Warre – 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 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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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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Do Swarms travel with a Spare Queen? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/do-swarms-travel-with-a-spare-queen/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/do-swarms-travel-with-a-spare-queen/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 21:39:39 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1383 Yesterday I housed my sixth swarm of the season, and far from becoming routine, the process threw up a number of questions, including, do swarms travel with a spare queen? In the end, I think I can answer that, but at the time it was an interesting question to mull over, whilst observing the swarm […]

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February Bee Forage Plants – Part Three http://sustainablesmallholding.org/february-bee-forage-plants-part-three/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/february-bee-forage-plants-part-three/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:25:29 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1206 Today the weather warmed up, and I was surrounded by bees foraging whilst I worked. Well, surrounded isn’t technically correct, I was between them, and their forage. I took a bit of time off to take some pictures for this post, and got one or two really good shots. I also noticed/remembered a couple more […]

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Smallholding Ups and Downs http://sustainablesmallholding.org/smallholding-ups-and-downs/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/smallholding-ups-and-downs/#respond Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:12:07 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1107 Today was a pretty good day, and seemed significant. The bees were all active, I broke the back of this season’s tree planting, I saw the first signs of willow catkins starting to break, and I put the first seeds of 2011 into the propagator. However, it seems that every silver lining has a cloud, […]

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