How To Manage Thousands Of Beehives With David Wainwright. And at the same time get massive honey crops!
In this video I spend the day with David Wainwright from Wainwrights Bee Farm. Or also known as Tropical Forest. Their a honey farm based near Aberystwyth in Wales. But their bees are kept across the whole of the UK.
Wainwrights Bee Farm keeps around 1,800 full size beehives and 700 nucs. They are one of the biggest bee farms in the UK. Supplying honey right across the UK to small independent shops all the way up to supermarket giant Marks and Spencers. They also sell their premium honey into shops like Harrods of London.
David keeps his bees in a different way to most people. He spends a huge amount of time and resource on making up nucs....1,000 every year! But they get 700 good ones from that. These are his replacement stocks.
David does not spend any time doing weekly beekeeping inspections. Instead he opts to taking a frame or two out of the strong colonies and gives them plenty of space in early spring. He puts 5 honey supers on every colony in May.
Wainwrights Bee Farm was setup by David 50 years ago after doing his beekeeping apprentership with David Rowse from Rowse Honey. (The original Rowse when it was owned by the family)
A totally different Rowse to what you see in the supermarket today.
In one generation David has built one of the biggest and most successful bee farms in the UK with his unique way of beekeeping.
We all could learn a lot from David he is truly an inspirational beekeeper and a champion of British Honey.
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