Flow Hive is a progressive bee locale innovation, permitting you to gather nectar without opening the hive and with insignificant aggravation to the honey bees. The notable undertaking propelled on Indiegogo recently with a humble objective of $70,000 USD.
The venture turned into an overall sensation and Indiegogo's best crowdfunding battle ever, raising $12,204,614 USD, 17,435% past their beginning objective.
Honey on Tap from Your Own Bee sanctuary
How it biginned
Flow Hive is the climax of 10 years in length try by Cedar Anderson and his dad Stuart Anderson. The family has been keeping honey bees for eras and Cedar began his first hive when he was only six years of age. Anderson clarifies:
"Numerous years prior… .I went down to one of my colonies, which I knew was a really wild hive. It was getting on towards night and a somewhat of a dim day, not the best time for beekeepin!
So I put on the honey bee vale my grandmother made me and squeezed the gaffa tape back on the lattice that secured the openings. At that point I put on my glove, (I couldn't locate the second one). I started up the smoker and blew a lot of smoke into the hive.
When I opened the top my suspicions were affirmed. The honey bees weren't upbeat about being exasperates. I pulled the sleeve over my gloveless hand, blew some more smoke into the hive and pulled some pleasant edges of nectar out."
"The hive was stuffed with honey bees and it was close difficult to get the nectar out without squashing heaps of them. I truly don't care for squashing honey bees! The honey bees got to be grumpier and began to sting me through my honey bee suit. They weren't upbeat. I set up the hive back together, squashing more honey bees as the top went on and wound up fleeing over the field considering… there must be a superior way! So my Dad and I set to chip away at 10 years in length errand of developing the beekeepers dream."
How it functions
TLC still an absolute necessity
While the procedure of extricating nectar gets to be more straightforward and less nosy, specialists and devotees ought to realize that regardless you need to utilize your smoker and honey bee suit and do all the typical and fundamental things to keep your honey bees sound, e.g., reviewing the brood home for malady, swarm aversion, bugs, insects, and so forth. Regardless you have to draw your hive separated to do this and you will even now get stung by your honey bees :D
The conventional methodology
– Protect yourself from stings
– Fire up a smoker to calm the honey bees
– Crack the hive open
– Lift substantial boxes
– Pull out the edges, do whatever it takes not to squash honey bees
– Brush the honey bees off the brushes or utilize a leaf blower
– Transport the casings to a handling shed
– Cut the wax topping off every casing with a warmed blade or programmed uncapping machine
– Put them in an extractor to turn out the nectar
– Filter out all the wax and dead honey bees
– Clean up
– Place
FLOW HIVE
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