Rosslyn Chapel Stone Beehives

Stone masons looking at the flower entrance and the honey comb in one of the stone hives.



This place seems to crop up almost everywhere and in almost any subject I read about, now they have found another aspect of it, the whole building and its history just blows me away, the people who built the chapel must have had a totally unique view on life? I would love to get your views or read your stories about the place, please feel free to comment or leave links for others.

Check out this link STONE BEEHIVES for the full story.

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The Plans have arrived

The plans have arrived, after a long process to decide which hive to build I have decided on the Dartington Long Deep hive , persuading a good friend of mine to post the cheque for me to Robin Dartington, rewarded me with a copy of his instructions on how to build his design of hive. I researched a lot of methods on beekeeping before deciding on the idea that the topbar method of brood rearing was kindest to the bees and national hive size frames would make it easy to store and extract the honey.

As I have now worked out how to include them  below is a link to Robins site.

Robin Dartington
 

All credit to Robin Dartington for many years of research and for giving us this design of hive.

Just to stress again my choice was based on the fact that,

1.Bees should be allowed to produce a colony and cell size of their choosing reducing stress for them.(This opinion is shared by many)
2.We should be allowed to enjoy there generosity in storing more honey than they could eat and have it reasonably easily available.

So there you have it the choice is made Dartington Hive.

I will post some pictures soon of the proposed apiary site without giving away the location, and some of the hive construction progress.

20 years of waiting

It has taken 20 years to get here, I have decided to start keeping bees (I think?).
This year will be spent doing the research and accumulating the equipment and next will see the bees in place, if all goes well.This blog is all about the whole process from beginning to end, starting at some point with the first time I heard about bees and what motivates me now 21 years later to begin the process, hope you find it interesting.

There will be posts relating to all sorts of sites of interest and I would encourage anyone to post on here with comments.