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The Bees This Week
Paul checked out the bees again on Friday. One hive was left untouched as planned, while the new queen is being raised, but a full inspection was carried out on the second hive. ...
It's Swarming Up
Last week we reported that the bees at Honeydale were behaving rather strangely with one hive bursting with bees and the bees in the second hive preparing to ...
Bees Bee-Hiving Badly
Like many of us, the bees in the Honeydale hives appear to be extremely confused by the weird weather we’ve been seeing lately. One minute it’s warm and sunny and ...
Soon Bee Spring
We’ve been feeding the Honeydale bees on sugar fondant over winter. The sugar water we use over the summer promotes the wrong activity in the Queen, leading her to think ...
The Not-So-Bleak Midwinter at Honeydale
Dr Richard Broughton from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has been on one of his regular visits to update the bird survey. He confirmed that all the food we’ve planted ...
Honeydale Video Blog Part 3 - Beekeping Part 3
The third instalment of our Honeydale Farm video blog shows our bees arriving at the farm! Paul talks us through the details of transferring the bees from where they were ...
Honeydale Video Blog Part 2 - Beekeeping Part 2
In the second of our regular video blog updates from Honeydale Farm, Paul talks to us about the second stage of installing hives into your farm. Paul talks us through the ...
Honeydale Video Blog 1 - Beekeeping Part 1
In the first of our Honeydale Farm video blog updates, our resident beekeeper Paul Totterdell introduces us to the idea of beekeeping, and takes us through the first part of ...
Well Bee-Hived
Our resident ‘Bee-Man’ Paul Totterdell spent a couple of days in his back garden this week building beehives from a flat-packed kit comprising many pieces of wood and ...
Bees for Honeydale
I’ve always been keen to keep bees so when Cotswold Seeds acquired Honeydale Farm in 2013 I was a big step closer to realising a lifelong ambition, so I’ve been ...
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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.