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Beekeeping Update: April 2026
Spring hasn’t Sprung In many parts of the UK the bees are already fetching in the nectar from oil seed rape and dandelion; beekeepers are splitting colonies, adding supers, seeing honey, and having concerns about swarming. But here in the Outer Hebrides the seasons lag and it is…
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March Forward. Fall Back.
Spring Forward As the clocks moved forwards an hour for whatever made-up reason, and the days begin to become longer than the nights, March seems to have taken a step backwards. March was the opposite of February as the island was hit by a string of windy and…
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Beekeeping Update: March 2026
Spring has Sprung With the spring equinox today and the opening off the daffodils on the 1st March it seemed like a good time to look at the season ahead, and say hello to the bees! The first signs of spring have arrived at the apiary with the…
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Boxes and Rushes
Boxes. Now that January is February things seem to be moving at pace here on Croft 5, interrupted by a special delivery. My belongings have arrived from the mainland! A shipping container full of stuff that I had done without, memories trapped in a box of tremendous size,…
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Beekeeping (quick) Update: January 2026
A Barrow Full of Bees Winter is normally a quiet time for the beekeeper. As the year draws to a close here on the Isle of Lewis the days are short and the nights longer. There have been lots of things happening on the croft, but little in…
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Winter Fell
And then there was Snow January arrived with a flurry of snow and a drop in temperature. Whilst the thermometer showed a chilly -2℃ the northerly wind made sure any exposed skin was feeling more like -11℃. This snow quickly cleared and we enjoyed some beautiful and still…