It is taking me time to catch up on all the things I have been recording around the home from the beginning of spring but I get to things eventually. Today's video was taken in April before the spring was in full swing. I'm at the point now where my management cycle has been tested enough that I know when to bring certain systems online. I built this site to help me keep track of all the cool projects I have going on with the intent of eventually building a bountiful food forest. Good food forest management depends on animals above and below ground. Many of the critters I have no control of their actual placement I can only encourage things to attract the animals I want. For example, getting worms to come to till my gardens is easy if I build the gardens and the compost bins with the right material. Once there I never worry about them. Honey bees on the other hand are another matter. I specifically go out of my way and spend money on them to get them in the mail and manage them through to winter and spring survivability. The bees I have to worry about or I shouldn't be keeping them. One of the things they require to keep them in my yard and happy is plenty of water. Last year I presented 4 easy ways to provide water for the bees and I revisit that today but with change for eeasier management of how water is supplied for the bees and gardens. The rain catchers are not shown in the video because I did not have them out in April and I still do not have them out. The birdbath bee waterer does fine for the intended purpose and the drip watering system combined with the water retention of the swales and hugel mounds makes other resources for water redundant. If I foresee water resource issues as the summer progresses then I may bring the rain catchers online but right now my other hard work is paying off just fine. Please Like, Subscribe, and hit the Bell to get the latest. https://tonyteolis.com https://www.patreon.com/Prepper21 https://instagram.com/prepper21st https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-teolis-838a63a7/ https://tonyteolis.com/contact https://www.paypal.me/Prepper21 https://odysee.com/@Prepper21:c Welcome and Learn to thrive through the challenges of the 21st century. How will you get there? What will you be producing? Be more productive, it's fun. Join the community of experts for not only surviving but thriving during the 21st Century. This is your time to make a difference for you and yours. if you don't plan your life it will be planned for you. The same goes for your garden or lack thereof. Disclaimer https://tonyteolis.com/?page_id=3318 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBD1gDGZbs

From 2015 - The final step for preparing gardens for winter is to sow the bare soil around perennial plants and trees with winter rye and hairy vetch. I ordered a late shipment of seeds from SouthernExposure.com and it's not enough for all my gardens but it will do. I also planted a lot more garlic and rad shallots i received this week from GrowOrganic.com. I got lucky with the weather or I wouldn't have planted them. That part should have been done last month. Lastly, I covered the Gardens with mulched leaves. https://tonyteolis.com https://instagram.com/resetprep https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-teolis https://tonyteolis.com/contact https://www.paypal.me/Prepper21 https://odysee.com/@Prepper21:c Welcome and Learn to thrive through the challenges of the 21st century. How will you get there? What will you be producing? Be more productive, it's fun. Join the community of experts for not only surviving but thriving during the 21st Century. This is your time to make a difference for you and yours. if you don't plan your life it will be planned for you. The same goes for your garden or lack thereof. Disclaimer https://tonyteolis.com/?page_id=3318 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HcoD8U_beE

This is a cool video I made of the top bar hive at night. The plexiglass window allows me to take a look inside this busy hive for some never before seen shots of how this hive operates. Everyone is working in the hive. This is certainly not a place where they celebrate happy hour. Please Like, Subscribe, and hit the Bell to get the latest. https://tonyteolis.com https://www.patreon.com/Prepper21 https://instagram.com/prepper21st https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-teolis-838a63a7/ https://tonyteolis.com/contact https://www.paypal.me/Prepper21 https://odysee.com/@Prepper21:c Welcome and Learn to thrive through the challenges of the 21st century. How will you get there? What will you be producing? Be more productive, it's fun. Join the community of experts for not only surviving but thriving during the 21st Century. This is your time to make a difference for you and yours. if you don't plan your life it will be planned for you. The same goes for your garden or lack thereof. Disclaimer https://tonyteolis.com/?page_id=3318 This video was taken two days after I expanded the hive to a total of thirteen top bars. The bees are already drawing out new comb and they have plenty of room for expansion. Later in the evening the video shows how well the guard bees protect their home from unwanted pests and predators. I may put a robber screen on it later to aid in protection from the European hornets I have seen occasionally. Enjoy the video and learn how to inspect a honey bee hive at night. Now if I can only figure out how to do similar observations of the Langstroth hives. See plans below for to build a top bar hive with an observation. Something I insist on doing if you have the opportunity. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbXrUtknjYE

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