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A brief input...we are started heather harvest today so will not be posting much until at least the end of October. First thing. I know the Portuguese supplier AND his supplier. The supplier at origin is a good one but we had similar...though far less severe..issues this year. We are of the...

Jolanta uses a Brinsea one....its absolutely fine. No need to worry about degrees of satisfactory..good enough is good enough....and going even finer in temp control just increases cost for no perceptible gain.

Reports now coming in of a really good heather week up to Monday all over the north and west of the UK. Up our way it ground to a halt and has turned very autumnal now....all our east and south heather past its best...northwest heather still good but no flow since the heatwave went past (heather...

These will not be 40 quid queens...no idea who the importer was but the careful hand written labels indicates a well organised albeit probably small scale producer. Not all that lucrative I can assure you. They will have cost from around 15 quid upwards to buy..and trade price in the UK around...

Grade is '[white flint'. It tells you that on the product spec and on the pallet labelling. There are many others. Can also vary a little even within that by how much cullett is in the mix. (tends to be visible as a subtle greenness when a lot of jars are stacked together, invisible as a single...

Bit of a red flag there. Most, if not all, honey jars are made from a grade of glass called white flint. It is specifically a ONE use only type of glass. I know a lot of small producers take jars back and reuse them, but it is a high risk strategy for a few pence saved. On use or reuse...washing...

For the Bell yes...it is now quite well through..the heat has crucified it but where it is under trees it is still ok. In the driest areas the ling is holding for water. Having looked as if it would be early it has now lost about 10 days. In the moister areas in the east it is about 5% out...

Of course...but will not post that on open Forum. PM me. Very much depends what you have to sell...different buyers for different honey..and blossom honey is a bit friendless at the moment due to high stock levels at the packers.

Its the second wet morning in a row here so here goes. Would suggest..without actually seeing it so with a pretty major health warning attached to the advice...that others telling you to leave it alone might be the best course of action. I know a lot of people make big things about their...

For export in bulk forget it unless you can do a full load. Even then its not that simple. You don't specify what type of honey either. Important to remember that normal blossom honey is a commodity product in Europe and the prevailing bulk rates there are way below UK rates...in fact about...

I was in touch with the vendor (and the beekeeper whose gear was seized) over a protracted period prior to the selling of it. I understand it was all sold to a single buyer. (Not me!)

Just a quickie at this silly hour of the evening...been on the go since 6am. These early season queens are all mated to VSH Buckfast drones in Italy...so the offspring tend to be a little yellower than the home raised, which do not come on stream until mid June. If you want to know the origin...

The points are largely a British peculiarity. We get our frames made without. However some of the makers of made up frames see these points on UK frames and think they are doing us a good turn adding them. As these frames are generally ungrooved the teams making them up bash on and often dont...

Active extensively in the Lothians. Early flowering fields are largely a waste of time and mostly serve to get the inexperienced all excited. We have a lot of bees there and in all honesty the number with that amount of brood is ver few...they barely have a bee hatch yet despite coming through...

People who make ad hom attacks deserve them back. Stop playing the victim...read the torrent of your own (increasingly disagreeable) posts erecting straw men opponents who don't actually exist. You are attributing all these negative intentions against all who disagree with you...yet they are...

We got 40kg of these from Frank Shaw not a year ago. Did not ask where they are made....the bees dont ask me either. Quite a lot of mis-stamped ones, maybe 5%....not big deal.

Buy the zinc plated panel pins...a lot cheaper than japanned....we only use the black ones (19g 20mm) for wire anchoring or pinning through very thin wood. 18g 25mm zinc plated panel pins.......can go down to the 20mm if you are using DN1 or SN1 frames...or for nailing in wedge bars if you have...

At the time they did not exist..this was a long time ago I think... Mobus has been away from there for somewhere close to 40 years. Did not take Nationals either due to long lugs OR you had to have a very thin rebate (as was the case on the very first Nat Poly boxes to make them compatible with...

Just want to have a quick come back on that one. Board membership of the BFA is a voluntary position, including the chairman. Alex is a paid part time employee. 'Another' is also a volunteer I understand. We currently have a vacancy for Margaret's former role, and apart from a bit of...

I was somewhat in error...only partially. Put my hands up on that Patrick. I don't see a conflict of interest there as it is being done by three individuals at arms length....not a BFA function at all. Steps are being taken to ensure that conflict of interest issues are addressed and complied...