swarming – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 44677425 Honey Bees For Sale In Lincolnshire 2012 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-for-sale-in-lincolnshire-2012/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-for-sale-in-lincolnshire-2012/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:46:40 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1903 All of my bee colonies have overwintered successfully, so once again I will be selling my surplus honey bee colonies this year. The colonies are naturally occurring swarms from my own colonies, that I will have housed on clean foundation, fed, and brought on until they are ready to be sold. The advantages of this […]

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Wasps, Bees, and doing nothing. http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wasps-bees-and-doing-nothing/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wasps-bees-and-doing-nothing/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:00:57 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1533 I’m having a very uncomfortable evening, at least mentally uncomfortable, thinking about my bees. The problem is wasps, as has been the case, at this time of year, for the last three years. Part of the problem is the fact that my property has become a great habitat for wasps. Lots of trees, banks, fruit, […]

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Skeps and Swarms http://sustainablesmallholding.org/skeps-and-swarms/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/skeps-and-swarms/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:11:31 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1446 I’ve not posted for a while. Part of the reason is that I did a skep making course last weekend, to make it easier to catch bee swarms. Since then I have been catching up with my planting out, and thinking through a new system for growing some of my food, which mixes small scale […]

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Two Queens, or Two Swarms? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-queens-or-two-swarms/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-queens-or-two-swarms/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:24:16 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1443 Another hectic day makes me think back to April and thinking that I was getting ahead. Foolish. Again it was bees that took up most of my time. I also saw two queens within what acted like a single swarm, rather than two swarms. This is how the day went. After my early chores, I […]

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Two Swarms, and a non-Swarm http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-swarms-and-a-non-swarm/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-swarms-and-a-non-swarm/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:49:29 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1437 Although I have stacks that I want to post about, once again, today it’s bees, and swarms again, and I’ve spent the whole day, in a bee suit, in the sun, and I feel like I’ve got a hangover before I sink the first glass of red. Today was not all successful, and I wanted […]

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