Norfolk Honey -The food of Kings
Suffolk apiary
I no longer keep bees in Suffolk
This is what I wrote in 2008
Welcome to Suffolk. The sign is just a couple of miles from my apiary just
over the Norfolk/Suffolk border into Suffolk.
There are four hives at Suffolk.
Number four,
the furthest colony down the line of hives,
is the latest addition to my Suffolk apiary and was one of the two hives I
bought from Bill at the start of 2008. Unfortunately I left them for too
long with honey on and they got tight for space and swarmed fairly early in
the season. So colony number four has requeened it'self in Suffolk. I will
call them Bill's (Suffolk) Bees.
Number three are Suffolk Bees that have been there for some years. Three has
a yellow (2007) queen. That queen refuses to lay enough eggs and the colony
has remained small all year. They are very docile easy to handle bees - but
seemingly useless.
At the start of the year colony number two were Suffolk bees (the queen was
the 2006 mother of number three). That hive was queenless on my last visit
and I put in a frame of eggs from number four hive into the broodbox. Number
two successfully requeened. So number two is now a
daughter of Bills (Suffolk) Bees in hive number four.
Colony number one was taken to Suffolk last year and still has the same queen.
I'm not sure how old the queen is. They are Bluebell Allotment Bees that sulked
at the start of the year and missed out on the rape. They have built up a bit
better since.
Apiary links
Old Costessy
Postwick
Sprowston
Ringland
Spixworth
In the woods
George's garden