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2025 – Preparing the bees for winter
The summer is over, the honey has been harvested and now the bees have to prepare themselves for winter. For the beekeeper that means checking that they have enough stores (food) to keep them going…
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2025 honey harvest
Its been a good year for honey. The weather has been warm (if a little dry) and the bees have been busy. At the start of June I removed (harvested?) about 70kg of honey –…
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Welcome to Hottsfield Honey
I started keeping bees about 10 years ago – firstly with just two small hives filled with a couple of nuclei (aka “nukes”) obtained from another club member after joining the local beekeeping association. Those…