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Beekeeping: Cedar vs Poly Hives
Winter is Coming Ok, a bit dramatic as it is still only August. However the longest day has passed, the days are getting shorter, and someone forgot to tell summer that it’s still not finished its shift yet! With beekeeping (like most farming activities) I need to consider…
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Bee Farming: Livestock for the Modern Croft
What Can Bees Teach a New Entrant About Land and Livestock Management? When most people think about livestock, sheep, cattle, or hens usually come to mind. But there’s another livestock species that’s smaller, winged, and surprisingly rich in lessons for land management: the honeybee. In our ever changing…
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Beekeeping Update: July 2025
To Super, or not to Super, that is July… As we entered July the rainfall was still fallin’, the breeze still breezin’ and the temperature still, erm, cool. So much so that by the 4th July I was concerned about the amount of rain that appeared to have…
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The Road to Croft 5 (pt.1)
The windswept shores of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides may seem like a distant land to those comfortable with living on the mainland, but for me this breathtaking island was the perfect spot to start the next chapter of my life. This blog follows my…
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Beekeeping Update: June 2025
As the Bee Flies Whilst I am bound in an endless loop of waiting encircled by nothing-happening-ness, drawn by the hands of the crofting commission and the islands solicitors, I was given a space of land to begin my beekeeping journey. So it was out with the notebook…
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Buckfast Bees in the Hebrides
Why We Chose Buckfast Bees When discussing beekeeping on the Isle of Lewis people spoke about a “Native Black Bee” or used the term “Hebridean Black Bee”. However there are few active beekeepers on the island and even fewer resources for information about the native Hebridean Black Bee.…