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How to tell if a hive is alive in winter.

Is this anything to do with love. The Gift of the Bee. In conjunction with other like-minded beekeepers, the Natural Beekeeping Trust. If you like what you read here, on our website.

Top Bar ApiRevolution has begun! Lets make some inexpensive Top Bar Hives and let them be pesticide free on their own natural comb! Che Guebee is a rebel bee fighting for the survival of the Biodiversity we all depend on and which is seriously endangered by deforestation and mono-crop agriculture! Hop Wood Carry Water Plant Seeds. Friday, July 10, 2015. Snow-white honey and bee forage. The Calendula, Borage and Honey Phacellia are growing very well and is covered in all sorts of bees.

Why Top Bar Hives? Wednesday, August 12, 2015. All that moisture for the plants means more nectar for the bees. It does my heart good watching them zip back and forth across the yard.

Burgess Park Food Project and the story so far. George makes sure a hen knows his legs are off-limits. Considered to be redundant and past their prime, ten pretty hens were transported from their factory farm to our garden on 26th July. A few days later, bossy Sarah arrived, from a good home in Brixton.

Our story of how we renovated an old cottage, dug a veg garden, bought a jersey cow, added some pigs,chickens and bees. Wednesday, 3 June 2015. Bee keeping - inspecting the hives this morning. The queen has just been marked with blue paint. Blue represents year 0 or 5. In this case this queen is a 2015 queen. Bees busy at the entrance of one of the hives. Bees bringing in pollen at one of the poly nuclei. Friday, 29 May 2015.

We are an urban homestead based on natural, holistic and sustainable principles. Our livestock includes chickens and honey bees and we cultivate fruits, vegetables and kitchen herbs. The last couple of years here at our urban farm have been eye opening for our family. One of the key st.