Anglesey Bees takes home Great Taste 2024 Award for its Anglesey Summer Wildflower Honey.
Summer 2024 honey ready for collection. Please contact us before calling
Managing a multitude of Hives
Manage a multitude of hives in a day!
Accompany Dafydd for a as he inspects and manages up to twenty hives in one morning!
This is a rare opportunity to witness the management of several contrasting hive types and share the information-gathering, decision-making and problem-solving aspects of seasonal hive and apiary management.
This is a wonderful learning experience and an opportunity to ask questions there-and-then as things develop and unfurl.
- Maximum 4 persons
- Early April - end of August
- Use of protective clothing included.
- Printed folder of notes to accompany beginner and refresher courses and links to further reading available on request.
- Invitation to join a private whatsapp group for ongoing support.
What you experience will depend entirely on the time of year and the tasks that need doing in the apiary, but will include many of the following:-
- Apiary layout and management
- Upscaling your venture
- Spring management
- Routine hive inspections
- Expanding the brood nest
- Getting foundation drawn
- Rotating frames
- Pre-emptive swarm management
- Reactive swarm management
- Making an increase
- Replacing lost queens
- Managing mating nucs
- Supering
- Harvesting honey
- Managing robbing
- Varroa treatment
- Feeding
- Winter preparation
- Cost £60 per person for half a day
- 10:00-13:00 or 13:30-16:30
- Call, text or email to check available dates for your event or to purchase a gift voucher.
