Table of Contents
- Why should you care?
- 20 Billion dollars of our food is produced through aid of bees
- Half of bees die each year, and we don’t know why
- Education, equipment, trial and error, and bees cost a lot of time and $$$$$
- Final thoughts and a call for help
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- How I built the Tesla of Honey Bee Hives
- Why Should You Care about Technology in Beekeeping?
- 40% of Honey Bees died last winter, This is what I am doing to help Bees Everywhere
- Technology In Beekeeping: What I am developing and seeking funding for
Why should you care?
Quick takeaways
- 20 Billion dollars of our food is produced through aid of bees
- Half of bees die each year, and we don’t know why
- Education, equipment, trial and error, and bees cost a lot of time and $$$$$
- final
Let’s start with why you should care.
+20 billion in food
Like you and myself, we need to eat pretty much every day, and honey bees help produce a third of our food!
The types of food they produce are the types that taste and look the best and are pretty good for you as well.
I’m talking about apples, peaches, melons, lemons, limes, cherries, strawberries, and about 20 billion dollars worth of other foods in the U.S. alone. That’s huge!
I bet each of you reading this has a favorite honey bee pollinated food that wouldn’t exist without them. My favorite are strawberries which I make into delicious smoothies with just the right amount of honey added. (see picture for example)
(Respond back with your favorite bee pollinated food, or see the complete list here.)
Half of Bees Die
Honey Bees are in trouble. About half of the population die off each year. Half!
And these problems have been progressively getting worse year after year for decades.
Many of us, probably including you, the person reading this, have a love for bees, a deep desire to contribute and make a difference, and a calling to get into beekeeping.
We all want to do our part to help keep bees alive, as healthy as possible, and support locally grown food.
Education
The current state-of-the-art hive technology has been “state-of-the-art” for almost a century.
You think we would start with buying equipment (related to this image), where I’d show you what currently exists and contrast it to what I’ve built, but that isn’t what I’m going to do. To completely understand what I’ve built, you need to first understand the extended process a beekeeper goes through just to get ready to take care of their own bees.
If you were talking about getting a dog, finding where to get the dog and supplies from would be the first step. All told, you could do a good job at being a dog owner with under a month of preparation (i.e. training, courses, etc). This is not the case with honey bees. They take time, energy, and $$$$$.
Back to beekeeping. I wanted to be a beekeeper for years before starting on the path to becoming one. I imagined how it would feel to take care of them. I could not wait!
But, before I let myself buy them, I, and others like me, started by taking online and local courses, finding a mentor, and reading as many books as I could get my hands on.
All of this was just to get the basics out of the way, which can take years to complete.
I didn’t (and don’t) want to harm the bees or do something wrong.
An experienced beekeeper, with all of this under their belt, can crack open their hive, look in it, and subconsciously know dozens of things that equal the state and health of their hive. This takes time, education, and experience. Even with all of that going for them, they still lose many hives and walk away not knowing why.
Even with all of that going for them they still lose many hives and walk away not knowing why
Equipment
After navigating the path of education, you’re now ready to buy and install. Here are a list cheap beekeeping beginner kits. After buying this, the nuc or package of bees (including queen), and installing it in your backyard or in a friend’s/farmer’s piece of land – which many people are open to doing – you can now consider yourself a beekeeper.
Fellow apartment residents shouldn’t let not having back yard stop you. Contact your local beekeeping group or the Federation for help on finding a home for your bees
One journey ends, but an even bigger and more complex one begins.
Trial and error costs a lot of time and money, and even billions of bee lives.
Education and training, trial and error, bees, and equipment can cost years of life and tens of thousands of dollars.
The problem is that besides the Flow Hive that came out recently, there really has not been amazing, game-changing technology in beekeeping. We live in the information age, yet there is a massive information blackout when it comes to honey bees.
We live in the information age, yet there is a massive information blackout when it comes to honey bees.
To illustrate this point, I have been a beekeeper for ten years, and if I’m being honest, I’ve killed a lot of bees in that time. Not on purpose, and most likely for reasons I’ll ever know, but it crushes me every time I open a hive to find the bees have died. In between inspections, a lot can happen.
In-between inspections a lot can happen, and I remember wishing I could see what was going on 24/7 so I wouldn’t miss anything.
I knew there was a better way. I started digging through the internet, and after hundreds of forum, courses, and products later, I realized there still isn’t a good solution for the “I don’t know” problem that we all face.
Sure, there are toys out there that will tell you the temperature or sound of your hive, but in isolation what does that tell you? You need a lot of things working together to find out the state of a hive at any given time.
A good example of this in practice is when you go to your doctor when you’re sick. Do they just check your temperature or do they look over a number of vital signs and pain points to assess what is wrong with you? Hopefully, the latter. Trust me it’s a big difference. (link to other post about sickness/mission)
We need to use that same type of all-in-one, holistic, approach to this problem. And, we need to make technology that creates massive value for bees, beekeepers, and bee researchers all at the same time.
It’s the difference between catching someone when they are about to fall an inch off the ground vs when they first start to stumble!
Final
In the end, everything down to what type of clamp to use to hold parts together were held to the hard scrutiny of what is best for the bees, then what was best for beekeepers and bee researchers.
We are stuck in a world with complex issues, but this one, the one of the bees, beekeepers, and bee researchers can be solved with your help.
The future of beekeeping is here and now. If you would take just 10 seconds, you can help make it happen.
Soon there will be a Kickstarter to help fund this project from prototype phase to production. I have a clear vision, and team to build this.
I cannot do this alone.
Help me, help the bees, and help the beekeeping community
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How I built the Tesla of Honey Bee Hives
Why Should You Care about Technology in Beekeeping?
40% of Honey Bees died last winter, This is what I am doing to help Bees Everywhere
Am very much interested in bee keeping but the major problem is market, technology latest hives,also funds are big challenge.