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- My name is Daisy and I'm from England,
a little place called Surrey.
Nice quiet town, there's not much around really.
And I've actually just got a new job.
I work in a forest school, so I spend my day with children
out in the woods, that's what I do.
- My name's Cameron,
I'm a commissioning engineer for London Underground.
I work nights mainly, which is quite good
for the bee keeping, because if I need to come
and do it in the daytime, I've got it free, really.
- So we've got lots of other animals,
chickens, two tortoises, guinea pigs,
a rabbit, dogs, cat, and bees.
(laughing)
That's the garden.
- Well, I've always wanted to keep bees.
Me and Daisy were just always really interested
in all kinds of wildlife but we never really had the space,
or it all seemed like a lot of work
to get all the bits and pieces together.
And then Daisy showed me the Flow Hive video
and a few months later we literally just made the order.
- Because we don't, we don't have any experience
and we're still at home,
we don't have all the room to get all
the honey extraction gear or the money, really.
So, we thought we'd just save up, get a Flow Hive,
and then we did a couple,
we did a 20 week course with East Surrey Bees
and then it was hooked from there.
- When you open the hive, it is fascinating.
You seeing a microorganisms just evolving everyday.
Eggs turn into larvae, pupating and turn into bees
and you see how the bees are interacting with each other,
feeding to each other,
telling each other where the honey is.
You can't get enough of it, even if you just
stare at one frame each bee is doing something different
and it never gets old, you never get tired of looking at it.
It's completely fascinating.
- So every week we do look forward to our days off
and checking the bees.
It's really therapeutic to just zone in and you completely,
you lose everything around you and you're just concentrating
on your bees, which is really good, really good for us.
Yeah, they're very calming.
I think our favourite thing about going through
the hive is spotting the queen.
So, we didn't mark her, purposely, because we like
having the challenge and the competition of finding her.
(laughing) Obviously I won. (laughing)
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- Yeah, we haven't really met any other bee keepers our age,
mid-twenties, but it's changing now and a lot
more younger people are getting involved,
which I think is a good thing.
Becoming aware of how important they are
and what they can do for us
and what a joy they are to keep.
- It's quite nice being a young bee keeper,
quite unusual 'cause there's not that many around.
We find a lot of people we go on courses with,
the majority of them are retired,
but it's quite nice because we're quite into
Instagram or posting on Facebook
and so many of our friends are so interested
and it's lovely, 'cause lots of people want to
come over and have a look, you know,
get the bee suits on and I think it's hopefully
going that way, so a lot more young people
getting into it and it's just a really good hobby.
I don't really have any hobbies,
but bee keeping, it's awesome.
- Today we cracked the frame and harvested the honey.
It obviously the honey it poured out perfectly,
as it does in all the videos.
And, yeah, we had some honey on bread.
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- It's so good.
(giggling)
It's so good. (laughing) I got it everywhere.
So, being able to care for them and look after them
is definitely quite important to us.
Regardless of the honey, just having them here
and that they're happy and them being happy
is beneficial for us.
It's good for the garden and the vegetables we grow.
I think this is just the beginning with our hive journey,
our bee keeping, it's spreading, it's addictive.
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