Mint is one of those plants, very prolific and goes unnoticed until the whole neighborhood is like "huh... i guess there's a bunch of mint around here..." mint basil and rosemary, amazing herbs for your garden, bees, and kitchen
I used to get honey produced by hives based next to lavender field, It was wonderfully floral and fragrant. I also recall a story where bees produced blue honey due to a nearby M and M plant. Perhaps you have mint not too far away.
I have heard that honey made from Oleander, I think, is toxic. Oleander is toxic, and I don't know if toxic flowers = toxic honey all of the time, but I would advise caution 😥
That's what Joe Rogan said about a blue berry bear...they claim a bear that eats only blue berries I the best meat ever and that the fat is literally blue because of it.
@@glycerosfournaris2512That was probably meant as a joke, but many people might not know about this: The bees have seperate "containers" for digestion and transportation. They chew a lot on the nectar for it to become honey, but it has never been vomit in the process as they never started to digest it.
If your hive is close to peppermint plants or lavender, basil whatever they pollinate from it and your honey tastes like it. Bee farms actually move bees to areas where lavender or clover is to flavor the honey. My hive is nearby my hot peppers and my honey tastes like a bit of hot peppers. I also feed my chickens hot peppers and my eggs have a pepper background note to them ❤
The capsaicin molecule which gives chile its heat does not fit the receptors on birds taste buds and their stomachs do not digest pepper seeds. They get all the nutrition and spread the seeds about, with free fertilizer. Elephants are highly sensitive to capsaicin, and detest it. Farmers have learned to plant a few rows of habaneros around their fields to keep the elephants from eating their other crops. Then they harvest the chiles and make hot sauce which they also sell.
I bought a chunk of honeycomb because my girlfriend wanted to try it What flowers taste like smoke? Biting into the honeycomb, it was the smokiest chewing gum I ever had. I don't think liquid smoke could compete with that, nor wood grills I have never had anything taste as purely of smoke as that honeycomb
@@zachm241bees can be influenced by a lot of things, a pack of skittles can actually make them multicolored, which has happened. Maybe something else occurred?
Dude I love raw honeycomb. I’m neighbors with some people who are starting up a honey business and while touring their home I got to go home with some fresh honeycomb that I harvested from their hives and I ate it within like 3 minutes of getting home. Self control left the building after the first bite
@@beyondbackwater4933 so how was the kenyans doing it before the canadian person you talking about? and why named it kenyan when he got it from canada as you claim !
I bought a honeycomb like that from the grocery store and i dont know if i got a bad one because i took a bite and it tasted like crunchy chemicals mixed with honey. 😢
@@MakeSureYouCleanUp that's my fear with buying honeycomb honey. It looks so good to bite into but if the honey quality isn't good or isn't to my taste...
@@Slyj that’s sooooo funny and original!🤦♂️ “Rent free!” That was hilarious 5 years ago when it had already been said for the ten millionth time. What’s next, are you going to hit me with a “whoop there it is?”🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@louskunt9798 that’s sooooo funny and original!🤦♂ “Xi JinPeng!” That was hilarious 5 years ago when it had already been said for the ten millionth time. What’s next, are you going to hit me with a “im a yt cracker?”🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
My granny kept bees in her garden in Ireland and biting straight into the honeycomb is one of my happiest childhood memories. There is nothing like it 😊🐝 ❤
My friends grandparents kept bees and had multiple fruit trees growing on their property You could tell when the honey was harvested by how it tasted You could taste apples, raspberries, cherries, and sometimes wildflowers and roses He insisted that the one year they kept a garlic patch, the honey legitimately tasted like honey/garlic
Tip from a fellow beekeeper: look into making or DIYing a solar wax melter. It's way easier to set it out and let the sun do the work than what I did when I first processed wax -- fuck around with a crock pot and a double boiler for a few hours and get beeswax all over my kitchen. Congrats on the healthy hives!
