2022 has been an amazing year for honey, with beekeepers across the country reporting really high yields and here at Ben's Berkshire Bees...

It is only mid May and the weather seems to have been perfect for the bees to get into swarming mode. To prevent our bees from swarming...

This week we went to the National Honey Show for the first time. Held at Sandown Racecourse once a year the beekeeping community comes...

One of favorite days each year is when we bring back and extract the honey. The process starts in the apiary when we place clearing...

We were called to assist with a colony of bees which had decided to make their home in a hedgehog house - whilst the hedgehog still lived...

The May that has just finished has been the strangest in my beekeeping experience so far. Going from a warm April to a cold wet May the...

May through to July is the honey swarming season. When a colony is large enough it will reproduce by raising a new queen, with the old...

Last week the temperatures hit 15 degrees so it was finally warm enough to open up the hives and have our first look inside to see how...

March is the month when beekeepers start to get excited about the new season. The temperature picks up and the bees start to become...

As we enter March it is still early in the year but we are starting to see the first signs of Spring. Lots of early bulbs, Snowdrops and...

Honeybees survive the winter as a colony, over the Autumn the number of bees in the hive reduces to about 20,000, and they will work...

Bees produce honey from nectar they forage from flowers. Our bees have two main periods of production each year, firstly around April...