As we come into April ,as soon as the temperatures pick up a bit, it will be the start of swarming season which will last through to mid...

Help us to grow Ben's Berkshire Bees (and help us to support honey bees at the same time). Buying beekeeping equipment is expensive, we...

Ashmore Green Located between the Ashmore Green Road and Cold Ash, this is an established site by a small orchard, plenty of woodland and...

New for 2023 we have set up an apiary site in Midgham. These bees will be foraging over Midgham, Woolhampton, Aldermaston and down...

On Saturday we took part in the Sustainable Living Market . It was a lovely event. One of things we love about these events is meeting...

The beekeepers main job in the winter is to disturb the bees as little as possible to help them preserve energy. We check each hive once...

We have now launched online sales from website for the first time. Our range of Honey Soaps can be purchased. In time we will be adding...

This year Ben had some great successes in honey shows, proving that not only we love our bees 2022 honey. Our Chief Beekeeper, Ben...

We have been extracting and jarring our honey and now have lots available to purchase! The pictures below are Isaac's Honey - Isaac is...

We are working with a Berkshire based soap maker to produce this lovely honey soap from our very own honey. The first batch will be...

2022 has been an amazing year for honey, with beekeepers across the country reporting really high yields and here at Ben's Berkshire Bees...

It is only mid May and the weather seems to have been perfect for the bees to get into swarming mode. To prevent our bees from swarming...

This week we went to the National Honey Show for the first time. Held at Sandown Racecourse once a year the beekeeping community comes...

One of favorite days each year is when we bring back and extract the honey. The process starts in the apiary when we place clearing...

We were called to assist with a colony of bees which had decided to make their home in a hedgehog house - whilst the hedgehog still lived...

The May that has just finished has been the strangest in my beekeeping experience so far. Going from a warm April to a cold wet May the...

May through to July is the honey swarming season. When a colony is large enough it will reproduce by raising a new queen, with the old...

Last week the temperatures hit 15 degrees so it was finally warm enough to open up the hives and have our first look inside to see how...

March is the month when beekeepers start to get excited about the new season. The temperature picks up and the bees start to become...

As we enter March it is still early in the year but we are starting to see the first signs of Spring. Lots of early bulbs, Snowdrops and...