About Us

It is all about the girls.

We set up in early 2023 with a single hive from a friend who caught a wild swarm. In 2024 we grew a bit up to 5 hives and 2025 was been the busiest yet expanding to 18 full strength hives.

We are based in the Wolds with our home apiary there and we have other apiaries in the Fens and Foothills of Lincolnshire Wolds, AONB with the majority based in the Wolds in our fruit and nut orchard.

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Our girls (and some boys) are collected from around the local area, as we’re surrounded by hectares of fields, wildflower meadows and arable farms along with wild verges. All of those weeds and plants provide food and nectar for our girls helping to feed the colony and add stores for the winter.

The majority are from swarms that have arrived on their own but some have been collected; or they’ve come from “splits” made by taking frames of eggs or queen cells (they will usually produce many queen cells at one time) and given to new and foster hives allowing the bees to do what they do best and rear their own queen.

Sometimes they turn up on their own, looking for a home and an empty hive is perfect, this was one arriving in one of the long hives I built during the summer of 2025.

Others we can go out and collect from unsuspecting home owners, in the chimney or a garden pot, we find them a home and bring them home to our apiary in the orchard.