Bees can be flower loyal which is how you can have flavor profiles of specific trees and flowers. Some personal favorites of mine are Meadowfoam, blackberry, flax flower, and Italian chestnut honey.
The honey will often taste of the pollen that the bees gathered to make it. You can get some interesting flavours by putting certain crops/plants near your hives. :3
@@Joseph-lj4spyes it's a real thing. There's a beekeeper at my local farmers market that sells different types of honey. Blackberry, orange and peach are my favorites! Very fruity and sweet taste.
We are beekeepers too and we are always surprised how different the honey is every season! This year, it has a real citrus flavor and we love it! Very light and lemony! Last year was more dark and molasses-like. We haven’t moved at all! Just something different they found, I guess! Peppermint honey sounds amazing!
There is a huge field of chamomile down the road from me. One of my neighbors has a beehive and it is so prevalent throughout the honey. Just beautiful. A few towns away from me there's a greenhouse where they have bees that only have access to certain parts of their garden. They have almost every flower you can think of in honey form. Bees are so amazing
Honey has a tendency to take on some flavor from whatever flowers were used to make it. If the bees find mint flowers, you get minty honey. Lavender will impart that flavor and possibly some of the calming effect. It's certainly a nice way to naturally flavor and impart even more benefits to honey!
Sonetimes I just... can't deal with all your abundance. I feel like sh*t looking at how wonderful your lives must be and how much you share with your community. I feel really lost.
It's also the classic tip "everything in moderation". When you choose to rely on your less abundant, homegrown (or locally-sourced) foods for eating, you eat less and meet the simplest fact of weight loss which is burning more calories than what you consume. Of course, there's still the possible downside that you may not get the full range of calories, nutrients, and minerals if you rely on a food source that is not (yet) sufficient. And then there's exercise... which is a wasps nest I don't care to talk about.
Yeah the bees are probably feeding on mint somewhere. They usually flavor honey professionally by planting numerous types of pollinating flowers that the bees take in. This changes the flavor of the honey. Nonetheless, this looks so tasty.
We have hives too and peppermint grows like crazy and flowers cute purple flowers-which we also have and ive noticed all types of bees love it, even bumblers and native bees.
Love the content! I’d suspect your have a lot of mint growing in the area. I love raw honeycomb. Such a great treat. Freeze small squares of it and they’re like little honey drops
I tried honey from a hive in my hometown and it blew my mind. It tasted like how the air smelled when the wildflowers would bloom. It tasted like childhood. It was the first time I had non store bought honey. I would every so often just eat a spoonful of it for a boost of serotonin.
Ya your honey will always take on different flavors based on what kind of flowers they have access to. I love buying amen bee products because they set their bees up in orchards and fields will specific flowers such as orange blossom, sage, olallieberry, avocado (my favorite because it has almost this spicy flavor to it…) and a few others. Honey is amazing in so many ways!!!!
There must be mint plants somewhere in the vicinity, the nectar and pollen will lend flavor, and sometimes color too. My neighbors raise bees, and we have about two acres together. In the spring, our yards are carpeted with blue Siberian Squills. They harvest that honey shortly after the flowers are done blooming, and it has a delicate, sweet floral taste, with blue honey, and bluish gold wax. Beautiful and Delicious! 🐝🍯🐝
As said by a ton of other people, you’ll grab flavors from any flowers growing near by that they pollinate. That being said, you should try planting some flowers close by that you like so you can get those flavors!!
I've had friends who keep bees in multiple locations near different herb crops tell me that lavender vs. mint vs. other herbs have hives that produce some honey with different subtle undertones. I'd gotten to try a few. It does seem that whatever volatile oils do this degrade fairly quickly given honey's long shelf life.
I'm jelly. Pooh bite, happy clean-up crew, boatloads of honeycomb, all while being covered in honey and amazing wax products! Yes amazing Happy and healthy adventures!
