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Buying your hive

It is unfortunate that when you buy your first hive typically you don’t have the experience of the range of suppliers or practical hands on knowledge of the various types – you learn by your mistakes. My first hive was … Continue reading

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This could have gone so wrong

Over the last month I had heard so many long term beekeepers explain swollen faces and worse by saying they had not intended to open the hive and then been tempted to do so. I vowed to learn from their … Continue reading

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Hive of activity

When I was 8 yrs old and my Great Grandmother died I can remember Mum pounding some pastry or similar in her grief and saying in a distressed voice ‘WHO will tell the bees?’. Continue reading

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