😍 A sea of purple borage. Beautiful! 🎥 @Agri_Dan97

Clearer boards on in Essex. 110 full supers mix of commercial supers, BS deeps and one 14x12 (back breaker!!!) off 29 hives. Lost one that went queenless

So after removing the bulk of the honey and leaving them with two commercial supers. After 2 weeks which the borage was swathed after a week all the boxes were full! So cleared again to one super and after 24 hours half full 🤯 got half the hives home. The others will be full!

Late flowering borage. Worth it or to late now? What you you reckon Chris Manton

Starting early in the cool till the cat and I both get to hot 🥵 then go check some bees in the afternoon.

I think now would be a good time to shout out to the farmers who gracefully allow us to place bees on their land. We're one of the few members of the public who see first hand the good work you do for the countryside. Cheers! 🐝

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Busy in the workshop

Machining Manley commercial super side bars.

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Finally a good flow on

New back for the truck ready for moving bees to the borage!

Father’s Day present bought for Dad. Hopefully he will let me borrow it when he’s done. Paul Horton (Apidae Honey)

All the moving is done for this year well till they need to come home 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️. This group have been here 2 weeks and working into the third super. Referencing Chris Manton and Paul Horton (Apidae Honey) comments about being paid. This farmer has moaned about the lack of bees on the crop 🤷🏻‍♂️

First borage honey of the season extracted today

Bit sticky in Essex this morning

Had my padawan learner with me today in Essex. Can’t quite manage the boxes yet but is a pro smoker operator! Had some steppler like brace comb in the clearers

Well what do we say about this…. A fantastic article written by clearly an extremely gratuitous and self deprecating bee keeper! I thought we had done well this season but I shall keep quite my numbers as Paul Horton (Apidae Honey) knock mine into a cocked hat! Keep up the good work!

Good for another 25 years

Bit of frame making