Honey tastes different based on the available wildlife they harvest from. They must have gotten some tasty blooms from a peppermint or eucalyptus plant (eucalyptus honey can come across as minty in certain amounts)
Oh wow, your apiary, bees, and resulting abundance are incredible. And I loved how you became Winnie the Poo. Childlike exuberance spreading all around, ending with the canine cleanup crew. ❤😂
Hand sewing, working with leather, linen, wood, bone, heck just for camping (sealing seams) We always have a chunk of beeswax around. We still use it for topping jam jars. You likely have a LOT of mint blooming nearby. Go check it out and harvest some of that, too!!! I do love the chewiness of the comb honey. You have an adorable cleaning assistant.
I would think that the peppery medicinal taste comes from wildflowers and honeydew. My godfather is a hobbyist beekeper and his honey is realy dark and similar to your description.
Sticky is my absolute least favorite feeling in the world so this stressed me out but at the same time, I would love to go ham on a honeycomb. I'm so conflicted 😅
Wow, u guys even keep bees!! That's hella cool! And I love that u appreciate what you do so much that u refer to it as, "dealing with abundance". I respect that. Awesome Work!! Be Well 🙂
What a blessing! Everything about this is beautiful! I'm so grateful for you and your family to have this honey and these healthy bees and hives! That is so lovely!
Yup, a middle school teacher of mine was a bee farmer with her husband and they had a great business producing honeys of different flavors. She taught us that whatever is in bloom like for ex. grapefruits, mint, avocados, will transfer its flavor and color into the honey. We tried each, the honey made from the nectar of grapefruit blooms were very citrusy, the honey from mint blooms was so strong in mint, and the honey from avocado blooms was very dark in color and more bitter in flavor. Delicious!
Yes. The peppermint was something those little guys were feeding on for a while. True untouched honey will ALWAYS taste like the wildflowers they’re feeding on 😊 anytime my family leaves for Mexico I make sure to get some from an abuelas land…WILD HONEY IS THE BEST!!!
I have tried many different honeys that have one plant dominating, and the most amazing to my taste buds was a thyme honey. It had a texture like silk velvet and the least overtly sweet flavour, that clover and borage honeys tend to exhibit. It really was quite delightful and a flavour I will never forget.
There's so many plants that produce a peppermint aroma, it would be hard to pinpoint which one, but your honey will usually mimic the aroma and even the physical effects of whatever plant is being planted the most and is in bloom when the nectar for the honey was being collected. So keep track of what's growing around their hive and range to learn the taste of the different wild plants and crops flowers. Hope that helps 😊
very true. the sorce of the pollen can change the flavor of the honey. flowers, fruit trees, and herbs all play a major part in how the honey can taste.
The flavor of the honey is based on what the bees collected the pollen from!! Some beekeepers even put their beehives in fields of specific kinds of plants to help cultivate specific flavors of honey. So if your honey tastes like peppermint, check and see if there is peppermint nearby. That is probably where they got the pollen. If you don’t want the peppermint flavor again next harvest, try investing in some more neutral flavored plants that are full of pollen and plant them nearby, or remove the nearby peppermint. (My personal favorite is Clover honey. 😋)
I've had nothing but failure when it comes to beekeeping. The last four years in a row and not one hive has lived through the winter. I didn't do a hive this year because we bought a house with 5 acres and felt I would try again next spring. This makes me feel a little less discouraged.😅😅😅 Motivated to try again.
Depending on elevation the bees could be pulling mountain mint (I think regular mint produces nectar too) Also if you feed the bees peppermint candies (some colder climate bee keepers do) they would render that down into feed and you could have some of that left over in the comb. It could be a lot of things honestly haha
This was so satisfying to watch. I would love to my own bees friends! I would plant them a delicious flower garden for them to live and work in.❤❤❤🐝🐝🐝🌹🌻🌷
Peppermint must've been in bloom when the bees filled that area of the comb. Happy clean up crew. Enjoy!
