swarm – 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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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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Swarm Nine Safely Housed http://sustainablesmallholding.org/swarm-nine-safely-housed/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/swarm-nine-safely-housed/#respond Thu, 26 May 2011 20:20:37 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1427 Yesterday I boxed up the ninth swarm from my own colonies. This was a much smaller swarm, and was close to the hive from which I think the previous swarm came. The timing is about right too, with almost a week elapsing since the prime swarm came out. Having finished, I got a call to […]

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