Date: January 19, 2025 Location: The Bee Shed and Workshop Weather: Mild winter afternoon, 8°C As we inch closer to spring, it's time...

Date : January 13, 2025 Location : Kent Apiary Site "Mound Apiary" Weather : Crisp winter afternoon, Clear Sky 5°C Cherry Orchard Mound...

Essential Candle Safety Tips for Your Home

As winter continues, keeping our bee colonies healthy and well-fed is essential. The colder months present various challenges, such as...

We make two strengths of sugar syrup at Foxes Honey. An almost 2-1 syrup for Autumn and a weaker one for Spring to simulate an early...

May has been a busy month in the apiary. Almost overnight, we found all our colonies were on the increase, some swarm control measures we...

Today we moved another five hives to the Orchard Apiaries. The weather was appalling. It constantly rained. Andy G and I were soaked;...

Last Weekend we found one of our hives empty of bees. It had been under attack from wasps in late September, So we reduced the entrance...

Today we had a fantastic day at Herne Bay Artisan Market. It was freezing, and the sleet kept off until the very end. We thank the public...

Last Market Before Christmas.

Today Andy G and I moved 2 hives from Herne Village apiary to one of our farm apiaries. On arrival we opened up the hive entrances and...

Elaine and I had a fantastic day at Herne Bay farmers market, the weather was perfect, we met lots of interesting people both public and...

Today we checked all the bee hives to make sure they had some fondant available, the weather was terrible it rained continuously Elaine...

A New Apiary

Finally, some eggs in my first split of the season. The queen has finally started to lay, and soon this hive will be full of new bees...

Today our honey sampling kit arrived from The National Honey Monitoring Scheme their aim is to use honeybees to monitor long-term changes...