Episode 316: The Honey Room
In this week's Podcast: It’s been a good week, the nucs are growing very nicely and there are more drawn frames than foundation now, it’s looking really positive. Elsewhere, I’ve been preparing the h...
15 Sep 202418min
Episode 315: Moors, Sections and Cut Comb
In this week's Podcast: The bees finally made it to the heather moors, without a fuss or any drama, a nice feeling for a change! We now have most of the Summer honey safely back to the honey room and ...
8 Sep 202417min
Episode 314: Coaching Plus Chat
In this week's Podcast: Our Coaching Plus Group meets once a month to chat and ask/answer questions about all things beekeeping. First however, I give my captive audience a run down of where we've bee...
1 Sep 202424min
Episode 313: Drone Brood Removal
In this week's Podcast: A funny thing happened in the apiaries last week and it got me thinking about what might be going on. We were removing the Drone brood frame as a varroa control mechanism and s...
25 Aug 202417min
Episode 312: Heather Moors
In this week's Podcast: I recently visited the site I intend to use for our heather honey adventure. It’s pretty bleak high up on the moors and first thing in the morning with the mists rolling throu...
18 Aug 202417min
Episode 311: Cut Comb and Sections
In this week's Podcast: Summer has finally arrived, if only for a few days and it all feels a little too late for any kind of honey crop bragging rights, it’s been disappointing. That said, we’re doin...
11 Aug 202419min
Episode 310: Summer, What Summer?
In this week's Podcast: Another week and more rain! I did however, manage to dodge the showers, and checked out swarm colony that we have been coaxing out of a super and into a brood box, and there’s ...
4 Aug 202418min
Episode 309: A Swarm In July!
In this week's Podcast: The plans for the week changed considerably because of the rubbish weather, it’s been cold and wet and yet we found ourselves picking up a swarm from a stack of supers. A swarm...
28 Jul 202418min
