Mid May At Blue Ridge Honey Co.

When I was a child I use to wake up on Saturdays mornings to watch my favorite tv shows on ABC. Now I wake up on Sunday mornings to my favorite YouTube video 🤝

Good morning Bob! Thx for the video. It’s great to listen to commercial beekeepers talk. Damn bears. It’s been a mild winter up here and even I have bear pressure on the prairie in my valleys being pushed out from the parks

Celina has become very savvy in the bee yard

We always enjoy your Sunday videos, they are very relevant to our small operation in Blairsville. We use your shop for most of our beekeeping needs, thank you. G's Bees Apiary

Here in N Texas we have different types of bear 🐻. They have 2 legs and when they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs they turn over the hives. Bob I understand that you have managed 700 hives by yourself in the past years. I do have questions about your strategy/approach besides experience. In this video I noticed you use the duble screen which I never thought of using. Glad you didn’t have to much trouble with that yard. Thanks 🙏 for sharing. God bless you and your crew.

We get a distinct orange pollen from Asparagus here in the Lowcountry (Late June). The Clemson Ag. farm grows a bunch. Dandelions will give the bees a nice orange pollen as well down here. Sorry to see you lost a few in Mountain City. I enjoyed working there with both of you.

I'm in NE TN and I don't remember seeing so much blooming privet as is happening right now here! The honey locust too...

Good Sunday morning Bob! Sorry yall having a tough time with bears. Coming to WNC in June and hoping to ride your way for a visit with my son. Haven't been there in awhile. Have a great day!

Hi sir Bob I did 10 get queen and 7 came back 👌 OK

Your sign at the end made me laugh! Thanks for sharing

Fortunately we don't have bears in our area. We are finally getting a bit of a nectar flow. Now to continue and praying for rain. Thank You for another fun and informative video!

Great video, very informative as always 👍🇺🇸

Based on my calculations, I'm gonna have to work the rest of my life too lol. The times and the cost of living is just crazy. I really need to pull honey off my hives so I can make room, but I been dealing with diverticulitis and haven't been able to. Don't see mine working the honeysuckle as much either as long as there is other sources available, I'm sure it's more work cause their tongues aren't long enough. Thanks for the videos, I look forward to them when I get up Sunday mornings.

I love that quotation at the end Bob. I suspect that it's true for just about all Beekeepers. 😢

Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge! 👍

O nice. I wrote to someone that I make single brood frame nucks with queen cell on the last flow before summer and let them grow like that.. can't remember was it Kamon or Nathan or... then I thought he might think l'm stupid or something. Now I feel much better.. when Bob Binnie has it on video it can't be wrong. It's good to see it on YouTube

As always, good info and a good break on Sunday with your videos. Sorry about the bear. We don't have bears thank goodness.

I'm are about a week or two out from our Blackberry flow here in SW WA. Thanks much Bob I always enjoy your videos, Blessed Days, buddy...

I planted white clover many years ago (ph 5.7) here in Texas and every year there was less of it until finally none was left in about 7 years. It doesn’t like our heat and drought. It only grew under my big pecans where it was shaded.

Hi Bob. I few weeks ago I told you how my colonies just depopulated. I let them alone incase queens were being superseded because of what happened. I went in the hives today and spent a few hours looking through them to see what was going on. All the colonies had the original queens (I mark them). The numbers were small in all colonies and yet were trying to re-populate with a lot of brood. I spoke to the farmer about it and we discussed what was used and with the wet weather he couldn't use his usual rotation of products on the crops. I later went to my second apiary about two miles away and the same thing happened there. The queens are there and the colonies were depopulated. Strange. When I noticed the lower number of bees a few weeks ago I looked for piles of bees in front of the hives. There wasn't one bee on the landing board or in the grass in front of the hives. I'm thinking that maybe the county or state did some kind of a spray program and the bees got caught in the middle of it all. Any thoughts on your part? Ideas of might have happened? Great video by the way.