Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Things have been a little fraught on the bee-keeping front. The weather has been terrible for the bees. We seem to get one or two days where they can get out and fly, followed by 5-6 days of winds and rain that keeps them shut up in their hives. There just hasn’t been enough time...
The Purple Sprouting Brocoli in the garden provided us with plenty of delicious florets earlier in the year and keep us well fed for a few weeks. We then took our eyes off the ball and it went to flower. But that’s not a problem. The bright yellow flowers actually look OK in the garden...
Our bees made the most of the warm weather on Tuesday and decided to swarm. I was just getting ready to go out when I had a phone-call from the neighbours saying I’m not sure what your bees are up to but they seem to be doing something, they may be swarming. Indeed they were...
Ann from the Aberystwyth Bee Keepers Association gave me some goose eggs last time we were up at her house. We went and took them straight from the goose nest and Morgan got to see a day old hatchling while we were there. They are huge, much bigger than a hens egg, and Ann suggested...
After successfully performing artificial swarms for the first time in our beekeeping careers last weekend, this weekend we had to return to the hives to continue the process. Although we had divided the colonies between two hives to produced a parent colony and a swarmed colony, the next step was to move the hive containing the...
At last, the weather has changed and the sun has come out. The temperature even got into double figures today, although according to the weather station it did only hit 14.6°C. It’s supposed to be nice all week as well and will make it into the high teens temperature wise. I managed to spend a...
Busy Busy Busy – We’ve been so busy lately that I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged about many of the things we did last weekend, let alone what we did yesterday. As well as the bee-keeping, moth trapping and planet watching that I did blog about, we also spent Sunday outdoors. First we went to...
We had a good couple of days at the weekend. The sun came out on Friday and I managed to get one step ahead of the weekend by mowing the lawn and tidying the garden. Not a bad start to the weekend and with no Scouts & Explorers this week we had some time to...
Cool, it looks as though we have successfully cultivated diamonds in the garden – They are growing well at the moment. Trouble is, the bees are onto them already and have started mining them!
I was contacted the other day by someone from Rowse Honey telling me that they were planning on planting loads of plants especially for honey bees around the country and asking if I’d like to get involved by helping to spread the word. The idea is that they’ll plant a lavendar plant in community gardens...
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