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My Best Yield Yet, and Why I Still Can’t Take New Customers

24th September 2026 by Steve Donohoe
Apimelter containing wax cappings

We made the same amount of honey with 14 fewer colonies My son Alex (a.k.a. the Mole) and I finally finished extracting honey on 23 September at 2.30pm. It has been a slog, but, apart from a small amount still in the Apimelter, our 2026 honey is now in buckets. I hope that it lasts … Read more

Categories Seasonal Management Tags winter feeding, winter preparation 2 Comments

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