Recent content by Josie and Chris

Hello, we are new Bees too! We have a new colony of bees in a top bar hive. There is no pollen about at present, so we are feeding sugar syrup. We hope July will be a better pollen month! We live in South Shropshire, grow fruit trees, keep poultry (for eggs) and horses. Love Josie and Chris

I have attend Natural Beekeeping courses and on the 4th June we collected a package of bees. The seller thought we were heading for disappointment as we had a top bar hive, made by Chris to Phil Chandler's design. But supplied the bees anyway. It was pitch dark and there was a rain storm when...

Have you got your bees? I have just bought my first package of bees. We hived them in the dark, did everything wrong, but the bees sorted out our mistakes!