Siobhan and I did some cool beekeeping at 7:45 this morning.We confirmed that our hive 3 was definitely queenless and merged these bees with hive 1 which was queenright. If all goes well this will give us a strong colony to overwinter for next year. Despite being without a queen for a month the bees […]

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It’s a pivotal moment in the beekeeping year. Our colonies have used the spring and early summer to build up their size, with the aim of maximising the number of foragers ready to bring in a summer flower nectar for our honey harvest. Fingers crossed that swarming is now finished for this year and that […]

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Siobhan and I did an impromptu bee inspection today. It’s been 10 days since we last looked at our colonies and bearing in mind we had a suspected queenless colony to merge, we decided that we ought to get it done before the colony deteriorated. The upshot was that these insects have outwitted me yet again. […]

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Siobhan and I on Wednesday removed the empty feeders. Each colony has had a 1 kg boost of sugar. We transferred  the swarm colony from its nucleus to a brood box. These bees have made good progress in making comb and the queen has started to lay. We didn’t merge our two weaker colonies as […]

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Our AGM was held on Saturday @ 2pm at the same time as the plant and book sale up on the vegetable field.  You can download the report here

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After the AGM last Saturday John and I fed each national hive with a spring mix of 1kg of granulated sugar dissolved in a litre of water.  We meet again tomorrow at 5:15. The plan is to move our swarm from its nucleus into a brood box and merge our two weakest colonies together. We […]

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Our AGM is this Saturday @ 2pm at the same time as the plant and book sale up on the vegetable field. Once this wind has blown its way through we should have a reasonable but of weather for it. Last years minutes are here. More details on our Facebook page 

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