Buzzing with success

Buzzing with success

Award winning honey and beeswax Wow! September was a busy month with two big honey shows – the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens and the Warwickshire County Show. It was a lot of meticulous work preparing all my entries, but it was worth it. I came...
Honey, I love you

Honey, I love you

Honey, I love you Our family are bee lovers and adore honey! And yes that was part of my motivation to become a beekeeper. In my first few years with only a couple of hives, I found it hard to produce enough to keep my family satisfied. Now, with 15 hives, my bees...
World Bee Day

World Bee Day

World Bee Day 🐝 – Saturday 20 May Celebrating our favourite day of the year, and this year’s theme is all about bee-ing engaged! It’s a fabulous opportunity to acknowledge the critical role bees play in our lives. These amazing little creatures pollinate around...
How do you move a honeybee colony?

How do you move a honeybee colony?

A van full of bees! The hive barrow (and Mark) in action The new apiary site – work in progress How do you move a honeybee colony? Well with great care is the obvious response! Moving boxes each containing 10-15,000 stingy insects is a bit scary but if you plan...
Honey & lemon cup cakes

Honey & lemon cup cakes

Award winning honey & lemon cupcakes (third prize in the Warwickshire Beekeepers County Show!) Honey & lemon Cup Cakes Ingredients for cakes:150g (6oz) butter, softened100g (4oz) caster sugar50g (2oz) floral honey from a local beekeeper :-)Finely grated zest...
World Bee Day

1st National Honey Day

First National Honey Day      Let’s celebrate! Friday 21 October is the first ever National Honey Day in the UK. The aim of the day is to promote delicious local honey and to highlight the increasing problem of fake ‘honey’.Honey has been used worldwide for...