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  • Beekeeping Update: September 2025

    Hi Honey! September has been a mixed month. The winds have increased and the sunny days are equally broken by days of rain. It has also been a mixed month […]

  • Beekeeping Update: August 2025

    Newbees August started wet and windy as we were hit by a storm (I won’t add to the hysteria by ‘naming’ it), but quickly gave way to some calm, warm […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]