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Ok. If you live in the far north, there's a good chance your bees require insulation. But, for us southerners, do we over do it on the winter insulation? There's a keeper very close to me runs dozens of colonies in old timber hives. Uses zero additional insulation for winter. No idea of his...

Any Surrey beekeepers here, able to sell me 100kg+ of honey? I'm in Northern Surrey. I'm selling through this year's crop quickly, and need to keep my local customers happy, until the summer. Thanks.

Agree. I work for one of those huge consultancy firms. They like us using the site to promote what we do, but I can't abide it. Most posts are people promoting themselves. "I'm really excited to announce.....", "I'm so humbled to tell you...." Insincere to the point of grossness. Regards the...

As I have poly hives I don't use them, but water expansion tank jackets are commonly used.

Thank you. I see you are correct Wax candles and honey are covered. I will contact my property insurance company about people visiting my house to collect honey.

I'm selling honey and beeswax candles to the locals, via my website, at the front door, in local fairs and delivered to the customers door (by me). It's occurred to me I need public liability insurance, particularly for when people come to my house to collect, at fairs and for the...

Thank you for taking the time to write all that. The fact you are running 40 hives and a very full-time job is impressive. How long did it take to get to that scale?

I'll be there on the Saturday. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the "beekeeping forum" sign.

I have a gasvap and have drilled holes in the back of the floors, with a wooden dowel in each to plug them. Only issue is the gasvap itself. It's just not quite reliable enough for me. It misfires, or I'm just not confident it's actually worked properly, so I end up doing it again, only not to...

With a full-time job and a burgeoning bee operation, I'm always looking to optimise my time at the apiary. What tips and tricks can you share, that have helped you use your time and money in an optimal way?

My local BKA is always keen for potential articles for our monthly newsletter. Would it be OK for me to draft something, e.g. "The challenges of UK National equipment manufacturing" referencing our little exchange here, and have you review it for potential approval, before I submit it? I only...

BFP 12.5KG boxes of fondant Now going, on the cheap. https://www.bfp-xpress.co.uk/products/bfp-fondant-icing-12-5kg

There's an apiary on the isle of dogs (mudchute farm). Alternatively, he could contact the LBKA.

May I ask where you got that pollen identifier book from? Thanks

In the past 48 hours it's been confirmed that North Korean troops have arrived (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vkqwe9wwdo) in Russian-occupied Ukraine - Europe's biggest producer of honey (https://www.statista.com/statistics/812172/global-top-producers-of-honey/). It's looking like the...

Thank you for your reply. A very interesting and valuable insight into the realities of UK beekeeping product production and retail. The 1940's genius that designed the National format, not only created a hive standard that's more difficult to make at home than the Langstroth, and a brood box...

As others have said, get on a 6-month beginners course, run by your local BKA. I wouldn't recommend anyone keep bees without doing that course You can usually tell if a keeper has been on one of those courses, when you get into a chat about beekeeping, or they show you their setup. The...

Nice looking website. Looks to be a little bit easier to locate what I'm looking for, and happy to see you retained those images of bees on the white background. While you're here.... do you have any plans to produce a Nat' Poly Nuc Brood Chamber? I ask as currently Maisemore have the monopoly...

I've sent single jars of honey to friends in Berlin via Royal mail. I filled in a little customs sticker, which is placed on the outside of the parcel. They often taken longer than expected to reach their destination, but I've only had one jar returned, that was due to me making a mistake in the...

Been adding fondant to get hive weight up. Still a few young drones on orientation flights in front of the hives. Doubt they'll be mating.