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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Beeswax

We got a little honey this year which was good as it's been a terrible year for bees due to the cold, wet weather. We did have an excess of wax so I'm going to have a go at making candles. I boiled up the wax combs with tap water from the water butt for half an hour and then waited until cool. The wax floats to the top and the rubbish and water stays at the bottom. I then strained through kitchen paper in a warm electric oven. The instructions came from the Reigate beekeepers website. Just looking at honey extractors now.
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