Author: rosamund

Have you heard of Findhorn? It is a spiritual community near Inverness in Scotland, which I visited a while ago (see Our story | Findhorn Foundation) when I first came

Sadly we’ve lost one of the colonies of honeybees. It’s not unusual to lose colonies over winter but it’s always sad to see. There can be any number of reasons

This is an article from Peter’s January column in BeeCraft magazine – it’s not really about bees! Being of only modest vertical achievement ceiling fans have never been a source

All’s quiet with the bees in November. If all has gone to plan the queen will have stopped laying and the ‘winter bees’ (physiologically different to summer bees – the

First off apologies to Mike for getting stung while scything the orchard. Bees can become hyper-defensive at this time of year – they have their stores and they know that

We had a fantastic day with the staff from Guildford Fedcap, who came with a lovely team of 20 people to help us build our Hub shelter. They learnt to

The orchard this year has produced very different results from last year. The crop has been badly affected by wasps and other insects this year, while last year we did

If you’ve been down to the bottom of the garden you may have noticed that the height of the hives has been changing – gradually getting taller and then, a