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Apiaries house the vital bees needed at Lewis Taylor Farms, which are co-owned by William L. Brim and Edward Walker who have cotton, peanut, vegetable and greenhouse operations in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019. Mr. Brim talks about the immigration and disaster relief challenges following Hurricane Michael. USDA helped this farm with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) for structural damage cleanup. He also mentions the importance of having Secretary Sonny Perdue, a person with agricultural background, visit and listen to 75 producers six months ago, in southern Georgia.
The farm’s operation includes bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon and a variety of specialty peppers on 6,500 acres; and cotton and peanuts on 1,000 acres. Near the greenhouses is a circular crop of long-leaf pines seedlings under a pivot irrigation system equipped with micro sprinklers. Long-leaf pines are an indigenous tree in the Southeast. Growers are working to increase the number of this slower growing hearty hardwood tree in this region. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
ECP www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-progr...
Vendors, partners, entertainers and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency and service representatives setup for the Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
It's Presidents Day here in the U.S.A. a holiday for some but not for the Apiary inspector from the Florida Dept. of Agriculture. Mr. Rob and I discussed chemical free beekeeping then took a look through these hives today and found them to be in very good condition.
Checking the USDA Apiary.
Transcript
00:01 USDA (logo) United States Department of Agriculture
00:04 The People’s Garden (and People’s Garden logo)
00:06 (Text) A Tour of the People's Garden Apiary
00:09 The People’s Garden Apiary has two bee hives…
00:13 on top of the Whitten Building…
00:15 …which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Agriculture, in Washington, D.C.
00:21 We chose the location of the apiary, where there was adequate ventilation, where the hives could face…
00:27 …east, or southeast, where they could be protected from the bad weather from the west and north…
00:34 …and where it would have some afternoon shade. The top of the Whitten Building in front of the utility area is the perfect area.
00:42 The first thing we would do, is pick up our bee suits, the smoker, the bee gloves, the ankle wraps. We’d go up to the roof. We would put our suits on.
01:07 I’d light the smoker., and I like to use dry white pine needles as my fuel.
01:17 And, we would exit the hard patio surface up there through the gate, down the sidewalk…
01:23 …to the east end of the roof, where the two beehives are.
01:29 When we first approach the hives,
01:30 …we just give a little…
01:32 …puff at the entrance to calm the bees down.
01:36 What it does is mask that attack pheromone. You normally wait about 30 seconds then you could proceed
01:43 …to removing the lid of the box, and removing the honey supers, which are the smaller boxes on top of the hive.
01:52 This is what they…
01:54 …call capped honey that’s ready to be harvested.
01:58 And, then proceed to the brood chamber, where…
02:03 …those are the two larger, deep supers, as the call them, on the bottom of the hive.
02:09 Let me turn this up on it’s side. Now you notice it’s all "glistney."
02:12 It’s actually full of nectar.
02:15 Normally, you remove a frame or two, starting at…
02:19 one ends. And, look and see if you can see any eggs…
02:24 …because our objective is really to see if the queen is Okay.
02:27 And, the way to see if the queen is Okay, is to see if there are any eggs. You don’t have to see the queen; all you have to do is see those eggs…
02:34 …and you’ll know the queen is there. You start closing it back up…
02:38…exactly the opposite as when you opened the hive up.
02:40 And, when you are all done, you put the lid on, and you’re done.
02:52, (Text)
Visit Us.
usda.gov/peoplesgarden
People’s Garden logo.
02:54 (Text)
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Thanks to USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service National Agricultural Engineer Wayne Bogovich for production support.
USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.
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Take a virtual tour of the People’s Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) headquarters’ Whitten Building, in Washington, D.C., where People’s Garden Volunteer Beekeeper and Natural Resources Conservation Service National Agricultural Engineer Wayne Bogovich, checks-in on 40,000 happy healthy Italian honey bees, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.
Honey is filtered through an elastic screen material that retains bits of beeswax that came from the honeycomb racks, during the extraction process at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the two colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice uses a honey rake to uncap the beeswax that seals honeycomb cells full of honey, during the extraction process at the Bee Research Laboratory at ARS in Beltsville, MD, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
in the pink baseball cap
Valentine is the new Chair of the Ulster Beekeepers Association. I did a photoshoot with her at one of her apiaries today where she was delivering some practical training with some new beekeepers doing the UBKA "Introduction to Beekeeping" course. The pictures are for an upcoming article about her.
I have 400 pictures, ...now for whittling them down to a selection I can share.
