Recent content by Hedgerow Honey

This year at the moment I have little enjoyment, it's all damn frustrating and the staff never refuse their wages 🤣

It's a method used by commercial beefarmers, so will never be endorsed by bbka. A case in point, a facebook post was put out about the "local" honey being popular at the breakfast table, but the jar shown is from Cheshire. The last time I looked at a map Harper Adams is well & truly in...

Currently I have 23 pieces of 2022 comb & 274 of 2023 plus 83 rounds in our freezers (3) and 19 full frames. It's the only way to store it without crystallisation. Full frames have to be handled extremely carefully as the cappings just fall off with the slightest knock.

That error unfortunately comes up more often than you would think 🤔.

Even though its only ten minutes travel for us, we won't be going. A show definitely designed for the beginner, to initiate the unitiated. We have colonies really close to the site, I'll give a wave hello if we ever get a break in the weather enough to get on with inspections.

No Still have it for sale Open to offers

Where does the BFA apprenticeship sit in this debate??. I have one just about to finish the three years & another ready to start.

Yes Still have both. Sorry ì meant to reply Yesterday.

Sounds like part or the process I went through to obtain a divorce. The same compromise I offered three years previously was accepted after £7000 in legal fees paid by me. The other party was funded by legal aid !!!.

I've noticed recently two posts on Facebook. One being from a local hobbyist who has taken great exception to a new stockist we have in their town & posted a picture of their raw honey extraction, complete with dog bed next next to the spinner!!. Another is one of the local associations that...

Personally, didn't like the extractors, very well built with what appeared to be top quality materials, but let down by a fundamental mistake that a lot of machines have including our own Fritz. The outlets were too small, they should be at least 60mm but looked to be 40mm.

Generally ours get one packet of Apipasta plus, then a couple of litres of zukan feed from Paul @ Modern Beekeeping. All colonies get one packet of Apipasta vitamins mid winter. Whether it's snake oil or not I don't know, but this regime works for us. I haven't the time to mix feeds anymore...

I usually put them in the freezer with our Queen excluders, what doesn't then break off gets left. As Jenkins says, it doesn't make much difference if the holes are gummed closed, and to be honest there are only a few factory sites we now use boards, most supers are cleared with the blower...

Have you done any wing morphology?, this would be the only method that can reasonably predict the strain you have and is often overlooked in discussion such as this as it takes time, skill and a good computer program, none of which I have myself. Our apprentice just recently finished this...

That looks like quite an old Huski saw??, it’s a long time since that grey top was used, is it a 61 by any chance??.