Beekeeping

Blundering into Winter Beekeepers stress that the transition from Summer to Autumn and Winter is a critical time in the apiary, a point that is fundamental to the colonies very survival. Now, I'm not sure that I class myself as a Beekeeper (with a...

It's around a year now that I have been beekeeping, my colony was initially pretty small and some thought that it wouldn't survive the Winter. But they did and have developed into a robust colony. The time has come to take my first honey harvest....

Beekeeping, guided by instinct more than anything So my little colony of bees has remained a little colony, they've got some brood and made some stores of honey, but they haven't ballooned into the bee mega-city that I hoped for. They were at such...

I've decided to get myself a beehive and document those first steps in beekeeping. It will inevitably be a comedy of blunders, the kids are already offering sarcasm as their encouragement and I'm seriously worried that my usual...