Stewart Family Honey

18/08/2024

Coals to Newcastle as the saying goes…
But this honey is superb, very different to family to our Havelock North honey, courtesy of friends in Alexandra
They have one serviced hive in their garden

27/05/2024

A vintage clip from 2010 - our first inspection of the hives with Monty aged 18 months

17/05/2024

Flow hive harvest - very cool bit of kit

19/02/2024

Fresh honey super boxes for the growing nuc hives and general maintenance

29/01/2024

Episode 2 - Removing the comb honey

29/01/2024

Our first summer harvest of 2024 - the bees have laid down some combs in the roof cavity ‘attic’

29/01/2024

A successful first harvest of the summer
The bees had laid some combs in their attic

29/01/2024

Busy bees - the swarm hive is doing well - capped honey in the first honey super and they are readying the second honey super

23/01/2024

Happy bees enjoying the summer warmth
A small bit of bearding on two hives - bearding is a term for when the bees move outside the hive and sit on the face of the super
I’ve added an extra super to each hive
Brood supers on the 3 nucs and a honey super on the captured swarm

02/12/2023

Inspection of the new hives 1 week on
- removing the queen containers
- check the queens are ok
- swap over to supers (boxes) that were full depth for 3/4 depth for the nuc frames (3/4 depth)
The bees had enjoyed the honey I’d left for them
Thanks for Dad for his help - we worked on hives together at our Pickle Patch orchard when I was a wee fella

28/11/2023

28/11/2023

Happy bees - All settled in and fed with some of last years comb honey
With the flow hives I can put the honey container in the hive attic and they can safely build up their reserves - historically I’d leave it out front but then there’d be a war! Lots of dead bees

28/11/2023

3 new nucleus hives and a swarm moves in - bonus 👍

28/11/2023

3 bend new nuc hives have arrived after a tough winter battling wasps for the apiary
Day one - getting them accustomed to their new location