Mint is one of those plants, very prolific and goes unnoticed until the whole neighborhood is like "huh... i guess there's a bunch of mint around here..."
mint basil and rosemary, amazing herbs for your garden, bees, and kitchen
very possible. Some bee keeper friends of mine once had Fennel/Willow honey that tasted like licorice. It also helped with headaches.
My thought too.
Yep.
@@tjsMAR😍 wow!
I used to get honey produced by hives based next to lavender field, It was wonderfully floral and fragrant. I also recall a story where bees produced blue honey due to a nearby M and M plant. Perhaps you have mint not too far away.
That's what I was thinking, too. They either have it in the garden or somewhere wild on their property. Lol. It looked really good, though. ❤
I have heard that honey made from Oleander, I think, is toxic. Oleander is toxic, and I don't know if toxic flowers = toxic honey all of the time, but I would advise caution 😥
This is true! *you are what you eat😄* ❤
@@AbigailChildOfGodsomething to look into for sure
A bear that has been eating only berries will have purple fat and the meat is SO good!
Honey is literally a product that proves “you are what you eat”
Well honey is vomit sooooo....
But I get what you mean.
That's what Joe Rogan said about a blue berry bear...they claim a bear that eats only blue berries I the best meat ever and that the fat is literally blue because of it.
@@glycerosfournaris2512That was probably meant as a joke, but many people might not know about this: The bees have seperate "containers" for digestion and transportation. They chew a lot on the nectar for it to become honey, but it has never been vomit in the process as they never started to digest it.
@Comment0815 They even vomit honey.
Also propolis is bee shite.
Nothing wrong with it.
If your hive is close to peppermint plants or lavender, basil whatever they pollinate from it and your honey tastes like it. Bee farms actually move bees to areas where lavender or clover is to flavor the honey. My hive is nearby my hot peppers and my honey tastes like a bit of hot peppers. I also feed my chickens hot peppers and my eggs have a pepper background note to them ❤
Your chickens eat hot peppers?! 🌶 I love it! ❤😂
@@TheEMC99birds are actually inmune to spiciness, to them it probably tastes likr bell peppers lmao
The capsaicin molecule which gives chile its heat does not fit the receptors on birds taste buds and their stomachs do not digest pepper seeds. They get all the nutrition and spread the seeds about, with free fertilizer. Elephants are highly sensitive to capsaicin, and detest it. Farmers have learned to plant a few rows of habaneros around their fields to keep the elephants from eating their other crops. Then they harvest the chiles and make hot sauce which they also sell.
Honey will always pick up flavor from the source pollen. Lavendar and citrus are my favorites.
I bought a chunk of honeycomb because my girlfriend wanted to try it
What flowers taste like smoke?
Biting into the honeycomb, it was the smokiest chewing gum I ever had. I don't think liquid smoke could compete with that, nor wood grills
I have never had anything taste as purely of smoke as that honeycomb
@@zachm241bees can be influenced by a lot of things, a pack of skittles can actually make them multicolored, which has happened.
Maybe something else occurred?
@@zachm241sounds like you got a mouthful of bee smoker soot
@@zachm241they go hard on smoking the bees lol
Mustard and rhododendron honey are both amazing
Dude I love raw honeycomb. I’m neighbors with some people who are starting up a honey business and while touring their home I got to go home with some fresh honeycomb that I harvested from their hives and I ate it within like 3 minutes of getting home. Self control left the building after the first bite
@8thaccount321 yup. Only beeswax is completely edible. It’s basically pollen that’s been chemically turned into fat
@8thaccount321 it tastes like sweeter honey but there like paper in it, idk why people like honey with the wax so much
@8thaccount321 not really. It has its own neat flavor. And it dissolves in your mouth because it’s organic matter
@8thaccount321its very chewy and sweet
woah ur lucky, man!
how sweet on a scale of 1 to 10 is raw honeycomb (10 being unbearably sweet)?
As a Kenyan, I am very proud to see the inspiration
Me too,, feeling proud
Loved the mention of my homeland. Land of honey too
Lol Canadian men invented it and took it to Kenya to use.
