Finished mouse guarding today, finally got it all done, the honey supers are all back at base ready to extract and our 290 full colonies are ready for the long winter ahead 👍🐝 #BeeFarmer

Dedicated pump setup for filling jerry cans with winter feed, who the earth has time to gravity fill 😂 #BeeFarmer

Off out to add clearer boards to the next site, tad cool ❄️😬

Before and after clearing the final honey off Weston Park Museum rooftop apiary yesterday, glorious condition but hard work #BeeFarmer @SheffMuseums

State of play in numbers, 12 apiaries of 20 cleared of honey supers, so 8 left, that’s 300 full supers (500 are back) to still to return, so we are around 60% complete and expect to finish clearing honey around Halloween 😬 two weeks earlier than last year but a bigger harvest 👍

Big colonies and no room 😀👍

Nightmare storm conditions but out adding clearer boards to pull honey tomorrow #BeeFarmer clearing a site ever 2 days until Halloween

Just preparing kit for winter storage, still got to bring in the main honey crop 👍

Happy birthday Bilbo and Frodo 🎉🎂

Not sure this banana plant will cope with the early cold nights coming up ❄️

Not sure how this borage got here exactly, but it’s in full flower and very welcome 🪻#BeeFarmer

Grim 💦💦💦💦💦💦💦

Little fella found while setting up a new apiary today 👍🐸

Cut comb all sorted, two pallets of blossom on the left, one pallet of heather comb on the right #BeeFarmer now it’s time to start clearing sites 👍

Whilst this years heather crop was poor we did manage to squeeze out an entire years worth of heather cut comb 👌 such a relief

Sloes are looking amazing this year 👍

Our 2025 spring/summer cut comb boxes safely stored, these are all fully capped frames of honey (unwired) - I can’t tell you how stressful it is producing this volume each year #BeeFarmer

Fecking dadant smokers 🤷‍♂️ anyone able to recommend one that last ? used 8hrs a day for 6 months 💨 maybe I expect too much

In numbers, as of today we’ve got 699 supers sat on 299 full colonies, 58 of these are sat on the heather moors, I’ve already harvested 1.22 tonnes of honey and the end forecast is approaching 7 tonnes 😀 all a bit daunting 💪 picture from today too

May start to strip honey main crop this Saturday, it’s soggy sites first 👍🐝

Still summer ✔️

Buried the little rabbit earlier, we’ve had some heavy rain so figured the ground would be damp but dug down 12” and it was bone dry all the way - going to take months of rain to fix things 💧

Currently harvesting the blossom cut comb crop, this takes about a week to do, so far it’s looking promising #BeeFarmer #CutComb #blossom #honey #uk #eu #love

Not seen her in a while 🌞

Actually raining here 💧

Started to prepare our winter storage spaces for the extra kit and incoming honey supers #BeeFarmer

Recovers the situation 👍 #BeeFarmer

Gravity damage rather than storm, will chainsaw this issue up tomorrow #BeeFarmer

Nice to have great heather sites where we can drive right up to the bees 👍 #BeeFarmer

Back home, three heather moors sites fully populated 👍

Off out shortly to do the final hive move to the heather moors, a few straggler 👍

Off to check the moors sites for storm damage 😱

Evening tidy up and prep for tomorrows storm 👍

Mondays strong winds have been downgraded a little for us ✔️

Off to move last few hives to the heather moors, I think we have just 5 more after this 💪

Sheffield’s huge ‘Gripple’ wire manufacturer who had a turnover of £102 million in 2021 and a pre tax profit of £12.7 million the same year, they’ve just emailed me asking for product donations to a charity event they are running - I struggle to pay the mortgage 😡 taking the piss

Back out moving hives shortly….

Serious storm due on Monday/Tuesday, something to be aware of!!

Currently out moving hives to the heather moors, filling our last site - also got fish and chips on the moors 👍

Won’t last but nectar coming in 🤷‍♂️ from what I have no idea

Heather a week away inspite of all the fuss from a few Scottish beekeepers 🤷‍♂️😂

Brambles on the rebound?

Busy dragging colonies up to the heather moors, I feel broken, 2/3 are now up onsite 🐝🐝🐝👍 a can’t share pics due too my new stalker ☹️

Today’s power outage 🤷‍♂️ again

Managed to ground my truck today accessing a heather site, need more material to fill the ruts ☹️

Does grass seed have a use by date?

Out filling tyre ruts with rubble for access to heather sites 😬

Failed bearing on a trailer has inner part locked to the shaft, any thoughts on removal?

Failed bearing on a trailer has inner part locked to the shaft, any thoughts on removal?

Spray the beesuit?