Welcome to Nick’s Bees. Nick has been keeping bees since 2010 on the Hertfordshire Essex border as a hobby.
Honey
Nick’s Bees Honey is 100% natural English local honey, collected from wildflower meadows, allotments, gardens and countryside fields.
It is harvested from apiaries, then jarred by location and season, resulting in a range of deliciously different range of honeys.
Nick sells his honey from home and from local farmer’s markets.
Beeswax
Nick harvests beeswax from the processing of honey and then turns it into a range of products, most commonly candles.
Natural beeswax candles have an aroma all their own.
Blog Posts
Making dummy boards
I have found beekeeping dummy boards to be quite expensive, especially if you use 14×12 boxes like me (approx £7). As a result I have often done without, which has on occasion given me grief of brace comb to the wall, or in other cases a whole new piece of comb handing from the roof. …
Easy Mead making
Quick recipe – 1 gallon of mead Ingredients 3lb honey juice of 1 lemon (citric acid) 1 cup of black tea (tanin) 1 teaspoon yeast nutrient Yeast (wine yeast, not bread yeast) Water campden tablets (available online or at any wine making / brewing shop / wilkinsons) WARNING – clean your equipment well before it …
Winter and summer bees
Winter and summer bees differ significantly in how long they live; 4-10 weeks (usually 6) for summer bees and up to 7 months for winter bees *. What I didn’t know is that this is predestined from their time as a pupa (I had thought they just changed as an adult based on conditions). Apparently …
Contact
Nick’s Bees can be contacted as follows
Nick Holmes102 Chippingfield
Harlow
Essex
CM17 0DL
Tel : 077 307 357 52