Your bees will visit a circle of land roughly 30 square kilometres wide, and you probably know a fraction of what grows in it. Mapping that circle explains your gaps, your flows, and your honey.
The best beekeepers don't manage colonies on the calendar — they manage them on the bloom. Learn how to build a local forage calendar, spot the gaps, and time supers, splits, and treatments to what's actually flowering.
Rape gives you the heaviest, quickest flow of the year and punishes you for being slow. Miss the extraction window by a week and the crop sets rock hard in the comb.
Write it down at the hive
Every article here is easier to act on with your own inspection records. Start free with up to three hives.