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Any recommendations on how to find one of these?? 😉😉😂

There's a lovely recipe on this forum, search for fudge and its the dark honey fudge shared by drstitson. Make sure you get it hot enough and then beat it when it cools. It took me a few attempts 😊

Packaging, not packing 😏

Can anyone recommend some packaging for fudge? 100g and/ or 150g (which do you sell?). I'm getting fed up of buying bags to try, none of which seem to be quite the right size/ type. Thought I'd stop wasting my money and just ask for recommendations 😊

The limit for Heather honey is 23% (as per the honey regulations), so if its Heather honey- all good 😊

That's pretty much the same as this fudge recipe, but the fudge has 300g of honey added, so even sweeter than the tablet recipe!? 😳

I know this is an old thread but I have just stumbled on it when searching for a good honey fudge recipe. I've made the recipe according to drstitson, and it has turned out lovely and smooth, BUT (and this is probably a really stupid question based on my non- consumption of fudge generally) is...

Put on my big girl pants (and 3 pairs of trousers, a t shirt and 2 sweatshirts, 2 pairs of gloves (covered in Bee-Quick), and even a woolly hat) and went to inspect the bees from hell. As anticipated they tried to kill me, but didn't manage to get me through the layers. Phew. Now I need to...

Yep, I lost 4 (out of 13) queens last year. Never again

Oh yes, the same here. July in my garden apiary is very different to my 'atop de hill' apiary which is 2.5 miles away (almost vertically) 😊

This weekend. The flow here stopped almost a month ago (*about the same time i hastily ordered more supers and frames for fear i was going to run out!), I'm hoping they will have capped what they had and it'll be ready to extract 🤷‍♀️ *Sod's law - the same rule which has meant it's rained...

Yes, for that I don't risk introducing direct, I always pull out a nuc and introduce to that first, then remove the original queen and unite with the nuc. I haven't dared to risk introducing a new Q direct into a stroppy full hive. Maybe I'm just over cautious?

I've had that advice from BMH before too, but the thought of having to go through the colony to remove the queen, then again to remove EQCs (now queenless and even more aggressive) fills me with horror so I always introduce the new Q to a small nuc first, just 2-3 frames, then unite after...

Try marigolds under nitriles, that is almost bomb proof. I've even resorted to wearing a beanie under my hood. Better to be melting than stung all over. I have 2 colonies I'm currently dealing with (swarms i collected) and its the most unpleasant experience. Not ashamed to admit I have...

Yep, that does it 😂. I also have to deploy my husband's lifting skills from time to time. He doesn't get involved in any other aspects of beekeeping, only moving hives or heavy supers (and then only if they are stacked too high) due to his nasty reactions to stings ( and I'm not referring to...