I have not been active on my blog for a while now. Sure I still keep my bees and they are doing great. We have begun to rebuild the old part of our farm house which is a huge project and still not finished.
That said I felt like sharing this bit;
I feel very proud at this time, and very happy for not just my bees but also for all the other insects benefiting from it. I have sown White Clover all over our land and right now there is about 1 hectare of clover blooming like mad :) Bees, Bumblebees, and all sorts of critters are all over it feeding on ample amounts of nectar and fantastic pollen. All organic of course!
Here you can see part of the large field covered in White Clover.
This is the lawn behind our house (cant let my kid run barefoot, ouch)
The bees in my apiary are doing great by the way. No issues with DWV at all.
Bee collecting pollen from the White Clover flower
I have sown one patch with Alsike Clover (Swedish sort of clover)
In the past few years I have been sowing all sorts of flowers but they either havent sprouted or did so in small quantities. Both money and time consuming. Instead of focusing on many plant varieties I now try to sow large areas which can actually create large quality nectar and pollen for the bees. The first year we moved to Denamrk my bees had very little to forage after the end of Jun but now there is so much they can get from the Clover throughout all July :) So happy, so proud! Im also focusing on planting hendges with Hawthorn and Honey Suckle as well as Linden, Rowan and Maple, all good for the bees.
