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 […]
Tag Archives: Bad beekeeper
Rose Hives
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 […]
Wakey Wakey
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 […]
Putting the bees to bed
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 […]
Professional Bee Mover
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
