October 17, 2016

I managed to harvest a little runny honey from one of the hives, as you can see from the photo. It's less sweet and more...

September 18, 2016

Congratulations to Alistair, his soft set honey win first in the 9 jars of home produced honey, labelled for sale at the Scottish Open National...

July 28, 2016

The bees are swarming, going off with a new queen to make a new colony, so I need to capture the swarm and find it...

June 30, 2016

The Oil Seed Rape has stopped flowering so Alistair, one of our large animal vets, has taken what honey his bees have collected. This is...

May 23, 2016

The yellow fields of Oil Seed Rape are in full flower during May and some of June (about 6 weeks in total), the bees are...

April 18, 2016

First opening of my hives this year. I took the opportunity to open my hives on a nice day at the weekend and check to see...

February 18, 2016

Third week of February and we see the bees venturing outside and even feeding. The warm sunshine has woken the bees up from their winter...

January 14, 2016

Bees 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 hives...