September is here, and the seasons are beginning to shift from summer to autumn. Our work around the hives is changing too, as we prepare the colonies for the coming winter. Another big change this month is the introduction of our new-look website! East Anglia Apiaries has continued to grow, and over the summer months […]
Making Space for a Growing Colony Here in the East of the UK we have had a very mild but wet winter and we are really happy to see the arrival of the Spring sunshine. The bees have become very active over the past couple of weeks and as the queen increases here egg laying […]
Getting Ready for the New Season Winter is a quieter time for the bees, tucked up warm inside their hives — but there’s no rest for us! While the bees take a well-earned break, we’re busy building and preparing new hives ready for the 2025 season. There’s plenty to do before spring arrives, and we’re […]
Introducing Our New Honey Label As we go into 2025, we’re taking another step forward with a new and improved label for our honey. The look may be changing, but what’s inside remains the same — great honey, produced with care by East Anglia Apiaries. We wanted a fresh design that better reflects our honey, […]
While our bees may follow the seasons, our honey sales continue throughout the year. We tend to jar our honey as we go rather than storing large quantities of pre-jarred honey. This helps us keep our runny honey fresh and flowing, before natural crystallisation begins. Alongside our jars of runny honey, we also produce the […]
Preparing for Our New Bee Experiences We are excited to be preparing two new apiary sites for 2025, creating fantastic new locations for our hands-on Bee Experiences in the Suffolk countryside. The aim is to give visitors the opportunity to learn more about honey bees, discover what happens inside a working hive and experience beekeeping […]
A Much Faster Way to Extract Honey As East Anglia Apiaries has grown, so has the amount of honey we need to extract each season — and our old hand-cranked extractor was starting to struggle. Last year, the small extractor could only take three frames at a time. It worked, but processing a relatively small […]
One of the Busiest Times of the Beekeeping Year May is a busy month for both bees and beekeepers. As temperatures rise and colonies grow quickly, many hives begin preparing to swarm. Swarming is a natural part of the honey bee life cycle and is how a colony reproduces. What Happens When Bees Swarm? As […]
More Than Just Honey Bees Honey bees are only one part of the pollinator story. Around our apiaries, we also see many other important species that help support biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. At one of our sites, I have been watching what I believe are furrow bees living alongside the honey bee colonies. They have […]
Different Hives, Different Styles Over the years, I have used several different types of beehive, each with its own advantages, quirks and level of maintenance. One of our apiaries still contains some of the hives I experimented with when I first started beekeeping, including WBC, Commercial and National hives. WBC Hives The white hives in […]
