The Hum of the Hive
Join beekeeper Anthony in Herefordshire and south east Wales as he tends to his beehives, listens and talks to his bees, and extracts their honey.
Beekeeper Anthony Smith looks after several hundred beehives across Herefordshire and south east Wales. This episode of Slow Radio takes us to one of his apiaries where we eavesdrop on Anthony鈥檚 activities. It鈥檚 the middle of the summer, and the bees are at their busiest.
Many of the sounds of bees and beekeeping have barely changed for thousands of years, whereas others are distinctly modern. We鈥檒l hear single bees collecting nectar as they move from flower to flower, and clusters of bees jostling against each other inside a busy hive. The beekeeper releases puffs of smoke to calm his bees as he inspects their work and we can hear the subtle differences in buzzing between a colony with or without a queen.
Over in the workshop, or 鈥榟oney room鈥�, we witness the processes that transform a frame of honeycomb into a pot of honey, from the spinning of the frames to the filling of the jars.
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