How to choose the right equipment for your bee farm is essential for success. Hands down, the equipment can make or break you. This is largely down to there being so many different types of bee farming gear available, so it can be genuinely overwhelming to try and sort through all of it and understand what’s really needed for your operation.
For any business to be successful, including our little bee farm, we need to understand what’s happening week on week and month and month to know whether the business is heading in the right direction and that we’re achieving what we’re setting out to do. With even the most basic of financial management, this is more than possible and allows us to plan for sudden change, adjust our strategy if needed, whilst planning effectively for the future.
Bee farmers have a lot to contend with already but extreme heat waves and hot summers in the UK are becoming all too common. How should we look to address the problem of heat?
If you engage with any experienced beekeeper or frequent the beekeeping greats on YouTube, you will have no doubt seen the use of nitrile gloves
Regenerative farming is of growing importance to increasingly more and more people, personally and professionally, across many different walks of life. This is largely in
I apologise for adding yet another bee import statement to the Internet but given it’s import and our personal business mission it did feel warranted.
Table of Contents – Beekeeping Presentations It probably comes as no surprise that beekeepers love to talk about bees, our passion for the craft is
Perhaps one of the first tasks that challenge bee farmers and beekeeping businesses is the very necessary job of labelling products for sale. There is
Table of Contents – Bee Smoker Fuel Bee smoker fuel gets a great deal of attention from beekeepers, and why wouldn’t it, smoker fuel is
Table of Contents – Voluntary VAT Registration for Beekeepers Voluntary VAT registration is rarely on the minds of many sole traders let alone beekeepers. We
Table of Contents – Importance of nucs on the bee farm Nucs, or nucleus colonies, are an important part of any beekeeper’s toolbox. They are
The use of castellated spacers in supers is fairly common in beekeeping but when it comes to the brood box it’s a practice that many beekeepers find ill-advised. Mentors steer you away and your peers offer confused looks when you discuss it. For which there are reasons, and I’m going to talk about them here and hopefully get your thoughts on this issue, too!
