How did the bees keep warm over winter?
With hot water bottles! No not quite…
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Honey is an essential ingredient in many of our products as it's renown for its skin conditioning, curative and moisturising properties. Much of our honey comes from our very own bees and we are often to be seen donning the full beekeeping regalia to check how our hives are getting on.
Here we share news from our hives and thoughts about the plight of bees in general.
With hot water bottles! No not quite…
How did the bees keep warm over winter? Read More »
So, which to choose? The triangle? The square? Or the hexagon? Which one is best? Here’s where our Roman, Marcus Terentius Varro made his great contribution. His “conjecture” and that’s what it was, “a mathematical guess” proposed that a structure built from hexagons is probably a wee bit more compact than a structure built from
Why do bees always make hexagons and never squares or triangles ? Read More »
We are really delighted to be adding local beeswax from Jones the Farmer to our luscious lip balms this year.
Award Winning Beeswax Read More »
Worker bees, uncapped healthy white brood and capped brood where the grubs turns into new bees. What a lot of yellow pollen this bee’s collected!
Our bizzy buzzy bees Read More »
Two happy honey harvest helpers. We really hope to be selling our honey online next year so fingers crossed for a bumper crop.
The Honey Harvest October2013 Read More »
Our bees have survived the long winter with their memories intact. We hoped they would be okay as we’d insulated the hive and made sure they had plenty of food so death through starvation wouldnt be an issue. This was our first peep at them on sunny Saturday. The foraging bees were out and very
We’ve got a little helper today. Douglas is busy putting beeswax sheets into wooden frames he has assembled for the top boxes of our beehives. Beekeepers call these boxes “supers,” and they are where the bees store all the honey. I hope we get a bumper crop of honey this year!
Making frames for the supers Read More »
I’ve just been to have a very quick peep at the bees and all is well in the hive. I have given them some Ambrosia fondant which is a premium bee food suitable for winter feeding. It’s made up of a mix of natural sugars which closely resemble nectar. I cut a small rectangle from