It’s that time again. What’s everyone brewing? It’s May so depending on where you live there might be some interesting herbs available right about now.

  • Alexander
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    43 days ago

    A fellow beekeeper!

    Bochet

    TIL proper name for that thing when someone new to the art is being told to “boil your honey really well or mead will spoil”!

    How are things done there on the other side of the world? Do you move your bees to fields with these flowers, or is it just arbitrary seasonal labeling that does not really mean you are really collecting that flower dominantly?

    Would you want to try my bee sensors that listen to the bees every hour?

    • BlueÆther
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      33 days ago

      How are things done there on the other side of the world? Do you move your bees to fields with these flowers

      Rewarewa is a early bush/forest crop that we move the hives to, then they get moved off to Manuka

      Flying hives into Manuka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9yuSvimw0&ab_channel=SamS

      TIL proper name for that thing

      I’m making this, again from waste honey. I would’nt subject good honey to this treatment

      • Alexander
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        14 hours ago

        I was just thinking of caramelizing very small fraction of honey for flavor this year out of curiosity, but with my small production it will have to be good honey probably, I’m not at scale where waste appears yet. Although there is a risk to suddenly inhetit an empire from my neighbor.