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RE: Natural Beekeeping | Intro to Catching Wild Swarms (Vlog)
Amazing. How will you harvest? We had a swarm bless our place last year and our friend is a beekeeper so he gave us a box and comes and checks on them for us, and we get a percentage of the honey. It's lovely.. he comes around, smokes a joint, chats about bees, and off he goes.
We're both super stoked and have been watching the box on our land everyday. It brought me tears of joy this morning seeing many foragers/scouts checking it out. Sounds like a good friend to have ;). When we have attracted a swarm, we will move the box to our apiary, eventually transferring the frames into a 14 or 17 frame hive box. The harvest will be frame by frame and we will use a centrifuge (a European made Layens extractor), but that's still a while off.