The Beekeeper's Year
A definitive guide to the beekeeping year. From January through to December, pointers to get you through a beekeeping year.
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How To Make Easy Compost
Follow our step-by-step guide to make your own compost. Plus the benefits of making compost in your own garden, and why...
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Honey & It's Uses Over Time
Honeybees and honey have played an essential part in agriculture, medicine, and culture for centuries...
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Preparing For Winter
In late summer, preparations for overwintering honey bee colonies should begin. It is important to ensure that colonies go into winter in...
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How To Introduce A Queen
When your Queen arrives, she will be mated and in a cage with fondant and between 5 and 10 attendants. Before introducing your Queen...
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Insects & Bugs in UK Gardens: A Year Round Guide
January - Winter Bugs. Ladybirds: Even in winter, ladybirds huddle together in sheltered spots like tree bark...
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Make Your Own Insect Habitat In Your Garden
Help the insects and bugs thrive in your garden by giving them a safe haven to breed and thrive!
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Spring - A Time Of Hope & Starvation
This past month has seen some very varied weather conditions across the country: wet and wild...
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Creating A Bee Haven
Honeybees and bumblebees are the unsung heroes of the natural world, working tirelessly to ensure that our gardens, crops, and food systems...
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Don't Rush In Too Soon!
Some of the country has been blessed with balmy temperatures that may lull you into thinking it's time to start inspecting the bees...
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Beeswax Candles
I often get asked about the scent of a beeswax candle when it's burning, people seem to think it will smell sweet - just like honey...
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Meet The Critters
It’s not just bees, you know. There are around 1,500 pollinator species in the UK, all working to give us flowers and food...
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A Guide To Feeding Birds
As the weather turns colder and daylight hours grow shorter, our feathered friends in the UK need our help more than ever. Providing the right food...
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25 Seeds To Create A Banquet For Bees
Most of England’s green and pleasant land is rather barren to a pollinator. Mile upon mile of cereal monoculture...
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Intrigued by the idea of a hive of your own?
Tamsin Harris has kept bees professionally for many years at her farm in Cornwall and takes a realistic...
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Preparing Your Beehives For February
As January fades into February, beekeepers across the UK brace for what is often the coldest month of the year...
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