https://youtu.be/bSXKRKrFw18 I made this video for my Patrons, but decided it might be worth sharing on here too. If you are interested in supporting my work, please find me on Patreon. It's the easiest way to get targeted, ad-free content, and have the chance to be involved with the content I produce. I have some …
Wild-living Honey Bees in January
I visited the Langstroth hives at Selmeston today as we have had some beautiful spring weather and I wondered if the bees were flying. Sure, enough, they were! https://videopress.com/v/ySTaeADc?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Their hive has completely sunken in to the ground so they are using this entrance which they opened last year. There is some very pale pollen …
Swarm update
Here is a little vid about the swarm I collected on Thursday, as well as looking at some beautiful red pollen going in to one of my other hives. Lots of drones too! This is a public-access Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52139312 I tend to leave my swarms for at least 3 weeks before checking them, depending …
It’s been a year!
Ok, shameless plug here. When Lockdown started way back in March last year, I had to cancel all my courses and workshops, and my usual mentoring visits were suddenly compromised, as in spite of completely justifiable "essential journey to tend to livestock" it was still a journey. In addition to my reluctance to increase my …
Ways to be Wayward this Christmas
In January last year, I attended a conference on landscape use and sustainability at Sussex University, and I took away a strong, galvanising feeling of implementing necessary change. Then - bam - the pandemic hit which actually obliged me to pursue the avenues I had pledged to consider. I thought about putting my Introduction to …
Wayward Bee 