[Dummy]

Bucking the trend a little bit.

We Had the first harvest of honey today...

Been a pretty terrible year for my bee's this year but still got a good amount of honey off the little guy's.

Here's the first pot of the year getting pulled

Here's the first batch.

Right enough... because there was a big demand for queen bee's (because of veroah). Bee's were brought over from america, becuase of this they brought over a terrible disease called the American Foulbrood disease 8O We had to kill off two hive's (the strongest two aswell) because they were diagnosed with it. gutted :evil:

Anyhoo.. Now to get started with this year's wine and whiskey :lol: .

 

[_Harriet_]

Lewis,
Do you sell the Honey & if so can you pm me the details
Thank you
Harriet

 

[shamykebab]

Wow, that is cool!

Can American Foulbrood disease spread to native species?

Sham

 

[Carley]

Wow that's a lot of honey! How fab to have your own hives.

 

[_Mary_]

Thats a lot of honey Lewis, I remember you posting not so long back about your hives being devastated by the Verroa mite, I thought the US was suffering from it too, seems like they have a big problem with the other diseased.

Will you be able to build up the hives you`ve lost?

 

[Nealy]

MMMMMMMM Honey! How much for a jar?!

 

[Dummy]

Sadly im not selling them this year because there just is not enough to go around :lol:

Will you be able to build up the hives you`ve lost?

Well Defra was up and 3 hive's tested positive to Foulbrood, so they had to be destroyed including the main hives and all the chamber's :evil:

there is a boy i know not too far from me that had to kill off something crazy like 200 odd hives because they were all positive 8O

Anyone into bee keeping on here?