Bee Blog by Alistair
(a year for a honey maker)
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October 17, 2016I managed to harvest a little runny honey from one of the hives, as you can see from the photo. It's less sweet and...
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September 18, 2016Congratulations to Alistair, his soft set honey win first in the 9 jars of home produced honey, labelled for sale at the Scottish Open...
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July 28, 2016The bees are swarming, going off with a new queen to make a new colony, so I need to capture the swarm and find...
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June 30, 2016The Oil Seed Rape has stopped flowering so Alistair, one of our large animal vets, has taken what honey his bees have collected. This...
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May 23, 2016The yellow fields of Oil Seed Rape are in full flower during May and some of June (about 6 weeks in total), the bees...
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April 18, 2016First opening of my hives this year. I took the opportunity to open my hives on a nice day at the weekend and check to...
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February 18, 2016Third week of February and we see the bees venturing outside and even feeding. The warm sunshine has woken the bees up from their...
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January 14, 2016Bees don't hibernate, they huddle together in a cluster and use movement to generate heat and keep warm in their hives. If I open my...