2002 Summary:

March 2002: An early start

April 2002: First inspections, and beekeeping auctions.

May 2002: An aggressive hive & a new Apiary

June 2002: Swarms

July 2002: .

August 2002: Inspections continue

September 2002: Honey collection!

October 2002: The York Honey Show: Prize winning Honey!

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2002 Summary

A snowy scene in the Apiary early 2002)

2002 was the year we expanded to a second apiary and we tasted success in the local honey show

We started with 6 hives Our main three hives and the surviving three swarms from 2001

Six hives is much too great a number of hives we enlisted Lynns help to ask one of her friends who owns a wood near the village of Flaxton if we could set-up a second apiary. The removal of two of the bee-hives eased our congestion!

By the end of the year we had a fair sized crop of the best part of 100lbs of honey. We even entered the local beekeepers honey show and we astonished to find our beginners luck resulted in second prize overall. Not bad for first timers: We can now say we produce Prize winning Honey!