My sister has been married 20 years and they were having a party yesterday... so there was wild dancing to the ceilidh band and afterwards more wild and strange dancing to David Bowie and other odd choices. I met Mark the Oxfordshire beekeeper.
It is still high season for the bees, so I inspected a few hives before we went and we didn't camp overnight, so that I could go through the rest of the boxes today.
Good news is that 3 of the nucs are ready to go - 2 National and a Langstroth. I'm going to get a move on because what happened last year to some of the nucs was they outgrew their boxes and swarmed before I could sell them!
I've brought back the 3 full supers to extract and found that my student has brought back the extractor with a sample of her honey. I feel proud.
It is still high season for the bees, so I inspected a few hives before we went and we didn't camp overnight, so that I could go through the rest of the boxes today.
Good news is that 3 of the nucs are ready to go - 2 National and a Langstroth. I'm going to get a move on because what happened last year to some of the nucs was they outgrew their boxes and swarmed before I could sell them!
I've brought back the 3 full supers to extract and found that my student has brought back the extractor with a sample of her honey. I feel proud.
