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Not So Busy Bees
Our midwinter check on the Honeydale bees revealed that all the hives are looking very healthy, with nothing to cause any concern.
We’ve provided all the hives with ...
Bee-Ware in Winter
After closing down the hives for winter in November we've been back to see how the bees are doing. Both hives have survived well so far, having been left with almost an entire ...
Bee Update
Today's visit to the bees was thankfully quite straightforward, thanks to both hives and their queens being healthy and performing well. One noticeable point during today's ...
Honeydale Honey
We have now filtered our first harvest of honey to remove any impurities, and after being allowed to settle for a week, the honey has been put into jars. We have chosen not to ...
Show us the Honey
Delighted to report that, excitingly, we extracted the very first batch of honey from one of our original, and very full, Honeydale Farm hives (known as hive 1) this weekend.
A ...
Long Live the Queens
When we carried out our weekly inspection of the seven hives at Honeydale Farm we made some exciting discoveries.
Hive two is doing well. Although the bees have not really ...
New Bees
Chris Wells has been at Honeydale today settling his bees into their new hives. He brought five colonies in nuc boxes last week and let them acclimatise to their new surroundings ...
A Hive of Activity
The Honeydale bees have been busy! Paul and Chris Wells carried out an inspection today and discovered that the ‘special measures’ hive has reacted well to the new ...
Let it Bee!
The two hives at Honeydale have been under close supervision for the past couple of weeks and today we performed another inspection on hive 1, the hive which is not under ...
Bee-Ware
When Paul arrived at Honeydale Farm to check the bees this weekend he found thousands of them swarming all over the apiary and immediately contacted beekeeping mentor Chris ...
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About Us
It's always been part of our vision to have a farm as an extension of the Cotswold Seeds business and in 2013 we bought Honeydale Farm, one hundred acres in the Cotswolds. During the past couple of years we've been making huge progress on the farm and this blog was set up to share this progress with our friends in the farming world.