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  • Recipe Beekeeping and Spring Grilled Dinner
    Beekeeping and Spring Grilled Dinner
    So. I've been busy. Busy as a bee you might say. The days have been dawning with perfect spring weather (a welcome change after all the rain, then blistering heat we've had). Cool, crisp, sunny. The perfect combination for cleaning[...]
  • Recipe Feeding the Bees
    Feeding the Bees
    When checking inside my horizontal top bar hive the other day I found this, an empty comb.  Not sure what was going on, I showed the comb to my neighbor, an experienced beekeeper.  In his opinion, this showed that the bees seemed to be[...]
  • Recipe The bees have arrived
    The bees have arrived
    This morning we welcomed 10,000 or so new members to our family. At 6 am the phone rang. It was the local post office informing us that our bees had arrived. They seemed rather eager for us to get there as soon as possible to remove them from[...]
  • Recipe Calling All Beekeepers
    Calling All Beekeepers
    Earlier this month, I called on all chicken keepers to share their experiences and thoughts about keeping chickens.  The responses were so good, I wanted to do it again–this time with you beekeepers. I’ve got a couple of[...]
  • Recipe Horizontal Top Bar Beehive Update
    Horizontal Top Bar Beehive Update
    Last year I built a Top Bar Beehive and waited impatiently for a swarm of bees to admire my construction and lay claim to it. Well, I didn’t really think that would happen (???), but I was hoping to get a call from the local[...]
  • Recipe Snow and Honey
    Snow and Honey
    Monday was a day famous for Snow, but for me it was also about honey. I visited Linda who has recently started keeping bees. We processed some honey and she very kindly gave me a pot of golden sweetness at the end. I learnt about mites, and[...]
  • Recipe Fruitful Trees
    Fruitful Trees
    Last Friday I went to a Kew Wassail in aid of making the apricot tree fruitful for the year. It was very exciting because I also met a woman with a sheep, and another woman who has a spinning wheel - and knows how to use it - so I think it was a[...]
  • Recipe Back with the bees
    Back with the bees
    I don't have photos this time but have been bee-servicing again. This time we were just scraping honeycomb wax from the wooden frames so they can be reused for the coming year and the new bees. Bees are in a bad way and unlike other creatures in a[...]



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