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Book review: A honeybee heart has five openings by Helen Jukes

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Emily Scott

I first found out about this beekeeping memoir after reading a review of it on the Oxfordshire Natural Beekeeping Group blog – Helen Jukes was a member of the group while she lived in Oxford. A Honeybee Heart has Five … Continue reading →

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Winter is coming – getting the bees ready for hail, frost and snow

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Emily Scott

You might think I’m crazy talking about winter. We’ve just had some of our hottest days of the year, when parts of England reached over 35°C. Yet the summer solstice was a summer bee’s lifetime ago. The bees are always … Continue reading →

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Book review – The Beekeeper: Rescuing the stolen women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Emily Scott

The Beekeeper by Dunya Mikhail – available on Amazon (or your local independent bookshop) I discovered this book while browsing my local library’s catalogue for beekeeping books. Yet it is not a book about beekeeping at all. Instead Dunya Mikhail … Continue reading →

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Growing my bees

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Emily Scott

Not bigger bees, but more colonies! I have doubled the amount of hives I have – not too difficult when you only have one to start with. I’ve purchased a colony (the one on the right in the photo above) … Continue reading →

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How I came to have bees again

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Emily Scott

This weekend I was still beeless, as there has been an outbreak of American Foul Brood (AFB) in my supplier’s area and movement of bees and hives has been suspended. “Let me know if any swarms come your way”, I … Continue reading →

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An apiary visit, bait hive set up, garden developments and bee rescuing adventures

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Emily Scott

Sunday was an absolutely glorious summer’s day in Cornwall, one of the first we’ve had this year. What do you do when it’s beautiful out and you’re a short distance from some of the finest beaches in the country? It’s … Continue reading →

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Rotten: Lawyers, Guns and Honey

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Emily Scott

I was alerted to this new documentary on Netflix all the way back in January by Ron Miksha, who writes the fantastic Bad Beekeeping Blog, here’s his post on it – Rotten: Lawyers, Guns  & Honey. Well, I finally got … Continue reading →

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Growing wildflowers – notes from a talk by Elly Phillips, MeadowSweet Consultancy

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Emily Scott

A couple of weeks ago I had a rare mid-week evening trip out. Colours Cafe, a local Truro cafe which holds regular events inspired by nature, wellbeing and good food, was hosting a talk on growing wildflower meadows by a … Continue reading →

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Get ready to find Asian hornets in your apiary – notes from a talk by Martyn Hocking

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Emily Scott

This weekend I went to the Cornwall Beekeepers Association (CBKA)’s AGM. There were some probing questions asked… but luckily there was also plentiful tea and cake to sweeten the proceedings. The CBKA’s setup is more fragmented than Ealing as it … Continue reading →

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Black bees in the mizzle at Godolphin

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Emily Scott

The Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA) organised a big conference on at the Eden Project in Cornwall last weekend – Sustainable Beekeeping: A future without imports. It was all about the benefits of keeping our native/near native honey … Continue reading →

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