Swarm
Have you ever tried sweeping up bees from grass? I don’t recommend it. Last week I collected a swarm – it was massive and hanging from one of our small […]
Have you ever tried sweeping up bees from grass? I don’t recommend it. Last week I collected a swarm – it was massive and hanging from one of our small […]
Based on a superficial amount of research (5 minutes on the internet) and in response to two situations I found myself in I have decided to change how I keep […]
I have been meaning to post, but life has been getting in the way. I have the proofs of a book to go through, another article has just been finished, […]
A somewhat belated 2018 Nevruz celebration – there has been a lot going on here and the blog has fallen behind – I will try and catch up although the […]
After the snow I went to check on my bees last week. It was a warm-ish day and the bees were busy spring-cleaning their hives – actually I have no […]
Happy New Year. Hope 2018 brings you a fuzzy feeling of peace and a general sense of contentment. Here are my best nine instagram posts from 2017: lots of multicoloured […]
Life has been crazy here for the past month and the day-job (despite only being a part-time day-job) managed to force itself centre stage and use up all my words […]
Earlier in the week I finally got round to putting my bees to bed for the winter. I wrapped them in chicken wire – well the hives, not the individual […]
Ever wonder why heather honey is so expensive? Oh, I can tell you why it is so costly, it is the time involved to extract it – never mind the […]
So last Wednesday at 7pm I found myself rocking up at a house in a nearby village to collect a swarm living in two old supers. Obviously as I am […]