Grenada was abuzz with beekeepers from around the region at the first Caribbean Bee College (CBC). Seasoned apiculturists as well as amateurs and hobbyists enjoyed a three-day program of lectures, hands-on sessions, and tours of local apiaries.
The event was held at St. George’s University, home of the East Caribbean Bee Research and Extension Center (ECBREC). Patterned after the University of Florida's Bee College, the CBC aims to share research, information, and tools to improve the sustainability of beekeeping in the region.
Read more: www.sgu.edu/news-events/news-archives13-first-caribbean-b....
Honey is filtered through an elastic screen material that retains bits of beeswax that came from the honeycomb racks, during the extraction process at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the two colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Edmunds School first graders visit Asst. Prof. Kristin Wolf at the Champlain College Apiary for a close-up look at the hives. June 8, 2017. Photo by Stephen Mease
Grenada was abuzz with beekeepers from around the region at the first Caribbean Bee College (CBC). Seasoned apiculturists as well as amateurs and hobbyists enjoyed a three-day program of lectures, hands-on sessions, and tours of local apiaries.
The event was held at St. George’s University, home of the East Caribbean Bee Research and Extension Center (ECBREC). Patterned after the University of Florida's Bee College, the CBC aims to share research, information, and tools to improve the sustainability of beekeeping in the region.
Read more: www.sgu.edu/news-events/news-archives13-first-caribbean-b....
Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. This is the other side of the garden apiary at the NAC. They have a mixture of hives with colonies of varying quality as this is where beekeeping assements are done and this is where hubby did part of his advanced assesment last year which he gained.
Honey is filtered through an elastic screen material that retains bits of beeswax that came from the honeycomb racks, during the extraction process at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the two colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A view from the drive axis, inside a centrifuge, honeycomb racks spin, and centrifugal force causes honey to flow out and stream to the walls inside the stainless steel cylindrical vessel at the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Swarm right outside my little apiary. This was a super easy swarm to catch. It looks higher, but it was only about 4 feet off the ground on a thin tree. i have a great video if I can get around to editing it to less then 3 inutes
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) shows a rack of honeycombs full of honey, to Office of Communications Acting Communication Coordinator Brian k. Mabry looking on from a safe perspective window near the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters' Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C., during the harvesting of honey from two colonies on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Found this description on the net.
It holds true for me.
"Often a person's hobby or sideline business is a labor of love rather than a reliable source of income. This is most often the case when the business owner or freelancer has other means of financial support -- such as a regular job."
For the novice here's the answer to the question, What's inside those boxes that resemble drawers? Working inside each individual hive are approximately 30,000 honeybees. The bottom box, referred to as the brood chamber contains ten of these wooden frames in which the bees build their comb. In these combs the queen lays her eggs and the bees store some nectar and pollen to feed to the growing larvae once the eggs hatch. The boxes stacked on top also contain ten frames of comb, this comb is generally used to store excess nectar that the bees will process into honey for long term storage.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Apiaries house the vital bees needed at Lewis Taylor Farms, which are co-owned by William L. Brim and Edward Walker who have cotton, peanut, vegetable and greenhouse operations in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019. Mr. Brim talks about the immigration and disaster relief challenges following Hurricane Michael. USDA helped this farm with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) for structural damage cleanup. He also mentions the importance of having Secretary Sonny Perdue, a person with agricultural background, visit and listen to 75 producers six months ago, in southern Georgia.
The farm’s operation includes bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon and a variety of specialty peppers on 6,500 acres; and cotton and peanuts on 1,000 acres. Near the greenhouses is a circular crop of long-leaf pines seedlings under a pivot irrigation system equipped with micro sprinklers. Long-leaf pines are an indigenous tree in the Southeast. Growers are working to increase the number of this slower growing hearty hardwood tree in this region. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
ECP www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-progr...
Raw honey flows from a centrifuge that extracts honey from honeycomb racks, at the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, aatop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer opens the tap, letting raw honey flow from a centrifuge that extracts honey from honeycomb racks, at the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A view from the drive axis, inside a centrifuge, honeycomb racks spin, and centrifugal force causes honey to flow out and stream to the walls inside the stainless steel cylindrical vessel at the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary,atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) shows a rack of honeycombs full of honey, to Office of Communications Acting Communication Coordinator Brian k. Mabry looking on from a safe perspective window near the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters' Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C., during the harvesting of honey from two colonies on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Super heros, flamingo, leopard and other characters compete in a Halloween costume contest for pets, kids and adults at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.