Hap-bee New Year
Happy New Year! It’s been lovely to have a few days off over Christmas and I hope you have all had a great time relaxing with friends and family.
We are back to work this week with our main job being building hives. As soon as the season starts we won’t have time to build extra equipment so we want to get it done before April time so that we can expand rapidly when the weather improves.
Alongside the woodworking we are also busy in the honey room processing lots of honey for ourselves and for other people as well. Just before Christmas we had our record processing day, managing to fill, label and pack 1,542 bottles of honey for another brand in just one day!!
Back with the hives the bees are remaining active due to the mild weather. The metal grid on the hive to left(above on mobile) is a mouse guard, we add these too all of our hives to make sure mice don’t get into the hives looking for food and damaging the bees.
We have done some early checks for food and added fondant which is basically solid sugar which provides emergency food to the bees who need to do very little processing to make it edible to them.
Next month I will be able to show you how we treat our bees for Varroa Mite which is really important to bees health.
I’m going to leave this blog a bit shorter this month but rest assured we are still busy and if you have any questions about what we are up to or anything about our bees just get in touch!
I feel I ought to mention for those suffering with a cough or cold the NHS now recommends honey and honey and lemon (Link Here) so don’t forget all of our honey is naturally produced with Runny, Soft Set, Heather, Cut Comb and Chunk have absolutely nothing added and is exactly how the bees made it! You could try our Lemon Infused Honey too which has lemon zest and juice added to the honey.
We will be at Market Bosworth Farmers Market on the 22nd January
Thank you as always for your support
Matthew Ingram
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