Land of Milk and Honey
A litre of milk from Iggy Pop this morning and 41 lbs of honey from two supers from the fabulous aptly named Hive No.1 this afternoon. I reckon I could […]
Tag Archives: Bad beekeeper
Swarm
Just found a swarm in one of our plum trees and relocated it to a spare hive i the apiary – feeling like a proper beekeeper right now.
Muppetry in Motion
There’s a reason I don’t clip the wings of my queens. Yes, I rarely find the queens which makes wing-clipping a moot point, but the main reason I don’t do […]
Nevruz
So what happened this year ….. We hatched out two batches of Pekin Ducks from our duck eggs, realised ducklings are the most unfeasibly, cutest, baby birds ever, but also […]
Bee Sheds, Raspberries and New Adventures
On Sunday, after my swim, we cleaned out my bee shed. Last autumn was a bit chaotic. After trying to extract the heather honey just before leaving to go on […]
Heather Honey
The day before we left to go on holiday, a day when I had a million other things to do, I decided to harvest one last batch of honey […]
Honeycomb for Sale
Over the bank holiday weekend I took some more honey from my hives. but this time, I also took something a little more special – honeycomb. Usually I use wired […]
