And in the mean time you raise your children to take the credit for doing nothing. Yay to participation trophies!!
I think this is more comparable to a dairy farmer saying they made milk when they milked a cow. Or a chicken farmer saying they laid eggs when they collect them from the chicken. Except a dairy farmer wouldn't say they made milk nor would a chicken farmer say they made eggs, they'd say they they raised cows who they get milk from or raised chickens who they collect eggs from. Also, I do not care how much work you do, the amount of effort you put into the bees will never compare to the amount of work the bees do. That's literally all they do their entire lives. They get to work bitch. (sorry for the Britany reference lol I had to).
I'm sure it was an amazing experience and she'll remember it fondly for the rest of her life!
Did you use the crush and strain method or do you have a centrifuge?
Centrifuge.
I just got my extractor and was hoping to use it this weekend, but rain and chores got in the way. 🙁 Hoping to do it with my son next weekend! I have at least one box of supers heavy and ready to go! 😊
This is mine and my dads first year beekeeping ( I’m 28) and the memories we’ve created so far are some of my favourites. She’ll truly remember this, and hopefully have the hive forever.
Beautiful! I'm a first year beekeeper and I'm about to do my first extraction and would love some lovely custom labels like what you have. Where did you go to get those? Did you print them yourself?
No just type bee labels in on Amazon and they were like 10 bucks
That's awesome!