It was always going to be slightly different to previous years given that it was my first season as a fully qualified bee farmer...

As a beekeeper, a really common question I get asked is “but where do you get the honeybees from in the first place?” It’s an important question because sadly honeybees don’t...

Katie, our resident beekeeper, was the UK's first beekeeping apprentice. After two years she's now graduated to become our resident bee keeper. We caught up with her to find out from...

Where honeybees live Over time the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) became domesticated in Europe for honey production and crop pollination, and this domestication of the species became possible with...

Are honeybees protected? If a species in the UK is protected then that means that by law this species cannot be harmed. Such species include bats, badgers, otters and wild birds....

Where do honeybees store their honey? Honeybees store their honey in the small hexagonal cells that make up comb. Comb is made of beeswax which the bees secrete from glands...

Why are beeswax candles better? As you might guess from the name, beeswax is produced by bees and more specifically, honeybees! Bees produce wax from wax glands in their abdomen....

How do bees make honey? There are a few different stages involved in the honey making process and it all begins with the symbiotic relationship between honeybees and plants. Plant species...

What are beeswax candles? Beeswax candles are candles made from a wax that is produced by honeybees. They come in many different forms – rolled, hand-dipped, moulded and are a completely...

Where does beeswax come from? Beeswax comes from honeybees and it is fascinating to think they actually produce the material they need to build their nests. Comb, which is the foundation...

Are beeswax candles vegetarian or vegan? Let's start with the Oxford dictionary definition of vegetarianism and veganism... Vegetarianism “a person who does not eat meat or does not believe in eating...

Beeswax candles are made using the wax that honeybees produce. There are a few variations on the beeswax candle, and I’ll discuss how a couple of them are made in...

One of the most asked questions on the topic of bees and honey... Why do bees make honey? Surely they don't make it purely for us? Well the answer is...

Having left Scotland to try a bit of beekeeping in New Zealand, you can imagine my surprise when Ali and Peter announced I would be staying in a bothy! Ok...

One of the opportunities offered to me as a bee farming apprentice is to spend a few of the winter months in New Zealand to get a new perspective on...

Pollinators and their importance Since starting my apprenticeship I have been asked on numerous occasions – how effective are honey bees as pollinators? The answer is not black and white...

Most days as a bee farming apprentice I work in the great outdoors but recently I was asked to be part of an interview that the Scottish Bee Company were...

Our Bee farming apprentice, Katie, shares the highs and lows of working with Bees! My name is Katie and I am the Scottish Bee Company’s bee farming apprentice! I started...