hive – 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=4.7.3 44677425 A Day at The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org/a-day-at-the-sustainable-smallholding/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/a-day-at-the-sustainable-smallholding/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:24:01 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1639 This post has been a little while in the making, and is a result of a telephone conversation with a friend of mine. She had been worried that despite working long hours, she never seemed to get everything done, or even achieve very much. Initially I was going to list all of the things that […]

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Wasps under Control, and Bees Foraging http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wasps-under-control-and-bees-foraging/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wasps-under-control-and-bees-foraging/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:51:24 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1606 It’s been a while since my last post about bees, and wasps, but that’s because things have been going well. My last post on the subject, Wasps, Bees, and doing nothing, told about the problems that I was having. That particular hive was not coping well, and so I opened it up, to find a […]

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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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