Second year in Galway with three National hives, and I'll be honest: when I "heft" the back of a hive I have absolutely no idea what I'm feeling. Last year I thought they…
Second year in İzmir with three hives, and yesterday was awful. The hills are bone dry, nothing has flowered since July, and my smallest colony was light, so I made 2:1 a…
First-year beekeeper in Minnesota, two hives from packages in May. This week I've been finding twenty or thirty dead drones in the grass in front of both hives every morn…
First autumn feed here in Yorkshire and I've made a hash of it. Two colonies, both a bit light after a rubbish August, so I mixed up 2:1 — 4 kg of granulated sugar into 2…
One year ago today I installed my first package in a snowy Minnesota April — okay, the anniversary math is off, it was the day I ORDERED them, but let me have this. One c…
Second-year in Galway. At Tuesday's association meeting one of the old hands said "feed early or feed never" and everyone nodded like it was scripture, and I nodded too, …
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