WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.660 in a world brimming with complexity few creatures 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:12.839 embody harmony like the honeybee with tireless 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:17.699 precision she dances from bloom to bloom each 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:22.420 motion guided by millennia upon millennia of 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:28.800 instinct each act in service to the whole and 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.560 then There are the beekeepers, watchful stewards 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:40.500 of this ancient symbiosis. Part agriscientist, 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.460 part poet, they move along their hives with the 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:50.560 efficiency of mow, levy and curly, tending to 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.219 the bees' needs as best they can comprehend, 00:00:54.859 --> 00:00:59.670 and with the infrequency of a waterfall in the 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:05.549 Sahara, sometimes running off flapping and flailing 00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:12.090 like a penguin on a hot sidewalk. This is their 00:01:12.090 --> 00:01:24.069 journey. Welcome, welcome to Be Love Beekeeping 00:01:24.069 --> 00:01:27.189 presented by our great friends over at Man Lake. 00:01:27.469 --> 00:01:31.030 Today we're concluding our discussion with the 00:01:31.030 --> 00:01:34.069 two giggliest beekeepers around, I hope that's 00:01:34.069 --> 00:01:37.609 a word, giggliest beekeepers around, Kim and 00:01:37.609 --> 00:01:40.950 Steph. We will finish up our top 10 list of decisions 00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:44.390 to make before you take the leap into beekeeping, 00:01:44.829 --> 00:01:47.909 plus hear their wild and crazy beekeeping adventure 00:01:47.909 --> 00:01:51.510 that they had while doing a live video over social 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:54.909 media. You won't want to miss the fun, but first 00:01:54.909 --> 00:01:58.409 let's take a minute to go Inside the Hive, this 00:01:58.409 --> 00:02:01.349 feature presented by Primal Bee. Did you know 00:02:01.349 --> 00:02:04.930 that beeswax doesn't come from flowers? Bees 00:02:04.930 --> 00:02:08.270 make it from their own bodies. Young workers, 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:11.889 between about 12 and 18 days old, have glands 00:02:11.889 --> 00:02:14.689 on the underside of their bellies that produce 00:02:14.689 --> 00:02:18.349 tiny clear flakes of wax, each one about the 00:02:18.349 --> 00:02:22.840 size of a pinhead. The bee grabs a flake, chews 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:26.060 it soft with her mandibles, and carefully places 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:29.340 it wherever the colony is building. Thousands 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:32.819 of bees doing this one flake at a time is how 00:02:32.819 --> 00:02:36.740 you get comb. The engineering is absolutely wild. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.680 Honeycomb is made of perfect hexagons. This shape 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:44.340 uses the least wax to create the most storage 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:47.539 space. Mathematicians have been fascinated by 00:02:47.539 --> 00:02:50.870 it for centuries. Here's the expensive part. 00:02:51.229 --> 00:02:54.629 Bees need to eat about six to eight pounds of 00:02:54.629 --> 00:02:58.969 honey to produce one pound of wax. So when you 00:02:58.969 --> 00:03:01.930 see fresh white comb or wax cappings in a hive, 00:03:02.349 --> 00:03:05.729 you're looking at a serious investment. That's 00:03:05.729 --> 00:03:09.169 why experienced beekeepers treat drawn comb like 00:03:09.169 --> 00:03:13.430 gold. It's not just wax. It's thousands of flower 00:03:13.430 --> 00:03:16.349 visits converted to nectar, converted to honey, 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:21.550 converted to wax. one tiny flake at a time. Next 00:03:21.550 --> 00:03:24.310 time on Inside the Hive, we'll discover how bees 00:03:24.310 --> 00:03:27.030 run their own air conditioning system in the 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:31.150 summer heat. Now, let's get back to Kim and Steph. 00:03:36.169 --> 00:03:38.289 Okay, as long as we're on kind of the mindset 00:03:38.289 --> 00:03:42.789 thing, let's discuss a little bit about how do 00:03:42.789 --> 00:03:46.090 you feel about bees? Is there a fear going into 00:03:46.090 --> 00:03:49.520 this? Are you sure you're not allergic to bee 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.580 venom for starters? What else on that line should 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:57.240 people think about? I would say my first year, 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:02.479 I did not have any type of fear. I wasn't stung. 