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Our family journey to cultivate a suburban garden for sustainability, biodiversity, beauty, and joy

16/06/2024

Despite the awful weather we’ve had this spring, our spring nucs with our home grown 2024 queens are doing brilliantly! These nucs are being picked up tomorrow morning, ready to grow into full size colonies at their new homes.

They’re such lovely bees we’ll be sad to see them go! 🐝

24/05/2024

A buff-tailed bumblebee meets our honeybees!

13/05/2024

Stacking up. Like all of us, our bees have been making the most of the recent fair and settled weather - and colonies are quickly growing taller!

These colonies are now running two brood boxes and a honey super each, plus a vertical split nuc on top 🐝

06/05/2024

Hello, friend! 🐝

05/05/2024

Honey delivery! 📦🍯

We’ve just dropped off another box of our Cranleigh honey to - pure and unprocessed golden goodness poured straight from our Flow Hives 🐝

That’s takes us to more than 100 jars of honey that now we’ve walked all of 300m down the street to the Moooh! store. Shop local, buy local, eat local!

28/04/2024

Have you thought about rearing your own queens? 👑

The benefits of breeding from your own stock are significant, and it’s perhaps what we enjoy doing most during the beekeeping season!

We’re now breeding the fourth generation of queens from our line, naturally reared by the bees themselves - no grafting involved - with genetics we know and ever more adapted to our specific locality 🐝

04/04/2024

Picture perfect! There’s a something of everything on this comb - capped brood, larva and eggs, all surrounded by a band of freshly foraged pollen and nectar 🐝

31/03/2024

Sometimes you find something that puts words to something better than you can 💬

This has been our winter read, and we can’t recommend it enough. In the last year we’ve deliberately taken a slower, more hands off approach to our beekeeping. We’ve become intentionally self-sufficient for queens, for example, but we also found our mindset shifting for reasons we couldn’t fully articulate. And in so many ways, this book has helped us understand why.

Far away from the fast lane of mail order queens, magic supplements and artificial stimulative feeding, Eric and Joy provide a wonderful illustration of how a more sustainable approach can result in healthier and more resilient bees 🐝

It’s a brilliant read and we’re going to be some time putting it all into practice!

29/03/2024

Our favourite ice cream store is open again! We can absolutely recommended the mini eggs flavour for the Easter weekend 🪺

And our Cranleigh honey on the shelves! This is as local as it gets - small-batch bee-kind honey from our Cranleigh bees 🐝

25/03/2024

Our overwintered nucs are… busy! 🐝

With a sudden abundance of pollen amongst Cranleigh’s hedgerows, trees and gardens, our bees are grabbing any opportunity to forage. This can lead to moments of congestion at the hive entrance, where there’s simply not enough space through the front door for everyone!

These overwintered nucs and their 2023 queens will soon be going to their new homes. We’ve loved producing these new colonies with their naturally reared queens and hope that they will bring our customers many years of joy and fulfilment ❤️

We’re 100% Langstroth beekeepers which means our overwintered and spring nucs are perfect for Flow Hives and other Langstroth setups!

04/03/2024

After days and days of endless rain, a short break in the weather this morning was the perfect opportunity to check up on our colonies ☀️

There are plenty of signs of spring around, not least the sight of our bees bringing this bright yellow-orange pollen back to the hives. There’s a good chance this is willow pollen, a vital source of protein and other nutrients that the colony will use to help rear new bees in the weeks ahead 🐝

We can feel the quiet of winter gently slipping away, and it won’t be long now until before these colonies are expanding at astonishing rates!

27/01/2024

It’s now six months since the summer honey harvest season of 2023 ☀️

Our Flow Hives make it so incredibly easy. Pouring honey straight from the hive means we’re blessed to harvest honey is it’s rawest and most natural form, and most importantly with minimal interference to the bees that have crafted it 🐝

Winter may still be far from over, but we can’t help but get excited about turning the handles on our Flow Hives again, six months from now! 🍯

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