@@beyondbackwater4933 so how was the kenyans doing it before the canadian person you talking about? and why named it kenyan when he got it from canada as you claim !
@mohamedsalim436 it's not a disputed fact that it was developed by Canadians and used for projects in Kenya.
"time to deal with some abundance" I love this sentence so much, it speaks to my soul. And eating that raw honey comb is still a dream for me 💓
This! ❤❤❤
I can't tell you how jealous I was of that Winnie bite. 😂
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For real. WHEN IS IT MY TURN
One of my aunties had bees. This was a treat every year they were harvested.
I bought a honeycomb like that from the grocery store and i dont know if i got a bad one because i took a bite and it tasted like crunchy chemicals mixed with honey. 😢
@@MakeSureYouCleanUp that's my fear with buying honeycomb honey. It looks so good to bite into but if the honey quality isn't good or isn't to my taste...
Winnie-the-Pooh style 😅🤣😂 💛
Xi JinPeng😂😂🤣✌️
@@louskunt9798chinese living rent free in your head. You didn't even get the name right LOL
@@Slyj that’s sooooo funny and original!🤦♂️ “Rent free!” That was hilarious 5 years ago when it had already been said for the ten millionth time. What’s next, are you going to hit me with a “whoop there it is?”🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@louskunt9798 that’s sooooo funny and original!🤦♂ “Xi JinPeng!” That was hilarious 5 years ago when it had already been said for the ten millionth time. What’s next, are you going to hit me with a “im a yt cracker?”🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
@@Slyj The more xi get mad, the more this meme gonna exist 😂 stay mad
Our dog, and now kittens, will wake up from a dead sleep and come running when any of us holler "clean up crew!" They know the assignment 😂
My granny kept bees in her garden in Ireland and biting straight into the honeycomb is one of my happiest childhood memories. There is nothing like it 😊🐝 ❤
I thought that said your granny kept beers. ❤ I thought you'd enjoy a swig and some honeycomb together. 😂
My friends grandparents kept bees and had multiple fruit trees growing on their property
You could tell when the honey was harvested by how it tasted
You could taste apples, raspberries, cherries, and sometimes wildflowers and roses
He insisted that the one year they kept a garlic patch, the honey legitimately tasted like honey/garlic
I infuse honey with garlic and chili peppers for hot garlic honey and it's amazing.
@@thirtythreeeyes8624Honey and chilli is always a great combo
mmmm yummy. I love bees.
omg garlic-honey could be such a cool ingredient for soy sauce-based sauces
Tip from a fellow beekeeper: look into making or DIYing a solar wax melter. It's way easier to set it out and let the sun do the work than what I did when I first processed wax -- fuck around with a crock pot and a double boiler for a few hours and get beeswax all over my kitchen. Congrats on the healthy hives!
nectar from linden/basswood trees produces a minty or wintergreen flavored honey, so you must’ve collected this when they were in bloom!
I think that’s what it was! We have a lot of Basswood around us
I have the same here, and I like to keep that honey too use in tea❤
Bees can be flower loyal which is how you can have flavor profiles of specific trees and flowers. Some personal favorites of mine are Meadowfoam, blackberry, flax flower, and Italian chestnut honey.
yea its always such a treat, i really love the taste and thicker viscosity of plum honey 🍯
Meadowfoam honey tastes like smores with a hint of vanilla to me.
The honey will often taste of the pollen that the bees gathered to make it. You can get some interesting flavours by putting certain crops/plants near your hives. :3
Thank you for the infooo
Wait a minute this is a real thing? Lol I just thought that was Stardew Valley
@@Joseph-lj4spyes it's a real thing. There's a beekeeper at my local farmers market that sells different types of honey. Blackberry, orange and peach are my favorites! Very fruity and sweet taste.
Sage is a personal favorite of mine.