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:05.819 I had a beautiful experience, which can be good 00:04:05.819 --> 00:04:10.199 and bad. because the next year will be much different, 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:13.680 can be very different. And unfortunately, you 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.399 don't know your tolerance to stings until it 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:20.399 happens. So again, wearing proper PPE is very 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.759 important. Getting checked out if you feel if 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.379 you've gotten stung and you feel you've had a 00:04:26.379 --> 00:04:28.240 certain reaction, you want to go get checked 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.180 out immediately. What else? I think you should 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:33.399 be honest with yourself about how much time you're 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.790 willing to put into it. I think that's important 00:04:36.790 --> 00:04:39.730 that you to know how much time are you willing 00:04:39.730 --> 00:04:42.329 to put into this for your bees and for yourself 00:04:42.329 --> 00:04:46.290 because it is time consuming. Yeah, that's good 00:04:46.290 --> 00:04:49.850 advice. Are you two the type that are just normally 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:52.449 very calm like the first time you were around 00:04:52.449 --> 00:04:54.610 bees? Did you feel very calm or did you feel 00:04:54.610 --> 00:04:58.399 some anxiety? I was definitely anxious. there's 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:00.660 a lot of energy when you're going into your hive 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:02.920 for the first time whether it's nervous energy 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.519 or oh my gosh is this so cool kind of energy 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.360 but i was apprehensive because i i knew like 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.740 this thing could potentially be you know i could 00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:15.439 hurt them they could in turn hurt me so i was 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.060 apprehensive for sure i went into it a little 00:05:18.060 --> 00:05:23.360 more calm Learned kind of what we talked on earlier 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.060 that my mindset has everything to do with how 00:05:26.060 --> 00:05:28.660 my visit in the bee yard is gonna go if I go 00:05:28.660 --> 00:05:31.660 in nervous and anxious I'm not gonna have a good 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:34.740 visit if I go in without love in my heart I'm 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:36.899 not gonna in turn show my bees that same love 00:05:36.899 --> 00:05:40.439 that they they show us so I Just have to take 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.980 a moment even now to this day before I go into 00:05:42.980 --> 00:05:44.980 the bee yard I just take a moment to collect 00:05:44.980 --> 00:05:48.279 myself and say We're going in with the bees. 00:05:48.339 --> 00:05:50.699 We need to be calm. They can pick up on that 00:05:50.699 --> 00:05:53.579 So let's make it a beautiful day and we go in 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:56.420 and we have a great time but always I always 00:05:56.420 --> 00:05:59.180 take that moment to make sure that my mind is 00:05:59.180 --> 00:06:04.560 calm and That's where I'm out with it now Kim, 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.620 how about you? I went into it a little more calm 00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:11.100 a little I wasn't nervous. I just thought it 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:15.339 was amazing, but I have gained a lot of respect 00:06:15.339 --> 00:06:19.220 for bees, and each experience that you have is 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:22.519 going to be different. And when you do get stung, 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:26.819 which will happen, and you just learn to try 00:06:26.819 --> 00:06:29.639 to get through it, the bees are doing what they 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.379 do. And you want to try to be as calm as possible. 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.319 Because if you're calm, it does help, as Steph 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.399 said, your mindset can affect how they react. 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:44.009 And you want to have respect because at the end 00:06:44.009 --> 00:06:46.529 of the day they're still wild creatures that 00:06:46.529 --> 00:06:50.529 you cannot control. So we can talk about how 00:06:50.529 --> 00:06:53.329 they act during the season but you'll get that 00:06:53.329 --> 00:06:55.829 couple weeks in the summer where there's a dearth 00:06:55.829 --> 00:06:57.769 and you've got a whole different kind of bee 00:06:57.769 --> 00:07:00.389 behavior going on and you want to be able to 00:07:00.389 --> 00:07:03.829 recognize that and if you're a backyard beekeeper 00:07:03.829 --> 00:07:06.129 and you and you need to check your your hive 00:07:06.129 --> 00:07:08.430 that week and you open that hive and they're 00:07:08.430 --> 00:07:11.120 just coming