Norfolk Honey - apiaries - Postwick
Postwick apiary
Postwick 2014
Box MC6 Costessy swarm 2013
Deep12 Hall road swarm 2013
Postwick 2013
Had a great crop of fireweed at one end of the site. In the spring I added three collected swarms to the stock that had been somewhat depleted due to the long hard winter and the need to move bees out of Postwick to Sprowston. Postwick is quite well protected from both the North and the East and the survival rate of colonies getting through the winter was much better than at Sprowston.
Postwick 2012
I have begun to clear the site of the large Budlia bushes
Postwick 2011
Postwick has continued to grow as an apiary for me and there are now twenty
nine colonies there (September 2011). All of the colonies from my allotment
were moved there. There is a mixture of bees there including three swarms picked
up this year.
The start of Postwick for me in 2008
At the start of the beekeeping year (2008) I took over Norman's Postwick
apiary and bought from him the three hives of bees he was keeping there.
During the year Postwick has become a useful breeding station and now there are ten colonies in my Postwick Apiary.
The bees in Postwick are descends of:
Norman's Postwick - the three colonies that were there to start with.
Normans Thorpe that were moved there as queen cells.
Descendants from a daughter from Rosemary's (2006) Gentle Greek Queen that I moved there and unighted with one of the three original Postwick hives at the start of the year.
And a Hellsdon squarm that was taken there and re-queened.