Most likely there is peeper mint plans near your hive and so they collected from them
Gosh darn peeper mint plans….. you wouldn’t have meant peppermint plants would have you???🤔🙄
@@gemnicherry2670 yeah a mix of auto correct and dislexia messed that up
man, let me guess. those peeper mints swim around in the water and have a large yellow eye along with a yellow beak? they should be small fish
@@Yume10605You little peepermint I love how you left your original comment up like that and didn’t go back and edit it 😂😂😂.
@@CZcamshndl yup
We are beekeepers too and we are always surprised how different the honey is every season! This year, it has a real citrus flavor and we love it! Very light and lemony! Last year was more dark and molasses-like. We haven’t moved at all! Just something different they found, I guess! Peppermint honey sounds amazing!
There is a huge field of chamomile down the road from me. One of my neighbors has a beehive and it is so prevalent throughout the honey. Just beautiful.
A few towns away from me there's a greenhouse where they have bees that only have access to certain parts of their garden. They have almost every flower you can think of in honey form. Bees are so amazing
Honey reflects their harvest. If there is abundance of some flower, the taste shows that.
Honey has a tendency to take on some flavor from whatever flowers were used to make it. If the bees find mint flowers, you get minty honey. Lavender will impart that flavor and possibly some of the calming effect. It's certainly a nice way to naturally flavor and impart even more benefits to honey!
Sonetimes I just... can't deal with all your abundance. I feel like sh*t looking at how wonderful your lives must be and how much you share with your community. I feel really lost.
The clean up crew is adorable ❤
It's amazing how much healthier u r wen u source ur food locally...such a great video
It's also the classic tip "everything in moderation". When you choose to rely on your less abundant, homegrown (or locally-sourced) foods for eating, you eat less and meet the simplest fact of weight loss which is burning more calories than what you consume.
Of course, there's still the possible downside that you may not get the full range of calories, nutrients, and minerals if you rely on a food source that is not (yet) sufficient.
And then there's exercise... which is a wasps nest I don't care to talk about.
Yeah the bees are probably feeding on mint somewhere. They usually flavor honey professionally by planting numerous types of pollinating flowers that the bees take in. This changes the flavor of the honey.
Nonetheless, this looks so tasty.
We have hives too and peppermint grows like crazy and flowers cute purple flowers-which we also have and ive noticed all types of bees love it, even bumblers and native bees.
Honey is just insane that it exists. A literal natural candy
Love the content! I’d suspect your have a lot of mint growing in the area. I love raw honeycomb. Such a great treat. Freeze small squares of it and they’re like little honey drops
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The dopest thing ever, instead bees actually flavor the honey from different plants. That is so cool. No artificial flavoring😂😂
I love your abundance and i totally love your clean up crew
I tried honey from a hive in my hometown and it blew my mind. It tasted like how the air smelled when the wildflowers would bloom. It tasted like childhood. It was the first time I had non store bought honey. I would every so often just eat a spoonful of it for a boost of serotonin.
Please tell us the stuff you use beeswax for around the house! 😊
Jordan and Sylva are the most wholesome couple on CZcams. Your content always brings me joy!
Wow you’re blessed to have that honey comb bite!! Keep up the amazing work!!
Ya your honey will always take on different flavors based on what kind of flowers they have access to. I love buying amen bee products because they set their bees up in orchards and fields will specific flowers such as orange blossom, sage, olallieberry, avocado (my favorite because it has almost this spicy flavor to it…) and a few others. Honey is amazing in so many ways!!!!
There must be mint plants somewhere in the vicinity, the nectar and pollen will lend flavor, and sometimes color too. My neighbors raise bees, and we have about two acres together. In the spring, our yards are carpeted with blue Siberian Squills. They harvest that honey shortly after the flowers are done blooming, and it has a delicate, sweet floral taste, with blue honey, and bluish gold wax. Beautiful and Delicious! 🐝🍯🐝
A friend gave us honey that the bees made from mint flowers and it was awesome!
