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Jobs around the apiary for September include the important job of uniting weaker colonies, today I discuss this and some other important jobs to carry out this month. Don't forget you can catch up with the very latest podcast release on my patreon page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney here you can not only listen to the latest podcast but watch all of my beekeeping videos and at the same time support my project to bring more beekeeping content to all beekeepers around the world.

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Feeding your honeybees in preparation for Autumn and Winter can be quite a traumatic time but never fear, help is at hand! In today's podcast, we follow on from last week's chat about making sure you have a queenright colony and that any treatments for varroa have been properly applied. I discuss feeding in general and more specifically how I feed my bees in preparation for the long Winter months ahead that seem to be approaching very fast indeed!

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With August fast passing us by it's time to get the colonies in good shape for the Autumn and Winter ahead. I find there are three things I need to get sorted to make sure my colonies are in the best shape possible to get through the Winter successfully and ready for a fast start in the New Year. Make sure we have queenright colonies, make sure they have been treated for varroa where necessary and get enough feed into them to make sure they have enough stores to see them through the Winter.

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Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This month's Q&A features wax moth, hive types, dark honey and a range of other interesting questions. 

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August already! How on earth did that happen, this is episode 26 and I have no idea how the weeks have just raced passed. For me August is a kind of a bittersweet month, on the one hand it’s really exciting as this is when I take off our Summer crop of honey and on the other hand it kind of signals the push towards the end of the season. For me, there is no move to the heather to grab a late crop of honey and I don’t have any Mid-Summer into autumn flowering crops to benefit from so it really is a time to take stock of the honey production that we have achieved to the end of July and this first week of August is our extraction week. How you deal with your bees locally will of course depend greatly on whether you have alternative crops to take your bees to but for me my focus now turns to extraction, treatments for varroa when necessary and then into autumn I’ll feed to ensure the colonies are as well prepared as I can make them for the Winter that is fast approaching! Of course, I’m saying all of this in the ongoing return of the heatwave we have been experiencing here in the UK this Summer, it seems a bit daft to be talking about Winter but now is the time to get prepared. So let’s look at what I’m up to this month and that may give you some pointers as to what you might want to do or maybe plan to do depending on your local conditions. One of the important jobs for me is making sure I have enough storage space for the honey crop and with that in mind I had to order in some additional honey buckets. This year, once again I've ordered them from C.Wynn Jones, lovely people who are always ready to help and their have some very competitive prices. Check out their website at www.cwynnejones.com Don't forget you can listen to my podcasts as they are released to my patrons by signing up at www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney

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Clearing our Honey boxes ready for extraction we prefer the Rhombus clearer boards but there are several different types out there, In this week's podcast I describe a range of methods of clearing supers and succumb to a bout of Summertime Man Flu!

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Beekeeping short and sweet. A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper in fact, just like me! With local schools about to kick out for the Summer holiday’s and our politicians about to go off on their Summer recess I figured it would be a good time to sum up how the season has progressed so far by way of a school report, I remember those school reports I received when I was a kid, just the thought of them sends a shiver down my spine! I never really looked forward to them, anyway, I’ve divided my report into several sections just like the subjects at school and I’ll talk a little about each one in turn.

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