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Honey Hostilities

Alan Cole — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:04:59 +0000

This weekend was all about the honey harvest! Anna collected the extractor on Friday afternoon and I’d already put clearer boards on a couple of our hives. The ‘Bedroom’ Hive was huge with 4 completely full supers and a fifth that was half full. ‘Dyfi’ hive had two full supers and ‘Leri’ had a couple...

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Record Breaking Honey Harvest

Alan Cole — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:18:00 +0000

Beekeeping has always been an interesting hobby for us. We never had any intentions of making loads of honey and selling it for a profit. A good job really as Ynyslas isn’t the best place to keep bees and our honey harvest rarely produces much honey. If it were a money-making scheme we would have...

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Honey Stores Replenished

Alan Cole — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 07:44:30 +0000

The good news is that our honey stores have been replenished. Jars and jars of gorgeous golden honey from the bottom of our garden. All stacked up to keep us going. The bad news is that we didn’t get any honey last year, there wasn’t huge amounts this year and there is no guarantee that...

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Honey Harvest 2016

Alan Cole — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:04:15 +0000

Not the greatest of honey harvests this year, but at least we got some. About 12lbs in total which is what we usually get from a single hive here in Ynyslas. The good news this year is that we’ve managed to raise at least one new queen. best of all she has come from a...

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ABKA Honey Show 2015

Alan Cole — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:27:20 +0000

We had another fun evening at the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association Honey Show earlier this week. The format for the event was pretty much the same as previous years with the following categories: Bottle of mead. Two one pound jars of light honey. Two one pound jars of medium honey. Two one pound jars of dark...

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Ups and Downs of Beekeeping

Alan Cole — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:01:16 +0000

Those of you who follow our beekeeping exploits here on the edge of where beekeeping is a sensible pursuit will know that things are never easy. Conditions aren’t ideal for bees in our back garden simply due to the strong winds and the lack of available forage so we have decided to move most of...

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Our Honey Harvest

Alan Cole — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:03:17 +0000

Against all odds we have harvested some honey again. This year our honey has come from our bees in Llandre and as in previous years supplies are very limited.

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Honey Harvest

Alan Cole — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:21:31 +0000

The Honey Harvest has begun. To be honest, we haven’t got much again this year, especially compared to some other local beekeepers – a friend of ours managed to extract 300lb of honey from her hives in just one valley and left every hive with 2 full supers as she got fed up of extracting...

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Honey Show

Alan Cole — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:25:19 +0000

After spending all day baking and decorating cupcakes on a Saturday it was time for the competition at the ABKA Honey Show on Sunday. Actually, we had a few things to do before the show, I went for a run and swim in Machynlleth and Morgan went to Junior Triathlon Training for an hour afterwards giving Anna and...

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Honey Harvest

Alan Cole — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:35:11 +0000

It may be a fairly pathetic harvest in comparison to some, but seeing as we started the year with no bees and had to wait a while thanks to the poor Spring for a couple of nuecs I don’t think we’ve done too badly. Especially seeing as the queen died in one of our colonies...

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