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Seen at a National Trust property in Cornwall, local wildflower honey for £7.50 for half a pound. Can anyone beat that?!

The OSR is just coming into flower in this area and each year I resist the temptation to take my hives to the crop because of the risk of spray damage and possible colony loss. I wonder what arrangement those of you who do take advantage of this crop have with the farmer. Do you rely on them to...

Does anyone know of a good source of cosmetic jars for hand creams and the like. Making polishes and hand cream is a new venture for me so any general information would be very welcome. Recipes are plentiful, in this forum and elsewhere on the net, but I am finding the packaging and marketing...

Intending to double-up on brood space, I added a second brood box to each of my two national hives a fortnight ago with frames of foundation on narrow plastic ends. Both hives had 6 frames of brood at the time and were doing well. I looked in today and found very little drawn foundation in the...

I have made a couple of new hive stands and think I might have made them too tall. The legs are 17 ins high so when the hive is assembled on the stand the top of the brood box (national) is some 30 ins high. This would seem about right but if I double up on brood boxes and add three supers...

With Christmas looming once again I wonder which books are most current and would be recommended for a beekeeper of many years experience at the 2 or 3 hive level who is now wanting to update his knowledge and is considering an increase to half a dozen hives or so, rearing queens on a small...