You two made me want some mint honey 🍯 😋 that would go sooo well in a piping hot cup of green tea
@@blackburned It is sooooooo good. I'm planning on starting a beehive next year, and you better believe it's going to be surrounded by mint.
That would be good on some chocolate ice cream!
@@moralebooster8437 Yeah, except for the Diabeeeetus, lol!
I'll see myself out....
I love the bit you take! Looks so good!
Bees are my absolute FAVORITE I love them so much!
When my mint gets over grown and flowers bees flock to it! I bet you have blooming mint somewhere near you!
They must have had a large patch of some mint family flowers! Y'all are an inspiration !
Different plants create different tasting honey! Tupelo honey is incredible!
As said by a ton of other people, you’ll grab flavors from any flowers growing near by that they pollinate. That being said, you should try planting some flowers close by that you like so you can get those flavors!!
My family kept bee's when I was younger, great memories!
I've had friends who keep bees in multiple locations near different herb crops tell me that lavender vs. mint vs. other herbs have hives that produce some honey with different subtle undertones. I'd gotten to try a few. It does seem that whatever volatile oils do this degrade fairly quickly given honey's long shelf life.
I'm jelly. Pooh bite, happy clean-up crew, boatloads of honeycomb, all while being covered in honey and amazing wax products! Yes amazing Happy and healthy adventures!
Can you make a vid about how you process the honey & wax & separate then from each other? Thanks!!
I wish I can live on the land everything so fresh and good and wholesome what a beautiful blessing with all that abundance
Honey tastes different based on the available wildlife they harvest from. They must have gotten some tasty blooms from a peppermint or eucalyptus plant (eucalyptus honey can come across as minty in certain amounts)
you might have some wild mint near your hive! mint blooms all over my friends land on her farm so her honey has a minty flavor sometimes!
Livin the life! Continued blessings to you!
Flavor of honey determined by what they are eating...you can tell how far they are going to feed😊
Oh wow, your apiary, bees, and resulting abundance are incredible. And I loved how you became Winnie the Poo. Childlike exuberance spreading all around, ending with the canine cleanup crew. ❤😂
When I want to feel like a queen I'll make myself a plate of honeycomb, almonds and cheddar presbytere 💅
Hand sewing, working with leather, linen, wood, bone, heck just for camping (sealing seams) We always have a chunk of beeswax around. We still use it for topping jam jars. You likely have a LOT of mint blooming nearby. Go check it out and harvest some of that, too!!! I do love the chewiness of the comb honey. You have an adorable cleaning assistant.
I would think that the peppery medicinal taste comes from wildflowers and honeydew. My godfather is a hobbyist beekeper and his honey is realy dark and similar to your description.
Sticky is my absolute least favorite feeling in the world so this stressed me out but at the same time, I would love to go ham on a honeycomb. I'm so conflicted 😅
Wow merci beaucoup! Nous sommes devenus tellement ignorants de la base de la vrai vie
Thank you Lord for all these blessings 🙏💯
Wow, u guys even keep bees!!
That's hella cool! And I love that u appreciate what you do so much that u refer to it as, "dealing with abundance".
I respect that.
Awesome Work!! Be Well 🙂
bros energy is mad calming i gotta get on this lifestyle
Neat! I love raw honey fresh from the hive.
I cannot wait to start keeping bees with my husband and kids! I NEED to take a bite of some honeycomb!!
My dad was a beekeeper hobbyist
We got lots of stings but also lots of beeswax to chew on. Barefoot in the hot Georgia summers...fun memories!😊
What a blessing! Everything about this is beautiful! I'm so grateful for you and your family to have this honey and these healthy bees and hives! That is so lovely!
Dude thats my childhood dream!! Ive never heard of that type of hive. When we are getting into beekeeping we will def try them out
Yup, a middle school teacher of mine was a bee farmer with her husband and they had a great business producing honeys of different flavors. She taught us that whatever is in bloom like for ex. grapefruits, mint, avocados, will transfer its flavor and color into the honey. We tried each, the honey made from the nectar of grapefruit blooms were very citrusy, the honey from mint blooms was so strong in mint, and the honey from avocado blooms was very dark in color and more bitter in flavor. Delicious!
