Why Vegans (and everyone else) should eat Honey
It’s probable that most honey bee colonies in the west do not live in the wild anymore. They live with beekeepers. No matter what your views on eating or not
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Honey & Almond Baklava Recipe
A Turkish sweet made with buttered pastry layered with chopped nuts and soaked in a spiced honey syrup The first time I had this middle-eastern treat was in the airport in
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Beekeeping Harvest: Crushing and Straining Honey
Finding ‘wild’ comb in my hive and extracting honey from it. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks for me with filling orders over at Lovely Greens Handmade, taking guests
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Roger Patterson inspects my Honeybees
Roger Patterson inspects my honeybees and finds that one of them is an ideal candidate for the ‘Bee Improvement Programme’. It’s only recently that I learned of the plan to
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“Improving” Manx Bees
The Isle of Man Beekeepers are working to bring back the ‘British Black’ honeybee Some of the older beekeepers on the Isle of Man can still remember a time when
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My Periwinkle Blue Beehive
Have you ever realised just how much more colour people add to their own homes in foreign countries? Outside of the ‘West’ you’ll find houses in all the colours of
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Varroa lookalike & my beekeeping scare
Varroa vs Braula Not even a week ago I interviewed Harry Owens, Chief Bee Inspector of the Isle of Man, about the fear that the Varroa Mite could be on
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Honeybee Threat: Danger of the Varroa Mite reaching the Isle of Man
Harry Owens, Chief Bee Inspector for the Isle of Man Government, spent two years meticulously looking through every colony of honeybees on the island to verify the belief that the
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The Allotment Garden & Honeybees in January
Getting a head start on this year’s gardening projects has been difficult this month. While occasional breaks in the wind and rain have given windows of opportunity, most of the
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