at you, they're not having it, then 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.079 you have to respect that and think, you know 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.540 what? I'm just going to close it up and I'm going 00:07:15.540 --> 00:07:17.420 to leave and I'll check a different time. They're 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:19.519 just not, they're just not having it. You don't 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.139 want to force it if, you know, if you can help 00:07:22.139 --> 00:07:25.199 that. I love that. Commercial beekeepers don't 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.579 have that luxury like hobbyists do. And so if 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:32.339 you have the time, it's really nice to be able 00:07:32.339 --> 00:07:35.920 to do that. We forgot to talk about how many 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:38.959 beehives should someone start with a beginner? 00:07:39.540 --> 00:07:41.939 Because the natural tendency is I want to get 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:45.620 one. See how it goes. I'm a big fan of let's 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:49.839 get two. Two is a great place to start with because 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.759 What if something happens to one of them? That's 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.939 always everybody's like fear. And it might, I 00:07:55.939 --> 00:07:58.720 mean, honestly, it could happen, but having to, 00:07:58.980 --> 00:08:02.459 you also learn a lot. You can see what is this 00:08:02.459 --> 00:08:04.800 high doing? What is this high doing? And kind 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.139 of compare them. Also, it's just, I think it's 00:08:08.139 --> 00:08:10.759 so much fun to have two highs. There's just a 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.480 huge learning experience having them. How about 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.579 starting with 10 or 20? Oh, yeah, don't start 00:08:16.579 --> 00:08:19.620 with 10 or 20. That's a way to not want to be 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:23.720 a key. Although we kind of did that because when 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.399 we were at our location in Pennsylvania, we would 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:31.019 take the packages that weren't doing well that 00:08:31.019 --> 00:08:33.950 we didn't sell and we would try to. We would 00:08:33.950 --> 00:08:36.450 just try to help them survive. So we kind of 00:08:36.450 --> 00:08:38.370 took on a little more than we probably should 00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:40.090 have just because we're trying to get the bees 00:08:40.090 --> 00:08:43.110 a fighting chance for sure. But I would recommend 00:08:43.110 --> 00:08:46.409 for most everybody else. I understand that cost 00:08:46.409 --> 00:08:50.789 is definitely something to consider and. You 00:08:50.789 --> 00:08:52.690 want to just start with one because of course, 00:08:52.690 --> 00:08:56.289 it's so expensive But ultimately having at least 00:08:56.289 --> 00:08:58.769 two will help you because you never know if you're 00:08:58.769 --> 00:09:02.169 going to need to take resources From a hive to 00:09:02.169 --> 00:09:05.370 help one that maybe is failing or not doing as 00:09:05.370 --> 00:09:08.929 well. I completely agree Also, if you only had 00:09:08.929 --> 00:09:12.429 one Whatever it does you would think is normal 00:09:12.429 --> 00:09:16.470 That's exactly yeah, and it may not be Mm -hmm 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.659 I started with two and the kind of Langstroth 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:24.580 boxes that I have or had at that time, they had 00:09:24.580 --> 00:09:27.580 the regular entrance in the bottom and they had 00:09:27.580 --> 00:09:31.860 a small entrance at the top also, which is fairly 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:36.120 normal. One of the hives would only use the top 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:38.740 entrance for some reason. So I would have thought 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:40.820 that that was normal if that was the only hive 00:09:40.820 --> 00:09:43.860 that I had. You wouldn't have now. But they were 00:09:43.860 --> 00:09:46.409 just... Yeah, they were just goofy bees and they 00:09:46.409 --> 00:09:49.669 just did that. So we're going to be wrapping 00:09:49.669 --> 00:09:52.190 up here pretty soon. One of the other things 00:09:52.190 --> 00:09:55.009 that I think can go with your why you get into 00:09:55.009 --> 00:09:59.450 beekeeping is also take a good look at what are 00:09:59.450 --> 00:10:02.830 my long -term goals? Do I want to always have 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:05.769 two hives because maybe it'll help my allergies? 00:10:06.250 --> 00:10:08.809 Do I want to get to a point where I'm making 00:10:08.809 --> 00:10:11.659 a little bit of money at it? Do I want to get 00:10:11.659 --> 00:10:15.539 to a point where maybe it's a full -time business? 