Friday 30 September 2011

Interesting bee fact of the week

Did you know that at her peak laying time a queen bee will lay up to 3000 eggs per day. That's a lot of children to look after!

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Nevermind busy as a bee! Hungry as a bee more like.

Just tipped the 300kg mark for sugar. They are seriously hungry but I'm hoping this will do them now. I have 12 hives so that's 25 kg per hive. What does everyone think? Whats your experience with feeding?

Tuesday 27 September 2011

Where is Queen Liz?

Checked a small hive today for the sixth time and still haven't seen Liz! Plenty of eggs, 3 or 4 frames laid recently so there is obviously a queen in there somewhere. Can see the queen in all my other hives. Has anybody else had this problem? As I am heading for my first winter with bee hives, has anyone any tips for how much honey stores the bees need to safely overwinter?

Monday 26 September 2011

My first big order

Get in!! Received my first substantial order today. Finally all this hard work is starting to amount to something. My bees this morning didn't quite share the excitement with me, they were the complete opposite. They were for some reason fueled with rage towards me and as soon as I opened them up a barrage of fighter pilots were going straight for the face. God knows why they were annoyed? The weather was beautiful and they were about to receive some sugar syrup. So the only logical explanation is they caught wind of my first big order and were sad to see all their hard work go to someone else other than themselves. Obviously! So please look out for my honey at Charlies stores in the next couple of weeks.

Saturday 24 September 2011

My Product

This is my Jar that is going onto the shelves in the next couple of weeks. Make sure you look out for it.  Please give me any comments you have about it. Thanks

Friday 23 September 2011

Seeing into the future

How can I see into the future!? 2 days 2 meetings one asking when am I going to retire and the other how many jars I'm going to sell in 11 months time. Anybody else feel like they need to see into the future to answer questions. My answer is I don't know but I know what I want to sell or when I want to retire. The only thing the bee's have got to worry about is if I'm going to give them enough sugar. I wonder what they would say if you asked them where do you see yourself in 11 months time?? I imagine the response would be "alive hopefully." Off to predict the future for 12 months now so see you later.

Thursday 22 September 2011

Interesting bee fact of the week

Did you now that my bee's have flown 41,000 miles just to make a 340g jar of honey.

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Stung, blogged and marketed out

Afternoon fellow bee enthusiasts, this is my first ever post and blog so please go easy on me. My name is Scott Davies, I live in Newtown Mid Wales. I have 12 hives going into winter from my first year of being a bee keeper or shall I say bee owner? :-) Today I just popped up to see how my work force (the bees) were getting on with their feed. Stupidly I thought to my self I'm only going to be a few seconds so I wont need my suit. Approximately 30 seconds later here I come running down the garden being chased by my work force. Obviously angry about the pay! Anyway I learnt my lesson and popped back up armoured to the teeth. It's also been a very exciting day meeting with Lori Whinn from www.totalfoodmarketing.co.uk who is helping me out with the launch of my brand "hilltop honey" which will be 100% British from bee farmers around the U.K supplying the honey. Also when I have a sufficient number of hives I will have a Welsh honey as part of the brand. After meeting with her I have a massive list of what to do to market my brand so now my head is all over the place of which route to go down first. Anyway thank you for reading my very first post. There will be plenty more to come so please keep in touch.