Apiary Diary

September activities – Beautiful beeswax – Beeswax in the hive – Uses for beeswax – Beeswax vs. soy and paraffin – Processing beeswax –...

August activities – Top bar hives explained: Hive construction - Colony organisation – Hive management - Honey extraction – Finding out...

The season’s first honey – How bees make honey – Honey varieties – How we harvest our honey naturally - Keeping it local – A ban on...

Managing new split colonies - June swarm collections - An unusual bee rescue - Callouts and conversions - Bee identification - Verge...

Spring slow to arrive - ‘No Mow May’ campaign Time to divide hives - The season’s first swarm collection Spring slow to arrive After a...

The apiary in April - strange weather, and preparing for the swarm season

Surviving winter floods and ‘robbing’ - New Top Bar Hive - Hive observations Surviving winter floods and ‘robbing’ Happily, all the...