by Martin Harker | Nov 25, 2023 | News
It has been a challenging year for beekeeping. We came through the winter with nine of our FHT original eleven hives situated up near the Findhorn Wind Park turbines alive and active. However, a poor spring meant that we continued the winter feeding into April. We...
by Martin Harker | Sep 28, 2022 | News
A busy season concluded with the annual honey harvest in early September. This is later than for many apiaries, but we are fortunate to have heather blooming on the dunes in August and the bees are able to gather a lovely harvest of nectar. This mixes with the summer...
by Martin Harker | Mar 9, 2022 | News
A poem written by the sister of Martin Harker, our bee man, that captures the wonder of working and interacting with the natural world. May it bring a smile, deep nourishment and a sense of hope that springs from this beautiful world we live in. How many trees have...
by Martin Harker | Nov 28, 2021 | News
In the previous report you read about the life of one of my great aunts inside the hive and how she progressed to be a forager, collecting nectar to produce honey. Well, since then our colony has been very busy foraging and building up our food supplies for winter. We...
by Martin Harker | Aug 19, 2021 | News
The previous report from the Findhorn Apiary was from my great aunt. She hatched last autumn and had the important role, along with about 10,000 of her sisters, of keeping the colony sustained through the winter. She had to help keep the colony warm and the queen fed...
by Martin Harker | Jun 4, 2021 | News
The Findhorn Apiary participates in the National Honey Monitoring Scheme, which is important research making use of the foraging of honey bees to monitor environmental changes. We are delighted to be part of the Scheme. We receive interesting information about which...
by Martin Harker | May 18, 2021 | News
I live at the Findhorn Apiary with my sisters and cousins. About 100,000 of us lived through last winter, in eight hives and were delighted that all eight colonies were healthy and ready for spring. In the autumn we had been given plenty of lovely thick sugar syrup to...
