Sustainable beekeeping, chickens, and cake
The hives at the Pevensey & Westham Community Forest Garden have done well this year, and are a valuable part of the permaculture ethos of the site. They are health-checked and regularly observed, but otherwise left to their own devices. Following a compost workshop, one of the attendees noticed a swarm in one of the … Continue reading Swarm at the Forest Garden
In 2015 I helped set up a community apiary with Andy Durling in Westham, East Sussex, with sustainable beekeeping at its core. The difficulty with setting up community bee activities is that there is often generous funding to establish the apiary - hives, bees, beesuits, smokers, extractors - but no money to fund the ongoing … Continue reading Forest Garden Bees