Bee Lucky Honey

Bee Lucky Honey To create a greater awareness and understanding of the Honey Bee as well as selling locally produced honey from our bees foraging in and around Oswestry.

Come along and see us today. We have lots of honey and live bees to see.
02/08/2025

Come along and see us today. We have lots of honey and live bees to see.

We're all set up for Oswestry Show tomorrow.
Come along to our stand. Plenty of honey to taste or buy, plus a hive of real bees.

Still spaces available for September at our lovely village school.
15/07/2025

Still spaces available for September at our lovely village school.

Why not book yourself in for a lovely meal at The Navigation Inn and pick up a jar of Maesbury Marsh honey, produced by ...
14/06/2025

Why not book yourself in for a lovely meal at The Navigation Inn and pick up a jar of Maesbury Marsh honey, produced by our bees that forage along the Montgomery Canal and surrounding countryside. You can also pick up a jar at Munslow Cottage in Maesbury Marsh.

Local honey for sale today for 'Oswestry Green Day' situated at the top of the town (market area.) Also, a chance to lea...
14/06/2025

Local honey for sale today for 'Oswestry Green Day' situated at the top of the town (market area.) Also, a chance to learn about our precious honey bees and how you can help them. Meet and chat with members of Oswestry Beekeepers' Association. Hope to see you there.

What a great day we had hosting our out apiary visit for Oswestry beekeepers. The weather was kind and the bees were as ...
31/05/2025

What a great day we had hosting our out apiary visit for Oswestry beekeepers. The weather was kind and the bees were as busy as ever.

23/05/2025

2 queens bees together in the same hive.

09/05/2025
24/04/2025

The queen's happy.

24/04/2025

First post of a new season in the beekeeping world.

01/09/2024

Little honey bees as busy as ever.🐝♥️

The wonderful world of the honey bee.
08/08/2024

The wonderful world of the honey bee.

The Social Insect

Honey Bees are a social insect that live in colonies. Their success within the colony depends on numerous things such as: the health of a fertile Queen, good health within the colony with no disease, good management of varroa, (a parasitic mite that is harmful to the bees,) a good home and environment with plenty of nectar/ pollen rich plants nearby and most importantly, good communication! Undoubtedly, without all of these elements in check the colony would collapse and die.
Honey bees are constantly communicating with each other and one of the ways in which they do this is by performing the Waddle Dance. You may have heard of this term, it's when a forager bee returns to the hive and performs a series of dance - like movements which is to tell other forager bees where a good source of food can be found. It informs them of the distance and direction etc of this food source so that they too can benefit from this valuable information by going directly there. Other forms of communication are done by passing on pheromones and the exchanging of food. This ensures that every bee within the colony is not only well nourished but is up to date with the latest news, which is predominately about the Queen and that she is laying well and in good health. Every single bee conveys messages to control and operate each job within the colony.
However, the down side to these forms of communication are that they are all in it together. So should something go wrong like disease or the food runs out, it's not just a section of bees that would die but the whole colony and sometimes depending on the circumstances, it could be in a matter of hours.
As a beekeeper I have the privilege to observe these wonderful insects in the privacy of their own home, the hive! You witness first hand them going about their daily tasks and how they are in perfect harmony with each other. You can tell from observation that despite there being tens of thousands of them they really do all know what's going on. So therefore it's just as important for us beekeepers to continue our work with good management as it is for all of us to help preserve natural habitat. We can also plant pollen and nectar rich plants in our gardens, so that these remarkable insects can continue to thrive.
Joanne Henders

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How Does A Black Country Girl End Up Becoming A Lowton Beekeeper?

How does someone born and bred in the Black Country end up becoming a Beekeeper in Lowton? Well it started when I left Tipton to marry Mark, my now husband. He was born and lived on Slag Lane until he left at the age of 18 to join the Army. We married in 1992 in Tipton but lived in Berlin as our first posting. Soon after we were posted to Scotland and remained in the Army for a further five years.

After leaving the forces in 1998 we decided to start up a gardening/ landscaping business, just about the same time our daughter was born. The business prospered for 20 years and during this time we really started to take an interest in nature and conservation. It allowed us to help local wildlife to come and thrive in some of the gardens and grounds we looked after, we could plant wild flower areas, dig ponds and plant indigenous trees. In our own garden we did the same and also encouraged lots of wild birds to come to feed and nest. With all that was going on in the garden, I took an interest in the bees that visited and consequently completed a basic Beekeeping Course in 2014. I was keen to keep my own bees but when our daughter decided to leave home to join the RAF we thought it was maybe time to move south and live closer to family.

Having visited Mark's family many times over the years, I was no stranger to Lowton and this seemed as good a place as any to settle. So in 2016 we brought a bungalow near the bottom of Slag Lane, overlooking the fields at the back. This just might be the perfect place for me to achieve my ambition to look after my own hive.

We completed the renovation on the bungalow in 2017, totally changing inside and out. The garden now had a wildlife pond, natural field ditch and wild flower areas, we also put up plenty of nesting boxes for the birds. We have bird feeders that are in constant need of filling and feeding posts that are used by Woodpeckers, Blue T**s and Great T**s etc.