Gather Beekeeping Tools and Supplies

hey this is Josh Donnie rich farmer I want to talk to you a little bit about what we're doing today in the Beehive and the supplies that we need when we start getting into our bees it's fall it's October the 1st and I've got some birds making noise up here I've got the goats eating little food pigs are behind you and I'm gonna show you what you need to get into your beehive first thing you need to know in the fall we're looking to make sure that our bees have enough pollen stored and enough honey to last through the winter so if they don't we'll probably feed them a little bit of sugar water I don't use high fructose corn syrup a lot of beekeepers do it's cheap it's crap and I don't use it so we use sugar we mix sugar and water we use about two thirds of a gallon jar of sugar and we mix it with warm water shake it and pour it into our hive top feeders which you'll see me install in a few minutes so here are the things that we're gonna use in our beehive when we go in we got a smoker neill lighter this goes inside the smoker it sits in the bottom right here we also need a hive tool and I used to smoke my bees with all sorts of things leaves and stuff like that but I find the easiest and best thing is a burlap sack you can find burlap sacks at most of your like farm supply stores if you can't find them there then just ask them about it and you most likely can order it if they can't get them then you need a new farm store that's not a farm store that's a city boy store and that's not where we go to get our farm stuff burlap so we got the beehives here behind us time to change hats put the bee suit on and get into these hives and we'll give you a little tour of what's going on in the Beehive here in the fall Stoney Ridge farm Stoney Ridge farmer we're all suited up with our bee equipment on and I'm gonna show you how to light your smoker so we've got our