00:10:16.139 --> 00:10:20.200 Or as you were saying, I want to make some skincare 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.279 products. What advice do you have for people 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.519 to really look ahead and set some goals right 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.480 off the bat? Well, just keep in mind that if 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.940 your bees overwinter and they come through winter 00:10:33.940 --> 00:10:38.200 strong and the queen starts laying, then in spring, 00:10:38.409 --> 00:10:40.370 you're going to want to make what's called a 00:10:40.370 --> 00:10:42.529 split, which obviously we'll have to touch on 00:10:42.529 --> 00:10:46.629 that another time. But essentially you'd be turning 00:10:46.629 --> 00:10:51.070 one colony into two. So right away you'll have 00:10:51.070 --> 00:10:53.509 two. So you want to make sure that you wouldn't 00:10:53.509 --> 00:10:56.029 get ahead of yourself. If you go over winter 00:10:56.029 --> 00:10:59.570 with four hives and that's all you wanted, but 00:10:59.570 --> 00:11:03.049 come spring all those hives did well, you're 00:11:03.049 --> 00:11:06.269 looking at potentially eight hives, which is 00:11:06.269 --> 00:11:10.419 more money. more time, more resources. It could 00:11:10.419 --> 00:11:12.940 be a little bit above what you feel comfortable 00:11:12.940 --> 00:11:15.519 in. You may also live in a place where you just 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.100 don't have space for more than a couple of hives. 00:11:18.860 --> 00:11:22.019 That's true. Like in my example here, I have 00:11:22.019 --> 00:11:24.700 four hives, but I can't have them in my yard. 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.320 So my bee yard is separate from where I'm at. 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:30.200 How did you find that other bee yard? Because 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.330 lots of people might have to do that. So I was 00:11:33.330 --> 00:11:37.330 lucky and we had a family member who has a lot 00:11:37.330 --> 00:11:40.870 of property and a lot of it they don't use. They're 00:11:40.870 --> 00:11:43.870 not utilizing other than just to walk around 00:11:43.870 --> 00:11:47.870 and such. So we were lucky enough to be able 00:11:47.870 --> 00:11:52.509 to put our bees there. So family was our option, 00:11:52.809 --> 00:11:57.519 thankfully. What if you live in a city? Hmm Well, 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.899 I mean again, you'd have to check with your county 00:11:59.899 --> 00:12:02.840 to see but a lot of people I know that if you 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.559 can in your your county you can do rooftop beekeeping 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.740 Which is something I thought of so there's there's 00:12:09.740 --> 00:12:12.879 that or I mean you can I don't know maybe reach 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.860 out to Some other places to see if you could 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:19.460 put your hives on there on their property I know 00:12:19.460 --> 00:12:23.259 some schools in such will allow for that Are 00:12:23.259 --> 00:12:25.759 you planning on expanding your apiary this year? 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.779 Or are you a beginner thinking about jumping 00:12:28.779 --> 00:12:31.799 into beekeeping for the very first time? 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That's all one word at checkout. Again, 00:14:00.169 --> 00:14:03.529 that's primalbee .com slash Be Love and use discount 00:14:03.529 --> 00:14:07.750 code Be Love at checkout. I would definitely 00:14:07.750 --> 00:14:11.049 join a Bee Association if you live in a city. 00:14:11.910 --> 00:14:16.210 because if you end up with your hives doing really 00:14:16.210 --> 00:14:19.809 well and You cannot keep all of those on your 00:14:19.809 --> 00:14:22.509 property Having someone local that could maybe 00:14:22.509 --> 00:14:25.049 take them for you. You could make nukes out of 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:28.309 them You could also use it as an opportunity 00:14:28.309 --> 00:14:31.429 to make some money if that Would be something 00:14:31.429 --> 00:14:35.330 you did more research and looking into All right. 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:37.929 Let's wrap up with a couple of other things and 00:14:37.929 --> 00:14:42.480 that is just in general, things that we've left 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.460 out, such as preparing for potential predators, 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.610 what else should people be thinking about? Prepare 00:14:49.610 --> 00:14:52.029 for having honey. You're going to want to look 00:14:52.029 --> 00:14:54.789 at the containers you're going to want to get. 00:14:55.169 --> 00:14:57.129 Are you going to want to label your honey if 00:14:57.129 --> 00:14:59.850 you get honey? Can you sell your honey where 00:14:59.850 --> 00:15:04.129 you're at? What's behind that for you? So you 00:15:04.129 --> 00:15:05.509 definitely need to look at what you're going 00:15:05.509 --> 00:15:08.129 to do with your honey. How are you going to extract 00:15:08.129 --> 00:15:10.129 it? Are you going to do it by hand? Are you going 00:15:10.129 --> 00:15:13.009 to put it in an extractor? So I think that's 00:15:13.009 --> 00:15:15.250 important. Like you're going to have some product 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:17.350 at some point. What are we going to do with it? 