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A regular customer of mine has moved from Worcestershire to the Amber Valley in Derbyshire and seeks a supplier of circa 48 lbs of honey per order, four or so orders per year. The criteria is: 1lb jars, metal lids, runny (summer) honey Price to be negotiated. If you fit the bill, let me know...

A regular cash customer has moved from the Worcester area to Derby and seeks a new regular supplier of local (Midlands/Derbyshire) honey. Able to give an approx week to ten days order notice / lead time. The requirement is for: - 1lb jars - metal lids - runny (summer) honey - batch size circa...

I haven't had cause to access the Dave Cushman website as maintained by Roger Patterson for some time, but this evening it appeared to be unavailable . . . Does anyone have any light to shed on this or have I just tried to access it whilst it is down for maintenance?

I thought that this might be of interest: Technicolour OSR Not sure if the bees might be confused, or end up producing designer Pantone honey. Definitely an opportunity in the future to sow two, three or four colour graphics for the advertising revenue or just plant rude words in Chinese...

Why populate the pages with information at the bottom so that it doesn't show up on the average screen. Obviously I found it but had been mislead by the "comparison 0" message at the top. Sort of indicating, this late at night, that there were no results to be found. Whoops!

Arrived to bee keep at 1pm, having taken an Amoxycillin capsule at 12pm. It was raining when we set out, so I had a waterproof jacket over my bee suit. By the time we got to the bees, the rain was over but I kept the jacket on. It was doubtless moist on the inside as it was a little warm. The...

I read this description in at honey-bees-etc and suddenly a good idea seemed not too clever. A case of a good idea spoiled perhaps by it's execution perhaps. Parallel extractor: Frames loaded flat with bottom bars toward centre, very efficient. Takes deep and shallow frames. What does the team...

Admin, and others that run VBulletin fora, a question regarding overnight performance problems on a VBulletin version 4.1.8 forum with a wide geographical user base. Around about 2am the performance becomes a bit variable and occasionally double posts and weird dialogues come up when attempting...

Noticed while on holiday near Madrid: 250g of most honey from the region, in a local supermarket, E2.95 or E11.80/kg However 259g of honey with propolis came in at 259g for E4.24 or E17.00/kg. I also noticed that sales of 1kg jars were very common.

Frequently when buying Standard National frames we specify a T1 or T2 topbar, but Thorn(e) sells just 14x12 and we assume that from year to year we accept that the product is the same, yet frames bought in December 2010 appear to have T2 topbars and in December 2011 T1 topbars. This is more...

I am intending to do a limited amount of queen rearing this year and of course marking came to mind. As with warm way, cold way discussions, I realise that there will be a polarisation of pinions out there. Some might be stood upright and some might have fallen on their backs by now and so...

How many myths have you read or heard self-professed experts spouting to the world at large and will you care to share them?

UK bee breeding programme I quite agree. I understand that in the last year or two a lot of packaged bees came into the UK from Australia, but now that SHB has been confirmed in Australia and all bee imports from that area subsequently banned by both the EU and USA/Canada, I can't help but...

I don't think so Daren. Because it would have missed a lot and ended up being restricted to the thoughts of the original poster that set it up. Computing, shooting, drinking and dogs. Not quite as rich perhaps, but yes more easily digested.

Are there any specialists out there that can tell me more about the technical difference between full-fat and de-fatted soya flour? I believe that it has something to do with the method of extracting the oil, by pressing or using solvent. So tell us something about it and is it the type of oil...

No suggestion that PaleoPerson has any connection of course. Now you wonder why your products don't realise their true value. http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/hot-topics/how-to-create-real-raw-paleo-honey/?PHPSESSID=da57d5fe2fcb59968cb30b22f6394508 Not so long to the rape being in flower now folks.

What do others think about the practice of sharing out apiaries with other beekeepers? Obviously the dynamics change with each new beekeeper that has bees in residence in such an arrangement. What are members personal views about the pros and cons of such an arrangement. Am I a bit of a loner...

Congratulations to Anne of the Farneham Beekeepers, awarded the MBE for services to bee keeping, and in particular swarm catching in the New Year's Honours.

Just over a month ago. I arrived at an out apiary to be met by my host who enquired delicately if bees defecated? They certainly do, it's known by some as yellow rain . . . His face and tone were very serious and he enquired if what was on these two cars might be bee poo? He also explained...

This is where the box is put together, whether super, national or 14x12 brood box. I don't make national brood boxes, but the instructional pdf attached shows how I go about it all. The diagrams in the pdf are 20% of drawn size. if you require full size .png or Inkscape svg imagery, contact me...