It all started many years ago when my husband thought that bees would be a great asset to our already flourishing smallholding.
We attended a beekeeping taster course, and from that, the following year we attended a beginners course and started keeping our own bees. Our daughter at the age of 4 years old also started keeping bees and had a few hives of her own.
It is a very addictive hobby, with successes and overcoming the knockbacks, after all it is nature.
The bees where a great asset and the first year we had a few jars of honey too.
As the years pasted we gained knowledge and experience that with the aid of attending our local beekeepers association and learning from other very experienced beekeepers.
In 2016 after having a vast amount of beehives, honey and beeswax we decided to start making products and sold locally, at small craft fairs and at our local weekly Saturday markets of the goods we produced.
Each year we was blessed with more bees to fill beehives with and more and more honey and wax. We took on active roles within our beekeeping community and have predominate roles to date.
We also hold several BBKA certificates to show our knowledge and understanding of what it takes to care and protect our insect friends.
We really appreciate the hard work all the bees do for us and that is why we love making decorative pieces for others to enjoy.
Our Apiary Sites
Our personal apiaries stretch from the coast into the Wolds all within a good distance of each other ensuring our have a good source and a great area that is not over populated thus providing them with plenty of sources of pollen and nectar. Our bees are allocated in many apiaries including and not limited to, different food sources including agricultural crops, orchards, and wildflower meadows.
It is in bees nature to gather pollen and nectar throughout the summer season mainly to store it in vast amounts this they will turn into honey.
Our bees find their food sources from willow, lime trees and hazel at the beginning of the year. They will then move on to oil seed rape in May this will produce Soft Set honey.
Later months pollen and nectar is more abundant and bees will use wild flowers and field beans , and hedge row flowers this is our runny honey.
The Processes.
The process of our honey and beeswax come from the collection of pollen and nectar collected by honeybees. It is not their intention to pollinate flowers as they do but by collecting pollen and nectar as it is a rich protein which is required for the larvae to develop into honeybees themselves.
The honey comb is made by honeybees from a
substance that is secreted from glands in their abdomen. They then mold and shape the beeswax into the honeycomb’s hexagonal cells, and also use this to cap the
honey, when it is ready to store, for the future.
When the honey is ready for us the wax is uncapped the honey is spun out is carefully filtered and is then is jarred.
Our capping's (beeswax) is also carefully filtered and turned into our products.
We follow responsible beekeeping practices, taking only surplus wax and always prioritising the health and wellbeing of our bees so they continue to thrive year after year.
Any good beekeeper follows good practice's, you can read more on this on our honeybee facts page.
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