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Sourcing and Transporting Beneficial Organism Packages

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The video begins with the presenter preparing to work with existing beehives. He then transitions to showing a visit to 'Triad Bee Supply' in Trinity, North Carolina, where he collects a new package of honeybees. He highlights that this supply store, run by his friend John, provides packaged bees (3lb Italian bees from Georgia) and beekeeping equipment. The presenter explains that this year they are doing two bee package pickups. On the drive home, he advises carefully brushing off any loose bees from the packages before placing them inside the car to prevent bees from flying around and causing accidents. This stage is analogous to sourcing quality compost and ensuring its safe transport to the garden beds for application.

Goal: This step involves acquiring new beneficial organism packages (honeybees) from a specialized supplier and safely transporting them to the garden site, taking precautions to prevent escape or disruption during transit.

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folks today on the Stony Ridge Farm Channel we're going to show you a lot of cool stuff about keeping [Music] bees so we're about to pull in Triad B Supply that's in Trinity North Carolina Triad be supply.com this is not an advertisement for those guys but my buddy John runs this he is a standup guy he just a great person and I don't mind giving him some exposure on the channel plus we need some honeybees we lost all of our beehives last year due to me not checking on the bees like I should have so let's pull on in here to try out be Supply and check out what our new package of bees looks like they come from Georgia and they were just trucked in here today you can also buy honeybees and buy beekeeping equipment from Triad be supply.com talk to John he's a cool dude yeah who is this this is a new person I haven't seing she's on the phone customer support this is John this is Phoebe all right [Music] hey all right guys I told you this is John from Triad B Supply John good to have you here man thank you so much for ordering my bees for me try ATB supply.com right that's right is there a phone number people need to know 336 475 5137 all right good deal now you do packages of bees three times a year is that right well this year two times two times this year okay and the bee industry's kind of been down a little bit last year you said it was down a little bit nobody's scared there's no kind of craziness going on in the world so the bee industry kind of slowed down but we're picking back up up this year so we've got an increase now let me tell you a funny story the first time I came out here was like 15 years ago to get my first bees and I had a big old beard I took 20 minutes 30 minutes off from the hospital something like that ran down here to get my bees and one got me right in the mouth then I went back to take care of my patient said the hot this right here it was pretty funny guys check out John's website tribe supply.com I'll post a link down the video description we're going to get a package of bees this is what a 3 lb package three lb they come from Georgia yep back uh Gardener spell B from Bley okay got you they're the largest uh Queen breeder in the Southeast nice and these are Italians they're Italians nice let's get them load them up so Pro tip I've got the honeybees back here in the back floorboard this is their package we'll see a little bit more of that soon um we'll talk a little bit about what's in the package there are queen bees inside the…

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