After living in Tanzania for many years, we now live in the UK and support groups overseas as we continue to be passionate about seeing local churches transform their communities!

Thursday, 17 March 2022

Hot at the Hives

I am still blogging behind! But I have to tell you about the beekeeping we did in Olano village, about an hour outside Gulu (no elephants here!).

Amigos started this beekeeping group a number of years ago and we were delighted to visit and see how they were getting on! The women were as thrilled to see me beekeeping as I was to see them doing it (women beekeepers are in the minority here!!) We arrived in the heat of the day ... so had a meeting under the shade of a tree and then once again enjoyed some wonderful hospitality with posho and beans and meat in the slight coolness of the grass-covered mud hut. But still at 4pm it was pushing 36 degrees, so with my long sleeve sweater, beesuits and boots, I was sweltering walking across the scorched fields to the hives! 




Ready to head to the hives


It was wonderful to see their 20 hives colonised and most with lots of honeycomb! We opened a few hives to have a look and were thrilled to harvest some good capped honey from one. We are still a little early for main harvest, but it is looking very good! We stopped working the hives a little sooner than planned as a lone bull was getting rather close and acting in a peculiarly agitated fashion ... and not wishing to see the bull stung for fear of what might ensue, it seemed wise for us to clear out! 

Beautiful honey ready to harvest!

Photo credits: Joshua (Amigos)

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