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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 😊

Can anyone please offer some advice, I've started making some soaps using honey and/or beeswax. My most recent attempt was to make a lemongrass and poppy seed soap, but having got the mix to trace, as soon as I add the lemongrass essential oil it sets hard (within seconds and before I can get...

I was working my way through some of my hives yesterday and found an unmarked queen with no wings (I seem to have had more autumn supercedures than usual, from last years queens- is this a pattern anyone else is seeing?) Anyway, when I went to pick her up to mark her, I realised she didn't...

I've just completed my second inspection of a colony which has no brood and I can't find the queen. However, there are young bees in the colony, there are large areas of polished cells in the frames ready for laying, and no laying workers. So it seems the colony think they have a queen? I've...

I'm just exploring options for making lip balm to sell locally, and I'm struggling to find a source of food grade essential oils in "nice" flavours. The edible options seem to be pretty limited, does anyone have a source they can recommend please? I would like some fruity flavours as well...

Can anyone why has already been through the process of selling cosmetics recommend a cosmetic safety assessor please? There seem to be so many to choose from, it would be great to have a recommendation of an assessor who understands the use of one's own beeswax and/or honey for the CPSR...

I'm just having my first foray into the world of candle making and I'd like to make some to sell. Can I please ask forum members who already produce and sell beeswax candles what type of candles in their experience sell well, pillar candles, container candles, novelty shapes (which) etc? And...

Hi, I have a manual 12 frame radial extractor and a (cheap) electric 4 frame tangential extractor and I've just had the brilliant idea of swapping the baskets so I have an electric 12 frame. It works - almost! Turns out the spindle is about 1cm too short. I want to see if I can source a...

I have a colony with low levels of chalkbrood, would you recommend a shook swarm to replace the comb or could I undertake a Bailey comb change or even demaree to replace the brood comb? Do I also need to requeen? Thanks

I've just done my first inspection, and I have a colony with no brood or eggs. It was a swarm which came in last summer so I have no idea of the history, age of the queen etc but they were a large (and slightly defensive) colony at the end of last season. I didn't see the queen today, there...

I'm in Devon and have a colony which was very strong in the summer, in August I noticed patches of bald brood which didn't seem to align to a diagnosis of wax moth (not linear and the pattern was dotted over the face of the comb). There was also a small amount of sac brood. The local bee...