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Me niether. I might think about moving to Surrey, only 6 degrees here today with an east wind.:(

Similar happens to me most years with heather as I often get mixed heather&normal honey in the same frame. On my small scale its...

🙄 I knew there would be one! Just because it's not what you do doesn't mean it makes no sense. Reasons I do this: Gives the bees a...

You could always stick them under the brood box to clean then move them up when the flow starts.

There are beekeepers everywhere, even where I am there are places where bees can make living. @Poly Hive on this forum might be able to...

Considering we are selling a food product to the public we have to be extra careful.

[This is all from memory, so may not be the full detail. It's only just been recovered from whichever filing cabinet my brain stored...

I use sheep wool insulation (sold as) in pillowcases above the crownboard as insulation in winter. It fits snugly around a tub of...

I extract (usually) between /around July/August. The wet supers are wrapped in black plastic bags and stored over winter in a wooden...

lots of ways of doing things I guess, I learned this way from av experienced beekeeper and it gets them all cleaned out before the new...

Split all the brood away. In 24 days there will be no old sealed brood. The new queen is unlikely to have laid quickly enough for there...

Springs almost here. Just hang on in there.

If you have wet supers it is great way to get them cleared up ready for use and gives the bees a bit of food.

Most of the experienced beeks on here wouldn't entertain such ideas this early let alone think of them. Brood is certainly ramping up at...

I've not seen those before. I've not had any major problems with our cats digging up the no dig beds though. Perhaps they just have...