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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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11/06/2026

Gareth’s found a colony where the queen is only laying drones.

That’s a problem, because without worker bees the colony can’t keep going long-term. So he needs to remove the queen and give the colony a fresh chance by adding two new queen cells.

In this video, watch as he:
- removes queen cells (swarm cells) from another colony
- transfers them into this colony
- explains what’s happening and why, step by step

Fingers crossed they raise a new queen and she mates properly this time.

We get asked all the time why we post so many bee videos when we're trying to sell honey. Fair question.The truth is we'...
11/06/2026

We get asked all the time why we post so many bee videos when we're trying to sell honey. Fair question.

The truth is we're a bit conflicted. We could fill the feed with jars and calls to buy. It would probably work. But that's not really us. We're beekeepers first. The bees are our life. The honey is what funds us being able to keep them the way we want to.

So we show you the bees. We show you what we're actually doing out there. We show you Gareth handling frames, swarms clustering, the whole mad circus of it. And sometimes that costs us sales because people get distracted by the insects instead of thinking about breakfast.

But here's what we've learned. The people who stick around, who come back, who book experience days and tell their friends, they're the ones who saw the bees first. They connected with what we actually care about. And then they bought the honey because they understood why it matters.

10/06/2026

Queen marking time.

Gareth marks all of our queens white because he’s colour blind (simple, effective, no guessing).

Normally though, beekeepers follow a colour chart where each year has its own colour — so at a glance you can tell how old a queen is, and whether she’s this year’s queen or an older one.

It’s one of those tiny beekeeping details that makes hive checks much quicker (and saves a lot of squinting).

10/06/2026

The audacity is astonishing. You nicked our footage and tried to claim it as yours… while Gareth’s actual face is in it.

We’re real people, sharing our real story — so seeing it used to push dodgy products is honestly beyond infuriating.

It’s been removed now, but wow. The levels of deception here have properly wound us up.

10/06/2026

The full reel showing a swarm collection…

We sell nearly as much beeswax lip balm as we do honey. Which tells you something.Real beeswax has benefits that are wel...
10/06/2026

We sell nearly as much beeswax lip balm as we do honey. Which tells you something.

Real beeswax has benefits that are well documented. It's protective, it's nourishing, and it actually works. Not like those synthetic balms that sit on your lips and do nothing much.

Our lip balms are made from beeswax we produce ourselves. We don't chemically treat our hives like most beekeepers do, so the beeswax is clean and pure. No hidden chemicals. No shortcuts. Just the good stuff that comes from the whole hive.

If you spend much time outside, if you're prone to dry lips, or if you just want something that actually works, grab one. They're a no brainer to add to any honey order. And if you're buying two jars of honey, you get one free anyway.

Your lips will thank you.

09/06/2026

Swarm collection on a windy day in Sale. These lovely bees were clustered on a branch reviewing new cavities for their home. Gareth shook them gently into their new home and we watch all the returning bees landing nicely to adopt the hive box.

09/06/2026

Why I don’t want to test other honeys and share the results. It would look like I’m being mean about other honey if I showed the expected results. So you are welcome to buy a testing kit and I have tagged to order your own and share the results

We tried the market circuit last year. Full transparency, it didn't work for us.We loved the people. We genuinely did. S...
09/06/2026

We tried the market circuit last year. Full transparency, it didn't work for us.

We loved the people. We genuinely did. Standing there chatting with folks about honey, explaining the difference between our postcodes, watching people taste something they'd never tried before. That part was brilliant.

But here's what we didn't love. The 8 hours on our feet plus 2 hours of setup on our one day off. The rain that came sideways. The parade that meant nobody walked past for an hour. The cold that seeped in around 3pm. The exhaustion that followed.

We've got kids doing GCSEs. We've got sports clubs to drive to. We've got dogs that need walking. We've got 180 hives that need attention. And we've got real jobs on top of all of that.

So we made a choice. We're doing the PTA events at our kids' schools because we'd be there anyway. We're doing the Society for Abandoned Animals events because we care about that charity. Both are 2-3 hours, not 10. Both fit into our life instead of taking over our weekends.

To our friends who do markets every weekend, we have so much respect for you. Seriously. That takes dedication we just don't have right now.

09/06/2026

Testing enzyme activity in honey today using test strips from Olexa Lab (I’m pretty sure I’ve said that wrong).

Enzyme activity matters a lot in honey. If you’re taking honey for colds/flu, or for its gut-friendly/probiotic-style benefits, those enzymes are a big part of what you’re after.

Results:
- Fresh honey came out highest (no surprise there).
- Our taster pot from last year’s harvest was still in the normal-to-high range (love that).
- Supermarket honey showed zero enzyme activity… and that genuinely shocked me.

You read reports saying supermarket honey is often heavily processed (or not even fully “real” honey), but seeing it on a test strip is something else. It’s weirdly confronting when it’s right in front of you.

I’ve got two strips left… what should I test next?

Address

2 Hampson Street
Sale
M333HJ

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+447969405551

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