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.000 And of course, you want to look into electric 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:25.460 fencing wherever you may have your bees. I can 00:15:25.460 --> 00:15:29.059 speak from experience that maybe the bees or 00:15:29.059 --> 00:15:31.740 maybe the bear don't find your bees that first 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:33.960 year. Maybe they don't find them the second year, 00:15:33.980 --> 00:15:37.759 but they will find them eventually. And they 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:42.799 will wreak havoc all over the bee yard. And that's 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.480 something that's devastating. for anyone that's 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:47.659 involved. So of course you don't want anything 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:50.659 to happen to your bees, but all that money and 00:15:50.659 --> 00:15:52.419 all that time you may have spent putting your 00:15:52.419 --> 00:15:56.480 equipment together. So that is another expensive 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.340 investment, but one that is extremely important. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.379 And is there anything besides bears we need to 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:04.259 watch out for? Because a lot of people live where 00:16:04.259 --> 00:16:06.799 there's no bears. You can watch out for other 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.519 people. We've had instances where people take 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.860 hides that don't belong to them. You could have 00:16:13.860 --> 00:16:17.220 other predators such as, I said, skunk or raccoon 00:16:17.220 --> 00:16:21.019 come by. Oh, could be mice. Yeah, oh, mice. Mice 00:16:21.019 --> 00:16:23.340 are going to be careful. Get yourself a mouse 00:16:23.340 --> 00:16:26.940 guard in the winter. Yeah. Oh, and the don't 00:16:26.940 --> 00:16:29.659 forget the European hornet. So and the yellow 00:16:29.659 --> 00:16:33.299 jackets for in robbing season, which is another 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:37.580 topic we could probably talk all day. And again, 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.879 if you're in touch with local beekeepers, you'll 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.899 hear about some of that and how to prepare for 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:44.960 those kinds of things because predators aren't 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.759 all big. Some are little and also fly. And some 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.600 are even birds and things like that. Do either 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.940 of you have a fun, wild and crazy story you'd 00:16:55.940 --> 00:16:59.460 like to share with us? Well, we do have quite 00:16:59.460 --> 00:17:04.009 the story. Steph and I go live on Man Lakes TikTok 00:17:04.009 --> 00:17:07.150 every Thursday afternoon. We try to do for 12 00:17:07.150 --> 00:17:12.569 Eastern time. We were told to go live, funny 00:17:12.569 --> 00:17:15.890 enough, during a dearth. And this is when we 00:17:15.890 --> 00:17:20.849 did live hive inspections. And we set the camera 00:17:20.849 --> 00:17:23.589 up, went live. I'm inspecting the bees. They're 00:17:23.589 --> 00:17:26.410 not really appreciating it, but all is well at 00:17:26.410 --> 00:17:29.849 the moment. Steph decided that she wanted to 00:17:29.849 --> 00:17:32.410 try a new veil that she really liked, and she 00:17:32.410 --> 00:17:35.990 wanted to see what it was like. However, it wasn't 00:17:35.990 --> 00:17:39.089 connected to her jacket, and the zipper part, 00:17:39.170 --> 00:17:42.069 I don't think, was pulled up all the way. And 00:17:42.069 --> 00:17:45.670 as I'm inspecting and trying to focus, she is 00:17:45.670 --> 00:17:48.950 getting stung in the head. So she had gotten 00:17:48.950 --> 00:17:53.640 stung once, and you know, let me know. We just 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.400 kept going. But of course, that pheromone had 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.599 been released and she got stung probably eight 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:03.059 more times as I'm trying to go live and the hive 00:18:03.059 --> 00:18:08.339 is open and did not know how to handle that. 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.759 So had to wrap up the live and not and thinking 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.400 back, maybe we should have included that in the 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.359 live stuff is that's a real thing that happens 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:20.460 to beekeepers. I mean, it does. But I didn't 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:22.380 know how to handle it. So I kind of just hit 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:25.740 it and did it and then tended to stuff. I wanted 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:29.119 to make sure she was OK. She was. Yeah. Right. 