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🐝 Beekeepers in South Manchester 🐝 Keeping treatment-free bees, selling pure honey, handmade soap & offering unforgettable bee experience days🍯✨
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30/08/2026

Stretford honey 2026 is looking good

That first jar of honey hits differently.Ask any new beekeeper, and they’ll tell you: it takes two years of hard graft, ...
30/08/2026

That first jar of honey hits differently.

Ask any new beekeeper, and they’ll tell you: it takes two years of hard graft, endless weather-checking, the heartbreak of sudden queenless hives, and extraction days that leave your entire kitchen sticky for weeks.

By the time you slap a label on that first jar, it has realistically cost you about £1,000 to produce.

The good news? We’ve put in the years, fine-tuned the craft, and turned extraction into a fine art—so you don’t have to pay artisan-mistake prices.

Pure, raw honey, straight from our hives to your toast. 🐝✨

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If you treat at every opportunity, you’ll never actually know what your bees are capable of.We’re told (often with the b...
30/08/2026

If you treat at every opportunity, you’ll never actually know what your bees are capable of.

We’re told (often with the best intentions) that if you don’t treat, they’ll die. If you don’t feed, they’ll die. And yes—sometimes that’s true. But here’s the uncomfortable question:

At what point do we give a colony the chance to show us whether it can survive without constant human intervention?

We already know the genetics and behaviours exist for bees to cope with varroa. And now we’ve got peer-reviewed studies backing up what many have been seeing for years in the real world.

But if we medicate every time the calendar tells us to…
we don’t select for resilience. We select for dependence.

And think about swarms for a second. If we treated every swarm immediately:
- We’d likely see more absconding (because we’ve disrupted a colony that’s in the most sensitive “new home” phase)
- We’d learn nothing about the bees’ natural coping behaviours—because we never let them show us

How do you find the traits you want… if you never allow them to appear?

What worries me most is what we teach beginners. If “treatment is the only option” is the first and loudest message they hear, we scare them away from curiosity and observation. We train them to panic instead of learn. And then when a swarm absconds, they’re left confused—because nobody taught them that heavy-handed intervention can be part of the problem.

This isn’t a call to be reckless. It’s a call to be honest:

If we never stop intervening, we’ll never know which colonies could have made it.
And we’ll never breed or keep bees that can.

What do you think—are we managing bees… or managing our own fear?

Specifying where the honey has come from is now law in the EU but not in Britain. That Rowse honey shocked me because i...
29/08/2026

Specifying where the honey has come from is now law in the EU but not in Britain. That Rowse honey shocked me because it used to be a respected british brand. Now it is 90% from China - the country with the most honey adulteration in the world the air miles in this product are huge.

2027 dates are now on the website so if you missed 2026 book now. We have max 8 people per session with two beekeepers ...
28/08/2026

2027 dates are now on the website so if you missed 2026 book now. We have max 8 people per session with two beekeepers so you get loads of one on one help. Great for anyone that loves nature, is thinking out getting bees or just likes learning something a bit different. Engaging and fun with great reviews.

Extraction season usually brings out a bit of friendly rivalry between us.We had a competition to test which tool works ...
27/08/2026

Extraction season usually brings out a bit of friendly rivalry between us.

We had a competition to test which tool works best for uncapping the wax. As you can probably guess from my expression here, Gareth won this round with his knife.

That said, the knife only works if you have picture-perfect, flat frames like his. For all the lumpy, uneven frames we get 90% of the time, my trusty uncapping fork is the real hero for getting into those low spots.

It is messy work, but doing this as a husband and wife team makes the long days so much fun. Even if we end up covered in honey from head to toe.

Two hours deep-diving into varroa tonight: how they reproduce, how to monitor them, and the NBU’s current treatment opti...
26/08/2026

Two hours deep-diving into varroa tonight: how they reproduce, how to monitor them, and the NBU’s current treatment options. Honestly… great fun (yes, I’m that person). All in exam-mode now.

For the next week I’m going to stick strictly to treatment-based info, because that’s what’s on the syllabus. Then I’ll be right back down the “treatment-free” methods - there are some seriously interesting scientific reports out there, and I’ve already spotted a brilliant line-up of talks on treatment-free methods at the National Honey Show in October.

Worth saying: I won’t be discussing treatment-free approaches during the exam, simply because it isn’t covered in the BBKA basic exam (though I believe it’s been added to the more advanced modules).

25/08/2026

Adding the clearer boards so we can remove the honey boxes tomorrow and the bees will have all travelled down to the bottom box…well that is the theory. We have wrapped them so there are no possible little holes for the bees to get back into the top boxes.

Extraction day is easily my favorite part of this whole job.People are often surprised by how simple the process actuall...
25/08/2026

Extraction day is easily my favorite part of this whole job.

People are often surprised by how simple the process actually is. Admittedly, we have scaled up to some bigger machines now to keep up with demand, but fundamentally it is still the exact same process.

We put the honeycomb frames into the spinner, and the honey flows out through a simple sieve straight into the bucket. We do not heat it, we do not blend it, and we do not add a single thing. It is just raw, natural honey, exactly as the bees made it.

Gareth and I have built this business around keeping things honest and simple. Doing the extraction together like this, hands-on, is a reminder of why we fell in love with beekeeping in the first place.

24/08/2026

Now that I have used a drill for the first time ever, and demonstrated what might be the slowest screw driving in history, I feel like I have learned a new skill.

Does every beekeeper end up doing this much woodwork, or is it just us?

Address

2 Hampson Street
Sale
M333HJ

Opening Hours

Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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+447969405551

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