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See this useful new book Honey Show Classes https://tinyurl.com/33ds3tz3

Looks like ling heather to me. It will make a good blend, one part heather to two parts of any other honey. You'll love it.

I use 10-frame castellated spacers in a National super. I use only thin unwired foundation, because I'm concerned about bits of wire getting in my heather honey, which I press out. The bees draw out supers of foundation OK with 10-frame spacing, without making brace comb between the frames. I...

I used to get cut fingers too. I've now removed the sharp corners on the castellated spacers. It's also much easier to load frames to the super.

Air bubbles are a feature of good heather honey.

The honey in the picture looks like it is fermenting. I always blend my heather honey, one bucket of heather to two buckets of whatever else is available, into a soft set blend. I store the jars in a cooI dark barn, and very rarely get jars of heather blend fermenting.

If you are a member of a BKA, your membership should include PLI for events. Suggest you check.

Here are some tips and hints, some of which may help you. We had 30 honey sellers at last week's Conwy Honey Fair. We all did well, especially the two with obervation hives. Good luck! https://www.conwybeekeepers.org.uk/fairs-festivals/selling-honey-at-conwy-honey-fair/

Yes, and it continued for several hundred years. Nowadays, we are quite happy for the indigenous people to trade within the Town Walls, eg. people from Anglesey BKA!

Thanks to everybody who supported the Honey Fair. See pictures here Our collection from stallholders raised a record £1100 in aid of Bees for Development.

The Honey Fair is a unique privilege for us. We are quite happy with weekdays. Saturdays are too busy in Conwy. If the Fair date falls on a Saturday, it moves to Friday, and if on a Sunday it moves to Monday.

Tuesday 13th September Conwy Honey Fair is going ahead, 9am to 4pm, High Street, Conwy, North Wales. Approval has just been given by our local authority. Approx 30 honey sellers are expected to attend, plus plants, crafts, farmers' market stalls. Stall space is full up. The Honey Fair dates...

We have over 25 beekeepers booked in to sell honey at the Conwy Honey Fair on Tues. 13th September.

Our beekeepers' association in Conwy, north Wales hires out extractor kits to members. See Honey extractor kits for hire This is an easy way to get started. Other BKA's probably do the same.

Heather honey on my hives at home today, a mile from the heather on the Carneddau, north Wales. Better than expected.

Memorial to Gwenllian at Kidwelly Castle.

We're walking the Wales Coast Path. We visited Kidwelly Castle last month, very impressive. Hope to reach Swansea next month, then just 100 miles to finish at Chepstow.

Which castle?

I've never much liked the sharp corners on National hive castellated super frame spacers. I quickly remove the corners with an angle grinder. The supers are safer to use and easier to load with frames. One for the manufacturers to consider, maybe...

No heather honey in my hives at home yet. Last year there was heather honey at home by 4th August.