00:18:29.259 --> 00:18:32.279 And we jumped right back into it. We within like 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.440 15 minutes, I think we are back to her. I had 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.859 her up. We made sure all the stingers were out. 00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:40.420 She didn't have any bad reactions, which was 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:42.980 what we were most concerned about with that many. 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.200 I know it's hot. We're in August T. Pennsylvania. 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:50.140 heat. So that was quite an experience, which 00:18:50.140 --> 00:18:52.819 we do talk about now fondly, but at the time 00:18:52.819 --> 00:18:55.940 was pretty scary. Now we just laugh about it. 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:59.440 Well, I don't know. I do. And if you had left 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:01.200 that in, you would have had a lot more views 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.500 on that video. I know we say that all the time. 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:06.500 How we regret that because we would have got 00:19:06.500 --> 00:19:09.500 so many more views for sure. But I was more concerned 00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:12.019 with her realize she's being a very good friend. 00:19:12.589 --> 00:19:15.450 Well, you guys are brave doing live stuff. This 00:19:15.450 --> 00:19:18.170 podcast is not live. I guess I'm just not as 00:19:18.170 --> 00:19:21.190 brave as you guys. Or I'm not as talented. I 00:19:21.190 --> 00:19:25.049 need editing to fix stuff. No, no, you'd be great. 00:19:25.329 --> 00:19:28.009 Yeah. All right. I'm coming on your live sometime. 00:19:28.390 --> 00:19:31.950 I would love to have you for sure. I hope you 00:19:31.950 --> 00:19:37.369 do. I hope you do too. Be a disaster. Okay. Hey, 00:19:37.470 --> 00:19:40.140 any other last thoughts? I do want to say thank 00:19:40.140 --> 00:19:43.759 you so much for having us. This has been so fantastic. 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.660 Never thought I'd be on a HUD cast. So this has 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:49.819 been just made my made my year actually. Thank 00:19:49.819 --> 00:19:53.240 you. This was a lot of fun. I was a little nervous 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.779 going into it, but you are so sweet and just 00:19:56.779 --> 00:19:59.240 getting us to talk. We are talking about what 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.259 we love, which is actually beginning beekeeper. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.839 We love talking. We have a lot of knowledge in 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:08.920 beginning bee keepings and a lot of people we 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.700 talk to over the phone are calling for the first 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:14.400 time asking questions about how do I get bees 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:17.779 and what do I need to do. So we just we love 00:20:17.779 --> 00:20:20.799 to talk to them and let them know that have fun 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:24.000 with it first and foremost. Yes, it can be scary. 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:27.140 You can get some anxiety with it. It costs a 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:31.440 lot. But ultimately, we just want the backyard 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.779 beekeeper to have fun as we have fun. Absolutely. 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:37.519 All right Kim and Steph, thank you so much for 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.880 your time. It is fun. Sometimes we take beekeeping 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.359 too seriously. It's fun, it's about the love, 00:20:45.380 --> 00:20:48.339 and one other thing that I was going to throw 00:20:48.339 --> 00:20:52.579 out for advice is get the family involved. This 00:20:52.579 --> 00:20:56.220 doesn't have to just be you. It can be the spouse, 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.539 the kids, the grandkids, the whoever. It's fun 00:20:59.539 --> 00:21:01.819 to get other people together doing this with 00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:05.000 you. Absolutely. Find a beekeeping buddy for 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.299 sure. All right, take care you two. Thank you 00:21:08.299 --> 00:21:14.980 so much. Thanks again for joining us on Bee Love 00:21:14.980 --> 00:21:17.420 Beekeeping presented by our great friends over 00:21:17.420 --> 00:21:19.680 at Man Lake. Hey, and don't forget to order your 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.789 bees. And a shout out to Vita B Health for their 00:21:22.789 --> 00:21:25.789 support. 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