Awesome job you guys! To be honest, I am envious of your set up, makes me want to start anew.
This is FANTASTIC!!! I have never seen one of these. And, I can only imagine what all the bees wax is used for ..... Excellent!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Looks amazing too! Great job!
brings back good memories of sneaking honeycomb from the buckets when it was first harvested, just makes me smile
Winnie the Pooh style indeed ! Love this presentation !! 🤩
Honey has a hint of flavor from whatever the bees were harvesting. There must be a blooming mint patch nearby.
Yes. The peppermint was something those little guys were feeding on for a while. True untouched honey will ALWAYS taste like the wildflowers they’re feeding on 😊 anytime my family leaves for Mexico I make sure to get some from an abuelas land…WILD HONEY IS THE BEST!!!
That look on your face after biting the comb was just perfect
I have tried many different honeys that have one plant dominating, and the most amazing to my taste buds was a thyme honey. It had a texture like silk velvet and the least overtly sweet flavour, that clover and borage honeys tend to exhibit. It really was quite delightful and a flavour I will never forget.
Nice to see someone actually using proper protection!! ❤❤🎉🎉😊😊
Yov bruh the clean up crew tho!😂😂🐶🐶
Thank you for keeping bees, I love bees and honey
I remember having blackberry honey because beekeepers used to keep the hives all in the blackberry fields of my hometown. It was super delicious!
You have it all figured out. Grow what you eat & eat what you grow. I love your chanel.❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏
I love this. bees are so helpful to us.
There's so many plants that produce a peppermint aroma, it would be hard to pinpoint which one, but your honey will usually mimic the aroma and even the physical effects of whatever plant is being planted the most and is in bloom when the nectar for the honey was being collected. So keep track of what's growing around their hive and range to learn the taste of the different wild plants and crops flowers. Hope that helps 😊
very true. the sorce of the pollen can change the flavor of the honey. flowers, fruit trees, and herbs all play a major part in how the honey can taste.
Also if there is any bee balm or bergamot these plats are also in the mint family and will give the honey a similar flavor profile
That smile of satisfaction on your face is all we need is this world for everyone to feel😊
That big ol' bite looked like heaven. I'm jealous!
That dog looks so happy.
The flavor of the honey is based on what the bees collected the pollen from!! Some beekeepers even put their beehives in fields of specific kinds of plants to help cultivate specific flavors of honey. So if your honey tastes like peppermint, check and see if there is peppermint nearby. That is probably where they got the pollen.
If you don’t want the peppermint flavor again next harvest, try investing in some more neutral flavored plants that are full of pollen and plant them nearby, or remove the nearby peppermint. (My personal favorite is Clover honey. 😋)
I've had nothing but failure when it comes to beekeeping. The last four years in a row and not one hive has lived through the winter. I didn't do a hive this year because we bought a house with 5 acres and felt I would try again next spring. This makes me feel a little less discouraged.😅😅😅 Motivated to try again.
I love this. I also love the cleanup crew
The clean up crew is the best! ❤ 🐶
I am jealous ! Eating that honey like a piece of cake!!!!!
My favorite part is how the doggo looks sooo happy to be eating the honey❤
Depending on elevation the bees could be pulling mountain mint (I think regular mint produces nectar too) Also if you feed the bees peppermint candies (some colder climate bee keepers do) they would render that down into feed and you could have some of that left over in the comb. It could be a lot of things honestly haha
I put all sorts of herbs around my hives. It gives such amazing flavors!☺️
I love to learn about nature and your videos are interesting, so i subscribed right away
Bees are amazing 🤍
This was so satisfying to watch. I would love to my own bees friends! I would plant them a delicious flower garden for them to live and work in.❤❤❤🐝🐝🐝🌹🌻🌷