Natural Beekeeping

We didn’t want to feed our bees, wanting to stay as close as possible to the Warre principles, but in South West, Cornwall the bees are low on supplies, a mixture of early flowering and a wet August.

To avoid what looks like staving of our bees over the winter months we have decided to feed the bees sugar, however we are really now too late in the year, as the bees activity and therefore conversion of supplies into honey is now reduced. 

Thanks again to the internet, www.biobees.com we have decided to use a dry sugar method using baker’s sugar and a top feeder that will sit on the hive during the winter and early autumn.

Please see the data provided by a gentleman called Larry Garrett, details of this method can also be found on www.warrebeek.com/dryfeeder.html

I am now building a new feeder; I also want a relatively cold winter and Spring to be on time.