Woolpit Swarm's New Home
- May 1
- 1 min read
A swarm collected from nearby Woolpit has recently found its new home here at Rookery Farm.
Swarming is a natural part of the honeybee year. As a colony grows in strength, part of the hive may leave with a queen to establish elsewhere, a sign of a healthy, active colony, though not always ideal when they settle somewhere unexpected.
Once safely collected, the Woolpit swarm was brought back to the farm and carefully housed in a new hive. Here, they can settle, build comb, and begin gathering from the hedgerows, trees and open farmland surrounding Drinkstone.
It will take time for the colony to establish itself, but their arrival is a welcome addition to the apiary, another small chapter in the life of the farm, and a reminder that beekeeping often begins with careful stewardship rather than harvest.
For now, the focus is simple: giving the bees a calm, secure place to begin again.
