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Rob's amazing Advent Calendar is all about bees and honey today, and a diferent topic every day, it ti very cool. click here to see his website and if you subscribe you get the calendar every year

Sonia Poulton from Rise BNT breakfast radio asked me to spend 15 minuets to chat about ECO BEEHIVES and bees and stuff. It was fantastic thanx Sonia

Grow your own Podcast THE DIRT asked me to talk about the plight of honey bees and how we can all help , have a listen , they are great, 

With the very long dry summer bees have not been able to swarm.. so we as Gardeners Beehive Beekeepers have had a fantastic summer.

Unlike any conventional beekeeping. 

Here is a Honey box that is just about full, 

removed by me for a customer.

5.5Kg of honey from the box on the left.

Here is 6.8Kg of honey from a 

SUPEER SMALL SUPPER

Yes it has been a very good season for honey , for all the people wanting swarms, not so good., however it comes and go's and this year it was the turn for everyone wanting honey. This is not everyone's game but for the people who do its been great fun.

Here is the Small honeybox , and yes it is smaller than the honey box, and had more honey in!

Home of Winston Churchill

revisiting the home of Peter Rabbit

View up the hill at one of a number that where there.

There are no bees at the Christopher Robin family home on open days. But originally there where. Also the BEE TREE mentioned in the books would have existed but no knowledge of it seems to exist in modern knowledge.

Hi Kevin,

I thought you'd be pleased to hear that I now have bees in the hive I bought from you last Autumn. Just by chance I happened to be in my orchard digging ragwort and thistles out and noticed a swarm in one of my trees, what a beautiful site. 

  I'm assuming that they have swarmed from my original colony in 'The Bee Shed'. So not wanting to leave it to fate and hope they'd find the hive I called a friend in and she scooped them all up and transferred them to the hive. 

Such a fascinating thing to watch as they stragglers walked up the ramp into the hive. They have settled in nicely and there is a lot of activity around the hive now 2 days later.  

Kind regards

??? in Cornwall

Meet my bees is on hold until further notice

If you would like to see MY HIVES IN ACTION I do a MEET MY BEES MORNING on the first Saturday of each month from March until November. 

This covers an over view of HONEY BEES , beekeeping and bee hosting. (Stansted in Essex)

If you have any question about where I'll be or what Ill be talking about please feel free to just phone me on: 0127 9814 301

This is free to attend but booking is essential.

Over view of 2022

Hay Bee-fans, well I will be only referring to the hives I have had direct contact with.

Well with the long dry hot spell swarms seemed to not have stopped earlier than one would expect this year but the drones seemed to have diapered earlier than normal as well.

So in spring we had quite a few really nice strong swarms emerge from surviving winter with still quite a bit of stock.

The normal occasional loss from mice and colones that succumbed  even with honey in the hive, for whatever reason . but these where , I would say lower that average.

But as a net result we have had exceptional honey harvest from some quarters.

And another thing that has been noticed is the size of existing swarms getting ready for winter seem much larger than normal with still loads of activity.

So all in all quote an exiting year.