Hosting Honey bees on your Farm

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 9, 2017

• #1

Would you all consider Hosting a beefarme'rs bees on your farms to improve your crop yield and quality as diversification, I am told it ticks a green box as well. I am in SouthWitshire, Salisbury Area

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Feb 9, 2017

• #2

After losing my buckfast bees last year will certainly be looking for more to replace.

 

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #3

Have you got a contact or would you like a contact, where roughly are you?

 

Steevo

Member

Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #4

Must have getting on for 50 hives across the farm here and it's a pleasure to have the keeper here.

4-5 pots of honey a year is a perfectly acceptable "rent".

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Feb 10, 2017

• #5

Kevh said:

Have you got a contact or would you like a contact, where roughly are you?

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Struggling to find Buckfast bees for 2017 season seems I will need to go on the list for 2018.

 

Surgery

Member

Location

Oxford

• Feb 10, 2017

• #6

Kevh said:

Would you all consider Hosting a beefarme'rs bees on your farms to improve your crop yield and quality as diversification, I am told it ticks a green box as well

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Just been asking around for some , your more than welcome

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Feb 10, 2017

• #7

Steevo said:

Must have getting on for 50 hives across the farm here and it's a pleasure to have the keeper here.

4-5 pots of honey a year is a perfectly acceptable "rent".

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Same here, love having them and the guy that keeps them is a very nice chap that keeps us very well supplied

 

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franklin

New Member

• Feb 10, 2017

• #8

We would have some here, although I seem to think they prefer beans.

Could be paid in mead.

 

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Crabtree

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Oxfordshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #9

Would love to have some here, the old boy that kept them round us has retired. Quite a diverse farm with beans, rapeseed, game mixes, grass meadows and woodland.

 

wilber

Member

Location

wales

• Feb 10, 2017

• #10

Been tempted to get a hive and learn all about it for a couple of years now, it's a shame i cant find the time, think i would really enjoy it.

 

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #11

renewablejohn said:

Struggling to find Buckfast bees for 2017 season seems I will need to go on the list for 2018.

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Give me a rough idea where you are and I will try and give you a contact

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Feb 10, 2017

• #12

Kevh said:

Give me a rough idea where you are and I will try and give you a contact

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The clue is on my avatar. Lancs = Lancashire just outside Bolton

 

Jerry

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Devon

• Feb 10, 2017

• #13

I would love to have some hives here so if you know anyone near Exeter Devon then shout. Used to have a chap who ran a few hives on but he passed away some years back.

 

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #14

Kevh said:

Give me a rough idea where you are and I will try and give you a contact

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I presume you are after a nucleus of bees with buckfast queen, what type hive is it? So we can get right frame size

 

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #15

Jerry said:

I would love to have some hives here so if you know anyone near Exeter Devon then shout. Used to have a chap who ran a few hives on but he passed away some years back.

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I will pm you some contact details a bit later, need to call the right people, nobody interested in Salisbury area so far though

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Feb 10, 2017

• #16

Kevh said:

I presume you are after a nucleus of bees with buckfast queen, what type hive is it? So we can get right frame size

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I am on National hives but will be buying a new hive. I am unsure why we had a sudden collapse so wary of using the existing hive. Have sterilized the frame but will hopefully reuse on a captured swarm.

 

MissSteak

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Feb 10, 2017

• #17

Worth finding out if there is a resident native bee population near you and siting any farmed bees well away from these to avoid driving out the natives.

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Feb 10, 2017

• #18

MissSteak said:

Worth finding out if there is a resident native bee population near you and siting any farmed bees well away from these to avoid driving out the natives.

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I have some hives with the wild bees in but I have to locate them well away from public footpaths as there so nasty. Anything within 50 mtr of the hive is fair game.

 

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Paul E

Member

Location

Boggy.

• Feb 11, 2017

• #19

renewablejohn said:

Anything within 50 mtr of the hive is fair game.

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Local mosque?

 

Kevh

Member

Location

Near Salisbury, Wiltshire

• Feb 11, 2017

• #20

Paul E said:

Local mosque?

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John try e mailing Daniel Bates, I have just spoken to him on messenger and they are taking online orders for 2017 Nucs with Buckfast queens now, they are sent out by Royal Mail. https://www.bshoneybees.co.uk/