Our apiaries are situated in various locations, within a mile of the picturesque River Ribble, in the South Ribble area of Preston. This gives our bees the opportunity to feed from the wealth of wild flowers growing along side the river, and everything that grows in the local farmers fields. By situating some of our hives in local authority allotments, our bees help local growers, by pollinating all their produce for the year. Our hives based in our local woodland, benefit from woodland flowers, and also help the local farmers by pollinating their crops. Each of our hives have up to 50000 native British bees in the height of summer, going down to 10000 during the winter months. During the swarm season, any swarms that we collect that are not British, are re queened with a British black bee, to help save our native British colonies.They are placed into a hive, and managed to prevent re swarming. A well established hive can produce 30lbs plus of Lancashire honey a year, because we take the bees source of winter food, during winter the bee keeper needs to feed the bees, while they rest in their hive, they are fed with a solution of sugar and water, without this support they would starve throughout the winter. Also they need to be given medicine to prevent illness such as varroa mite.

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