As most of you will know Annabel won her bees as part of her Leslie Thorne Award and so as a District Grantham Beekeepers had to source her a good strong colony of bees. To do this we approached Eddy Gadd who then wouldn't take any money off us so we donated a sum of money to a charity to a charity of his choice which was 'Bees for Development'!!
Now we will go straight in with some photo's of Annabel, her Mum and Jez, (the chairman of Grantham District Beekeepers) meeting up and having a chat before sorting out the bees and then we will also get to see a few photos of Eddy's Farm and set up.
We arrive at Big Tree Honey Farm. |
First arrival at Big Tree Honey Farm. Meeting with Eddy and sorting the paperwork. |
Eddy and Jez Securing the nuc for transpo |
strong colony with laying queen over 5 frames |
Eddy had some bumble bees in a bird house which he has just retrieved.as yet he has not had chance to identify the species and I am not too familiar with bumble bees!! |
These are nucs all with laying queens in ready to be transported to bee keepers around the county. |
The bees you see here are the ones that were out foraging when we moved Annabel s hive, don't worry though they will drift into a hive close by. |
As well as full size nucs Eddy rears 'queen nucs'. These are much smaller and only have a handful of bees to go into a nuc upon delivery. |
To do all this nuc rearing you need a good mode of transport and Eddy has his van. You can always contact him for info or if you are interested in sourcing some bees from him. |
So after a lovely chat and look around the farm it was time to load up the bees into the and get them to their new home. |
Paperwork for where the bees came from and what 'strain' they are. |
The bees will need to go into a full size hive with them being such a big colony so Annabel can get stuck straight in with her management as soon as they have had and evening to settle!!