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Maisemore sale from 1st Oct to 30th Nov. Busy writing my shopping list.... :D

So, I currently just sell honey from my own front door. As I'm selling direct to the consumer I don't need to register as a food business. But, this year I have quite a lot of honey so started to think about putting some in my local farm shop, maybe going to a farmer's market, or selling honey...

OK, I've only been keeping bees for 3 years now, so I don't have a huge collection or anything, probably just a pretty ordinary hobby keeper setup, but here you go... I'm lucky to have a very long terraced garden so that the bees positioned on the top terrace don't really interfere with our...

My copy of BBKA News arrived on the doorstep this morning, so I thought I'd browse through it over lunch, and found a full page add for Formic Pro on the back page. Can't find much info on it yet, not even on the maker's website, as it's still 'coming soon', but they claim it 'targets Varroa...

We've had 25-26 °C hot, sunny weather the last few days, so I haven't been surprised to see a beard of bees from one of my hives sitting out on the landing board constantly. They're on double brood, and currently have four supers on, so I'm pretty sure space isn't an issue. As I'm waiting for...

I went to let out the chooks just after 5 yesterday morning and was distressed to see a seagull with one end of a plastic bag tangled around one wing and the other end caught up on the neighbour's TV aerial. It didn't seem to have been there long as several other gulls were still circling and...

This is my first year selling honey. Rather than just do one big extraction this year, I've so far done three because I really wanted to see how the flavour varied through the season; one at the end of May, one at the beginning of July and one in mid-August. The spring honey was a lovely...

Yesterday, whilst I was working, my neighbours saw a lot of activity around my 'B' hive. I put it down to orientation flights, expecting that what they thought was a 'lot' of bees, wasn't that many in reality. However, when I went to check them this morning, there was a small cluster of...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good honey cookbook? I usually just use the web to search for recipes, but my techno-phobic mother needs old-fashioned paper and ink. Ideally I'd like to get her a book focusing on recipes using honey rather than a book that's half full of background...

I'm after a little bit of reassurance as to how to manage the space in one of my colonies after extraction. The background: I got them as an overwintered nuc in April last year (with a 2018 queen). Last year they quickly got up to double-brood (they're Buckfasts), and I kept them on double...

How old do you let a queen get before you replace her? Assuming the bees don't supersede a queen themselves, and assuming that a colony doesn't need requeening to solve problems such as drone-laying or producing nasty bees, do you aim to replace a queen yourself after a certain period of time...

Don't know if anyone else reads National Geographic, but the latest issue has an article called The Secrets of Bees that has some gorgeous photos of a wild bee colony. The photographer managed to get some amazing photographs of bees balling hornets and overheating them as well. Well worth a...