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First honey harvest
honeycomb

First honey harvest

After keeping bees for a little over a year, last weekend we were finally able to take our first proper harvest from one of the hives. Smallholding can definitely be a game of patience sometimes. We’re glad to say that the wait was worth it as the honey, which

Matt & Gillian Sep 19, 2016 • 1 min read
Swarming bees
bees

Swarming bees

It's been six months since we did our last full hive inspection so the recent warm weekend gave us a long-awaited chance to see what the colony had been up to over the winter. The bees had ideas of their own though; rather than waiting for us to open up

Matt & Gillian May 10, 2016 • 3 min read
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