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Elusive Queens, Super Additions, and Some Pesky Wasps
At Paul’s inspection this week, the surviving WBC was observed to be doing well, with lots of eggs and brood present. He still couldn't find the queen but the quantity of ...
Lost to the Wasps
Sad news this week. On our last inspection there were eggs and brood in WBC Hive 2 but we had to close down the hive entrance to help against wasp attack, as well as putting out ...
Wasps Up
For the first time I was able to spot our elusive queen in the first WBC hive, and capture her in a photo!
There was also plenty of bees and brood present so this hive is ...
Bee Quiet
Our latest bee inspection took place under conditions which were comfortably cooler and calmer than last time.
We have some excellent news from the first WBC hive. The polished ...
Queen Mothers
During our last inspection, the first WBC hive we looked at (on the right in the photo below) was missing its queen but fortuitously we found her on the ground. Sadly this was ...
A Cautionary Tale
Our bee inspection last week took place in thirty degree heat and proved rather eventful!
The first thing we noticed when we arrived were lots of bees hanging from the front of ...
Bee Prepared
My beekeeping mentor Chris Wells always says that ‘the world does not need more keepers of bees, it needs more beekeepers’. It’s easy to see how keeping bees ...
The Bee-ginning of a New Season
We carried out the first full inspection of 2017 on the Honeydale beehives this week and there’s lots to report.
The day before the inspection, Paul checked on all the ...
Bee-fore and After!
Full inspections of the bees will start again next month, when the weather has warmed up a little more. In the meantime we checked the winter food stores again this weekend, ...
Storm Doris Raises the Roof...
...off one of the Honeydale bee hives! We carried out an inspection on the farm the day after the storm and the top of the National hive, which was recently relocated to the farm, ...
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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.