bees – 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 Willow Trial Update http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:44:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3730 Earliest Flowering Willow Trial Last year I published a post about My Earliest Flowering Willow, and was surprised to see that the willow that flowered earliest for my was a hybrid called ‘Lapin’. I was up in the Forest Garden again today, ‘weeping’ at the damage done to my willows by rabbits, and noticed that […]

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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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My Earliest Flowering Willow http://sustainablesmallholding.org/my-earliest-flowering-willow/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/my-earliest-flowering-willow/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:24:27 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1845 Two years ago I was sent some willow cuttings from the research centre at Rothampstead, who keep the National willow collection. The cuttings were for me to use to see which were the earliest flowering willows. My interest is early bee forage. I haveĀ  a lot of violet willow (Salix daphnoides), which is my earliest […]

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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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