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From our delicious honey, handmade soaps, shampoo bars, balms, beeswax wraps and polish - we owe everything to the ingenuity of our amazing bees! You can follow our fascinating journey here on the blog, or at the very least you'll get to read our bee-obsessed musings...

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Colin Wood

Mar 23
2 min

Why use traditional handmade soaps?

'Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants'. So said William Osler, and he should know as he was the 'father of modern medicine'. As the sup...

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Colin Wood

Aug 10, 2019
1 min

100% cotton hand knitted flannels and sisal soap savers.

Coral and yellow and blue and sage, violet and orange and rose. I can sing a rainbow and tell you that we now have a colourful range of hand-knitted, 100% co...

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Colin Wood

Jul 21, 2019
2 min

It's a wrap! - the hand crafted alternative to cling film

An environmentally friendly way of keeping your food and sandwiches fresh and protected

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Colin Wood

Jul 4, 2019
1 min

Summer honey is in production.

There's a buzz in the air. A short walk up the lane here at Bouchland will reward you with the reassuring hum of the buzzy miracles enjoying the blackberry b...

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Colin Wood

May 11, 2019
3 min

It's swarm here on the farm

After a run of bad weather, as the temperature rises the beekeeper has to be vigilant during hive inspections to spot any signs of swarm preparations and rea...

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Colin Wood

May 3, 2019
1 min

What's a bee's favourite food ?

Well honey really, but they do like getting the ingredients from the humble Dandelion. Ignoring their status as weeds, dandelions are actually quite pretty a...

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Colin Wood

Apr 18, 2019
2 min

I've met the Queen

I didn't have to go to London; she was right here in Devon! As the sun shone I took the opportunity of moving her onto some nice clean comb to lay eggs in. I...

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Colin Wood

Apr 3, 2019
1 min

The BEEMOBILE

We've pimped our ride, so if you see us around give us a cheeky wave. Thanks be to Dave at Blue Orange signs in South Molton for interpreting my ideas.

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Colin Wood

Mar 7, 2019
1 min

HONEY BEE POLLEN LEGGINGS

The heart soars when you see the bees going into the hive wearing the latest fashion in pollen leggings. It means that there is a laying Queen in there and s...

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Colin Wood

Mar 4, 2019
1 min

SHAMPOOCH - hand-made soap for dogs.

Apparently Queen Zee has been testing this on me for weeks. How things have changed eh! My hair feels clean, soft and vibrant and I'm told I smell great too....

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Colin Wood

Mar 2, 2019
1 min

MAVIS loves a Camellia

The recent warm weather has drawn the girls out for a bit of fun. Mavis sneaks up on a Camelia whilst her sisters have dived right in. Great to see but we ar...

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Colin Wood

Jan 20, 2019
1 min

Happy bees first venture out this year

The little ladies were out yesterday enjoying the sunshine. We don't want them too active whilst there is no forage, but it warms the heart to know that they...

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Colin Wood

Jan 9, 2019
1 min

Hand made lip balms - pucker up, smooth on & smile.

Queen Zee has been bizzy creating a range of hand-made lip balms to make you go 'oooh'. Each one contains beeswax, almond oil and cocoa butter to keep those ...

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