The honey house uncut, last day of extraction 09/12/2019

a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog
Caught me in the honey house extracting honey. The summer work force had all gone back to school, so Carrie and I are left to finish up our record harvest crop!

[redwire]

This is a class act! As an engineer I have been inside and seen many food processes but I never imagined one like this. Thank you for sharing!

[Rickimusic]

And I thought our two hives and 20 frames of honey each year was a chore. Love how you two work as one, little wasted motions and no injuries. :)

[Irenestexasgarden]

Thanks so much for posting this. It was an education for me! Carrie is awesome!!

[JakeBeesos]

I like how they both moved around doing all the different jobs

[lydiafife]

This is the first of your videos I watched and it was so straightforward and directed towards the viewer so simply, that is without any fanfare. My husband and I sit together and watch your videos. He’s a marine biologist and specializes in the study of zooplankton so he really “gets” the importance of bees. As do I. Thank you for all you do.

[brettgreen]

Hats off to Carrie. She'll be a leading voice in the bee industry one day. She has it mastered. Ian, I salute the employees you pick and the way you work alongside them. Servant leadership.

[copper]

Thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate it. My 11 yr old son and I really enjoy your videos now that we’ve discovered you! Keep up the great content! 😀👍🏼☮️

[hollow]

Very, very interesting!! And talk about teamwork. It was edifying seeing the process and how you both knew all the tasks and worked like a fine Swiss watch. Thank you for taking the time to make the video.

[munrosewarne]

Love what you are doing Ian and more importantly what you are sharing.

You’ve made intelligent choices in your operations, and I can see how clean and organised your working environment is.

It’s wonderful to see this labour-assisted assembly line. Make sense to me.

All the best from Australia.

[jozsip]

Thank you for all your great videos. They are really educational and I appreciate your hard work. I learned a lot from you, specially equipment stuff and single hive management. I live in Lethbridge Alberta and I wintered 20 hives last year and they all survived. Now I got 7 more and 5 of them just 5-6 frame nucleus hives for spare. I just pulled the last of my honey off today as well and going to finish extracting tomorrow. Thank you again and your ambition makes me to be more ambitious about beekeeping !!!

[GriebenouwBeeFarming]

Thanks for the video Ian, love the videos you are posting. Loving seeing what beekeepers outside of South Africa are doing and see how you keep your bees. Lots of love from South Africa!

[gmamah]

Excellent teamwork! Fascinating and very soothing. I appreciate my toast with honey even more now. Your videos also help with my insomnia. ;) I have to watch them several times.

[robcarter]

You guys are very efficient. And work good together.
Best of luck

[LostMountainRestoration]

My, what a hard worker that young lady is. You are fortunate to have her. Great job, both of you. Thanks!

[creech]

That's amazing to see on such a large scale like that, how each little step is set up. I love the lift arm so nobody is throwing out their back.

[justbecause]

Thank you. Your talking to me. I watch every video you post. Very valuable information. Cheers

[PhillipHall]

Thank you so much for this continuous blog.. So Phillip Hall

[wayne-oo]

Great video ! I could watch this work all day !!

[maryksowers]

Wow, my parents had bees, for 18 years of my life. Lots of hives. In Florida. They had to uncap each frame one at a time, with a hot knife. Two cylinder extractors. Oh the orange blossom honey. My parents would be in awe seeing your set up. I subscribed and will enjoy watching your process.

[MattHolstein]

Having done this by hand its extremely interesting to see a commercial scale operation. Keep up the great vids!