Honey
When Nicola went to her local honey farm for her annual shopping trip, she was stunned to find out she was limited to only 2 jars of the golden nectar
Tag: bee
The swarm in the hive
An exceptional piece of work – relocating a bee swarm from abandoned hives – and a superb piece of niche blogging by Jean Halford-Thompson describing the steps they went through to catch the queen and move the swarm…
Facts about bees – Wild Bees
Finding fresh honey in a honeycomb is a rare occurence these days, so when Jean came across some stuck to the roof of a neighbours hive she took advantage…
Bottling Honey in France
Yesterday we took another 25 kilos of honey, making a total of 45 kilos of spring honey from four hives. For us, that is a good harvest and certainly the artifical swarms played a part. If the bees swarm, we lose about half the honey…
Read more about collecting and bottling honey from hives in France
Artificial Swarm – Part Two
Well, it worked! We went down to the hives earlier this week and had a quick look. Sure enough, there was a small patch of new brood in a very busy hive. We didn’t look for the queen herself as it seemed pointless…
Read more about establishing an artificial swarm of bees to develop a hive in France
