Gloucester Honey Company

09/09/2026

Setting up New Apiary site at Brookthorpe

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09/09/2026

We are pleased to announce that CCR Country Store at Brookthorpe now stock our Honey. They also host some of our hives in the area giving the bees access to lots of spring as well as summer pollen & nectar from the hedgerows & trees.

26/08/2026

26/08/2026

Last of this years honey extracted today from the Hardwicke apiary. A thick flavoursome honey which was heavy in the frames so much so that several of them broke up in the extractor while it was being spun out, never had that happen before. While checking the moisture content, should be below 18% I found some of the uncapped honey was as low as 16%! Perhaps the bees know that more nectar will be available after rain & before winter shutdown, that’ll be interesting to see. May bucket this honey for creaming in winter.

14/08/2026

TGIF been a busy week so here’s a couple of photos one of the Bees “washboarding” yesterday evening, thought to occur when it’s too hot in the hive which it probably was & my first ripe Melon grown outside in the open with lots more to come, adapt to the changing climate, the Kiwi fruit are suffering a bit in the heat though without any water.

12/08/2026

15 minutes to jar the honey a long time in this heat, need to get the rest of the honey off (when it’s cool enough to work in a beesuit)

11/08/2026

Back home now having tea, supers replaced on hive it has to done after bees & wasps stop flying to reduce risk of robbing, did it too early a few years ago & it was carnage for a couple of days.

11/08/2026

Samples of honey & beeswax taken for UK honey monitoring scheme. Gives a fascinating insight into the Bees foraging habits plus it’s all archived for the future.

09/08/2026

Video of my attempt to Requeen two nucs gone horribly wrong. If you look carefully when I handle the queen cage you will see a bee with a white dot, this years queen. Made up several splits this year all succeeded but these didn’t the only reason I can surmise is that the original hive wasn’t Buckfast as in both cases the bees held the queens in the cages & when I released them into the hive they disappeared probably killed.

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