Today was the 1st official forage day of the new 2016 :) So great to see bees fly again and collect pollen. I had 8 colonies go into the wi...

I have prepared my colonies for the winter. They were all fed with approx 12 kg of sugar syrup and they should also have some from their ...

I have not been active on my blogs for some time now. The reason is not me having less interest for the bees but rather me having less inter...

I totally forgot to post this picture, my bad :) I had other things on my mind this Summer and have not been blogging much sorry. As I alre...

 In Scandinavia we mix the honey so it would not crystallize. When mixing the honey, air breaks the sugar crystals and the honey becomes c...

 I have planted  lots of flowers this Spring. The Phacelia is now in the bloom and there are so many Bumblebees as well as Honeybees visit...

 Out of 3 nucleus top bar hives that I supered only one went up into the supers and made approx 20kg of honey.  This is the first time ...