Spring

Hey there, how are you? Bee season has started again and we have been to look at the bees to see if they survived winter. Mmmm, well it’s not all good news I am afraid. We have lost our weakest hive, this is not a surprise to us and gives us a bit of an opportunity to relocate it.
Hive 1 though is doing very well, we have a super on already and think we are on course for honey in early June. Hive 2 is doing ok but too.
This is just as well really as we could do with a good harvest, since we are at home, like everyone else in isolation. Producing food at this time is really beneficial to us and being at home we have been able to think more about what we would like to do on this front. Hubby has declined my invitation to adopt 2 chickens, Trinny and Susannah (I had already thought of names) on the basis that He already is the sole carer for the younger beekeepers guinea pigs and the family cats.
However, we have had agreement for the thousand composting worms we now have in our rescued wormery who are happily chomping though all our waste they can eat, even the odd toilet roll tube. This was dead handy when the brown bin food waste collection was cancelled by the council, and even better when the littlest beekeeper did her Zero Waste Brownie badge over the Easter.

Another development has been that the boy beekeeper, in the absence of school sending any work at the beginning, started writing a blog! School work has kicked in now but he’s still going! I, as an experienced blogger, have not been asked to guest, but hubby who has never put finger to keyboard has already written a guest blog on it. Perhaps I will be invited later as some kind of celebrity writer.

Like many people we have lots of seeds going as we like others thought it was a good idea as soon as the sun came out but I will let you know how they go.

I post on Instagram #roaringbees most days so you can catch me there too. Please have a look.

More on the bees soon, stay safe everyone.