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 started to fill their first super, the queen is laying eggs and bee numbers look good. Hive 1 is doing so well that ...

Wet weather delayed episode 4 of our crimper roller experiment, but we finally found a warm, dry day to give it another go. Sam Lane talks about how successful the roller was this time around, and compares the freshly flattened part of the crop with one of the previously rolled ...

It seems that everyone’s talking about mob-grazing these days - a term used to describe a method of grazing and frequently moving livestock systematically around a field to graze different sections in rotation. It’s cheap, as a managed diverse ley reduces the need for inputs, chemical ...

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 before installing the hives. Now the hives have been built, the frames have been successfully transferred from the nuc ...

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 queen, introduced earlier this month. She is healthy, laying lots of eggs and with plenty of brood present... ...so ...