The Best Way to Set Up a Bee Hive

The FruitGuys Farm Steward program donated four hives and 48,000 bees to Torrey Olsen's small organic farm in Sebastapol, California. Learn most everything you need to know about how to set up a bee hive the best and simplest way. You can view this video in higher res on our site at: http://www.fruitguys.com/honeybees.shtml

For bee questions, try contacting Doug at BeeKind: www.beekind.com. He is full of knowledge, friendly and helpful!

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[Xiolar0eu]

Do you need permissions of the authorities to set up a beehive? I love bees, they are peaceful even if you are close to them.

[fruitguys]

@Xiolar0eu Doug of BeeKind says: "Restrictions vary from city to city. From none in ag areas to totally prohibited in big cities. Enforcement is complaint driven. They might ask you to move the bees. Depends how scared people are of honeybees."

Hope this helps!

The FruitGuys

[armanflint]

This is one of the cleanest bee installations I have seen on the net... It makes great sense for the bottom screen and other ventilation/installation bits. In other videos people are banging the shipping box around to get the bees out of the container. Placing it in the hive makes more sense and is probably less stressful on the bees.

Kudos, you rock! 5*

[ScopedOUT2]

how much honey can 8 frames of honey in a ten frame box produce each month?

[501177kd]

I love your gentle way and confident teaching manor! Too bad the video clarity was fuzzy.

[Twostones00]

cool.

[TheBeeman410]

@purple,

You keep feeding until they have atleast half (6-7 frames) drawn out with comb. At that point you can stop feeding and add a super.

[TheBeeman410]

Great video!

I setup my hives pretty much the same way except I just sit the queen cage on top of the package...

[arthursausage]

One of the better videos. :)

[arbonac]

That was a very good video. Thanks.

[xXpurplenurple007Xx]

So do we need to feed the bees after the syrup runs out or will they get there own nector/honey?

[Eduitorg]

@armanflint I agree... I love the fact he just puts them in the box and doesnt bash them out! Which seems a bit traumatic to me :) I am in Japan and interested in setting up a hive... there is a lot of Soba that grows around me and looking for mentorship if anyone know JP bee keepers that speak english Id love an intro... me@mtrout.com

[todddoom]

I came home from work today to find out about a million honey bees swarmed and are staying under 1 of our back porch chairs. There are honey bees in a tree very near our house. I am going to try and find some drawers to get the bees to move to tomorrow. We love the bees anybody that has some advice, advice will be welcome. Once it is daylight again we will have photos. Right now, a million bees on our back porch.