Alveare Api · Yorkshire Beekeeper.

Alveare Api. The Yorkshire honey and beekeeping brand, and this channel is the real, unpolished journal behind it.

From our apiary in West Yorkshire, I share the full beekeeping year: inspections, winter prep, varroa, harvests and comb honey. I'm learning in public and working towards my BBKA qualifications, so you get the failures as well as the wins: lost colonies, wasp raids and feeding mistakes.

Life doesn't stop at the hive. I've just taken on a council allotment and I'm filming it from Day 1 to 365. I keep a beekeeping journal from Spain, and my nephew sends clips from his journey across Australia.

What you'll find here:
• Hive management through the seasons
• My failures and what they taught me
• Allotment Day 1 to 365
• Spain beekeeping journal
• Australian journey
• Varroa, feeding and winterising
• Kit I actually use
• Honey harvesting and jarring

Home-reared bees only, guarded by our ginger Chief Mouser. New episodes every fortnight.