Beekeeping - Short and Sweet

Beekeeping short and sweet. A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper in fact, just like me! With local schools about to kick out for the Summer holiday’s and our politicians about to go off on their Summer recess I figured it would be a good time to sum up how the season has progressed so far by way of a school report, I remember those school repo...

Beekeeping Short and Sweet - A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This week's podcast is our monthly Q&A, my thanks to everyone that posted questions and comments, it helps me a lot to be able to address genuine questions. Please do take a look at Paul Beardmore's Happy Valley Honey website for the Poly La...

Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span! Welcome once again to my weekly podcast, it’s a really busy time of the year for me at the moment, notwithstanding all of the videos, podcast, occasional blog post and social media output, the bees are definitely in need of constant attention. Talking of social media don’t forget we’re on Instagram and...

Queen rearing using the Nicot system has to be one of the easiest methods of producing a reasonable number of queen cells with the minimum amount of hassle. In today's podcast, I discuss a previous method of queen rearing called the Alley method which turned out to be my favourite from last season and then how I use the Nicot system for raising around 15-20 queen cells per batch. The Nicot sy...

Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This week I take a look at my Summer Varroa Treatments and discuss a worrying infection in one of my colonies, Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus. Through most of the Summer I use a mechanical method of removing varroa mites but when I split colonies I switch to a treatment. In today's...

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My Monthly Beekeeping Q&A, Supers, swarms, Queens and more! A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This month we have some great questions relating to the National Bee Unit here in the UK, When to feed swarms, how to get bees to move into a super when they refuse and which way round to put on a queen excluder. I also...

June In The Apiary! Extracting Early Season Honey, Swarming and Inspections. Beekeeping Short and Sweet. A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! Welcome once again to my weekly podcast and My thanks to those of you listening via the Patreon page I really appreciate your support. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a support pag...

In my second queen rearing podcast I discuss a very simple technique of creating new queens from an existing hive that has thrown up queen cells. I call it the "Two Nucs" method of queen rearing, a method that has been in use by beekeepers for many years and one that can create many new colonies over the course of a season. No complicated equipment is required just a couple of spare nuc...

If you're new to beekeeping then the thought of queen rearing might send a shudder through you, well, no worries, if you've lost a swarm, congratulations, you're already raising new queens! In this week's podcast I discuss the basic technique of queen rearing known as the Artificial Swarm. If you would like to get early access to my weekly podcast please check out my support pa...

Welcome back to my podcast, this week it's my monthly Q&A session. You can submit questions via patreon.com/norfolkhoney. Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a weekly podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me!  Support the show

Beekeeping Short and Sweet. A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! Welcome back to my weekly podcast and this week is our monthly preview of the month ahead, May! If you would like to take a look at my Patreon page please visit www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney. May already, where is this year going and when will the beekeeping season fi...

Welcome to Beekeeping Short and Sweet - A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! In today's podcast I interview Dan Bates from BS Honey, a new beekeeping enterprise with a couple of really nice young chaps at the helm. BS Honey Bees UK was formed by business partners & Bee Farmers Daniel Bates & Tristan Sawczuk in Glouces...

During my recent visit to the BBKA (British Beekeeping Association) Spring Convention 2018 I managed to grab a few minutes to chat with Belinda Bright, Co-Founder of BBWear. With their combined experience, they saw the opportunity to develop a range of British made protective clothing for beekeepers. BBwear clothing is now sold all over the world and they are considered a market leader. BBwear sui...

Beekeeping Short and Sweet - A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span! This week is our April Question and Answer session from our Patreon members, lots of really great questions ranging from Apivar treatments for varroa, bailey comb changes, cleaning out dead hives and much more. If you’ve not yet started beekeeping and looking for help and assistance, pop over to my we...

Our Apiary in AprilBeekeeping short and sweet, a podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! Welcome back and thank’s for joining me here in Norfolk in the UK where we find ourselves just easing out of a prolonged cold, late Winter and chilly early Spring. The weather has really played it’s part this year with our beekeeping routine having...

Beekeeping short and sweet - A Beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! In this week's podcast, I'm talking about Pollen Substitute, why you might use it, how to mix it up and how to use it. Unless you've been keeping honeybees for a prolonged period of time it can seem that at every turn there's yet anoth...

Welcome back to the Podcast. This week is my monthly review of jobs that might feature in March. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was chatting about the tasks for February, Spring is definitely on the way. Having said that Spring will soon be here there is also a risk to our bees from a last Winter chill and with it our bees could well be eating through their final remaining stores so it&...

Beekeeping, Short and Sweet. A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span. A beekeeper, in fact, just like me. This is my monthly Q&A session answering beekeeping questions submitted by my Patreon supporters. In this episode, we have questions relating to sloping apiaries, dummy boards and others. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions for the Q&A for March. I...

Today's podcast is the follow-on interview with Kevin Thorn, Group Coordinator for the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association and also the person heading up the project at the Abberton Reservoir near Colchester, Essex. UK.Kevin explains how the project got started, the processes that they went through and who is involved. Support the show

In today's podcast I meet up with Kevin thorn, Groups' Organiser for the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association here in the UK.I am a member of BIBBA and I wanted to share some information about the group so that other beekeepers could learn a little more about the organisation and maybe even decide that it was something worth getting involved in. The Bee Improvement and Bee Breede...

A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a podcast, in fact, designed for a beekeeper just like me! Nosema is a spore-forming parasitic microsporidian. There are over 200 different species of Nosema, fortunately, only two of those affect our honeybees. Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae. Each one is slightly different and develops in the honeybee slightly differently but bo...

A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a podcast, in fact, designed for a beekeeper just like me! The ProVap 220UKIn Today's Podcast, I review the latest piece of equipment I have called the ProVap220UK Oxalic Acid Sublimator/VaporiserCheck out all of the product details on our website http://www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/product/provap220uk/ Support the show

My regular weekly podcast for beekeepers everywhere. This week is my first monthly round-up podcast looking at jobs I have to complete this month and taking a brief look at what follows on in March. Beekeeping, Short and Sweet."For the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span!"Hopefully, you might find it fun, interesting, informative and questioning. Perhaps helping you questio...

Beekeeping, Short and Sweet. In this introductory podcast I outline very roughly what you might expect, I've called my podcasts "Beekeeping - Short and Sweet" and it will run with the tagline of something along the lines of"For the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span!"The plan is to keep them short and interesting, enough to get you listening and not doze off...