Beekeeping

We have recently trekked all the way to the Outer Hebrides. I did get quite a-lot of satisfaction when people asked me where we were going on holiday and I could reply with ‘ we are camping in the Outer Hebrides’ which was usually followed …

We checked the bees today, they are busy building comb, the queens in both hives are looking good and laying eggs, larvae are already developing. This is all good, though a spell of cold weather won’t be good now as the bees might realise too …

So, look at us! we are all smart and fancy for the next season with our new look blog site. Why did we move? We wanted a bit more control over things for the future and since everything else is about to get going again, …

We have been really busy in the last few weeks from returning from France, the bees have been feeding on sugar solution as the weather has kept them out but there has been little or no forage due to the warm weather. We have been …

Our summer holiday this year was in France. We tucked the bees up with some sugar solution before we left – they were hungry girls – scoffed it down, and put in some varroa treatment and then closed things up to head off to Brittany. …

We have harvested our late summer honey this week. Last time it was a lovely amber colour but this time to our surprise it was a beautiful tawny brown, with a strong and fragrant taste. I am starting to sound like a wine taster, but …

So remember that we had a hive under the hive? We took the hive apart to look at it and it was like this. We also had some advice that another queen under here was unlikely since queens, bit like tomcats, don’t fancy living close …

The moment has arrived! We are honey producers. It seemed very complicated but actually if you follow the process it’s not so bad. We had to get the frames from the hive, well that sounds easy. Lets not mention the tens of thousands of bees …

The moment has come to harvest! We are so excited we have done so much research into what to do. We need all this stuff: an extractor – we are using a radial one a spectronmeter a honey settling tank a mesh filter jars for …