Bee farmer in the North Cotswolds. Providing Honey, Bees and Beekeeping Courses
Cotswolds England
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I’m out and about today checking food stocks on hives as this is a dangerous time of year for bees. They are building up fast but there’s not a lot out there for them yet.
Our latest YouTube video How Bees Make Honey
Is at:
youtu.be/MYstgNllKiM
I hope you enjoy it
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We spent all day yesterday at the fabulous @BroadwayDeliUk with lots of honey goodies. Met some great people behind the masks.
We are on the telly again this weekend introducing @PrueLeith and her husband John to the wonderful world of beekeeping.
Bees all over the ivy today. Ivy is vitally important to bees as there is very little else that produces nectar at this time of year and the mild weather means they are still flying well.
Tomorrow night (Friday) we are on the telly Channel 5 at 8 pm with the wonderful @PamAyres We had a fantastic day filming with this lovely lady and she even left us with a poem.
We call this section of borage the snack bar. It’s close to the hives but away from the main borage crop. The bees were working it like crazy today.
It’s wedding time. A bride collected 150 of our Meant To Be honey #wedding favours today. Happy honey moon.
Part of the Spring harvest from @conygreefarm Nearly all the frames are as good as this with no sign of rape honey. Far too good to spin most of these will be cut comb. Delicious #honey
The first of our borage fields about to come into flower. Fingers crossed for a good year & lots of lovely borage honey.
Bees collecting pollen today. Good to see them finally getting out after the awful weather of the last week.
If everything goes according to plan we start our courses soon. Carol has been experimenting with new cakes for the 2021 season. So far, so good. Trust me it’s worth booking on a course just for the cakes.
Our overwintered Nucs flying well today. Nearly ready for customers & our new apiaries although we don’t have enough for everything & do need to buy in a few.
This is the view from another of our new apiaries which will be planted with borage for comb honey this year.
@AdamHenson you wanted blossom. Here’s one of our bees working the cherry blossom today.
The cherry tree outside my office looks like it is covered in snow. The gentle hum of honey bees proves it’s blossom. Might be snow next week though!!!
