Another couple of weeks, during which Emily has headed off to University, and Lucy has gone to Marchent’s Hill with…
Flipping Hives…
Today we were back in the training apiary continuing to prepare the bees for winter. The Apilife VAR anti-varroa treatments…
A day in the orchard…
The bees in the training apiary (including the FreeBees) are located in the middle of an old orchard which is…
Autumn Makework…
So over two weeks since the last entry, mostly because what we’ve been doing is barely worth writing about. Other…
Feed The Bees
Due to other commitments on Sunday, I didn’t get along to the Apiary session with everyone else, and went on…
Laying, cleaning, and taking away
Due to holidays, it’s been a while since I updated here. First the good news – we went back to…
Extraction and Honey
See that? That’s frames of comb going into the centrifuge extractor. Not mine, these are from Alyson’s hives, we did…
Harvest Time
We returned to the Apiary Wednesday night to finally take away the full supers of honey. Simon knew he had…
Not *another* queen?
Last weekend Emily and I took our Basic Beekeeper’s exams – and passed. Despite me being very nervous and forgetting…
Well, the merge worked…
It’s a Wednesday evening, but the first time we’ve been able to get back to the bees, what with the…