
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 Juli 202418min

Episode 308: Borage Moving Day
In this week's Podcast: We’ve had a mini heatwave, timed to perfection on the day we planned to move our bees to the borage, so we delayed, as we always have our bees welfare upper most in our minds. ...
21 Juli 20248min

Episode 307: A Most Difficult Early Season
In this week's Podcast: I’ve been speaking to a number of other beekeepers over the last couple of weeks, and all agree it’s been one of the most difficult starts to a beekeeping season in many years....
14 Juli 202419min

Episode 306: Borage and Cut Comb
In this week's Podcast: It still doesn’t feel like we’ve really got started with our beekeeping season yet in the next couple of weeks Borage will start flowering and the Summer nectar flow will be in...
7 Juli 202418min

Episode 305: Introducing New Queens
In this week's Podcast: Introducing new queens into queenless colonies can sometimes be a tricky job especially for the inexperienced beekeeper. We’ve tried several different methods and now focus on ...
30 Juni 202415min

Episode 304: Unsettled Weather, Unsettled Bees
In this week's Podcast: I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, it’s raining again. The bees don’t like it, I certainly don’t like it and I’m desperate to settle in to a regular inspection routin...
23 Juni 202414min

Episode 303: More Late May Rain
In this week's Podcast: It’s raining again, the Spring crop is ready for the taking and I’m turning my attention to preparing colonies for splitting in readiness for the Summer borage trip. Hi, I’m S...
16 Juni 202415min



















