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…
Re-homing and feeding.
Another short, photo-less update. We returned to the bees this evening, in between the showers, to find that the Nuke…
Where the swarm underneath came from?
We tried to do some work on the hives this afternoon, but as well as being rainy, it was also…
Success, sort of…
Returning to the hives this week, with both daughters, we were full of trepidation. Had last week’s efforts been successful?…
Re-Queening and Re-Homing.
Last week I didn’t bother with an Update, as I didn’t visit the bees. The Trainee Beekeepers did a session…
Where have all the queens gone?
Simon was holding another training session for this year’s intake of new beekeepers to the association, so the girls and…
The Even Luckier Beekeeper?
I started this Blog, titled “The Lucky Beekeeper”, because I just built the hive, and a swarm moved in a…