by LIB2020-admin | Apr 2, 2023 | News
A van full of bees! The hive barrow (and Mark) in action The new apiary site – work in progress How do you move a honeybee colony? Well with great care is the obvious response! Moving boxes each containing 10-15,000 stingy insects is a bit scary but if you plan...
by LIB2020-admin | Oct 18, 2022 | News
Award winning honey & lemon cupcakes (third prize in the Warwickshire Beekeepers County Show!) Honey & lemon Cup Cakes Ingredients for cakes:150g (6oz) butter, softened100g (4oz) caster sugar50g (2oz) floral honey from a local beekeeper :-)Finely grated zest...
by LIB2020-admin | Oct 12, 2022 | Events, News
First National Honey Day Let’s celebrate! Friday 21 October is the first ever National Honey Day in the UK. The aim of the day is to promote delicious local honey and to highlight the increasing problem of fake ‘honey’.Honey has been used worldwide for...
by LIB2020-admin | Jul 19, 2022 | News
It’s Plastic Free July and a great opportunity to think about what we’re buying and how we can reduce the amount of plastic in our day-to-day lives. According to Greenpeace, researchers have estimated a rubbish truck of plastic ends up in the ocean every single...
by LIB2020-admin | Jan 29, 2022 | News
From propolis tincture to bee magic salve You might not have heard about it before, and it really doesn’t look much, but propolis, or bee-glue, is really amazing stuff! Bees collect it from sticky tree buds and sap and use it to coat the inside of the hive and fill...
