I recently featured on the Living Being podcast, talking about my involvement with schools and honey bees. You can listen to it here, or it’s over on my Patreon as a public post. If you’d like me to talk to your school, or be on your podcast, please email me. Continue reading School Beekeeping Podcast
I was recently interviewed for the TES regarding my involvement with the bees at West Rise Junior School. You can read the article here: https://www.tes.com/news/world-bee-day-environment-create-buzz-around-climate-change-your-school Continue reading Beekeeping and Schools
We last went to visit the bees at the School Apiary on Langney Marsh in August, and we braved the breezy conditions today to go and see how they were getting on. The water was high in the lakes, and there were lots of birds on and around on the water. Swans, geese, ducks, and gulls and a snipe zig-zagged away as we made our … Continue reading Spring Check of the West Rise Bees
Today, Paul and I took a trip to check on the West Rise Junior School Apiary on Langney Marsh. Breezy but warm, we took the scenic (but buffalo-free) route to the bees, taking in the swans flying overhead, a female kestrel hunting, and some young moorhens preening on a raft of pondweed. We passed what had previously been a scrape – shallow body of water … Continue reading Autumn Check on the Marsh
Lockdown restrictions and social distancing have made it a bit challenging to visit the bees at West Rise Junior School’s Bee Sanctuary. Normally at this time of year we would be in the throes of BeeFest, the annual celebration of not just bees, but simply being outdoors and appreciating nature – a mandate which the school joyfully embraces to great effect. Last time, we had … Continue reading High Summer at the School Apiary
I was invited to come and talk to the Year 6 children at Western Road Primary School in Lewes, East Sussex, about honey bees, as they have a feral colony living in the roof of their school building. They have been there at least a few years, and are not normally particularly noticeable, but since being obliged to use the fire escape to facilitate social … Continue reading Primary School Bees
