Comments on: Bee Update

By: goo

goo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:34:55 +0000

Thanks Jane, I’ll definitely look into this!

By: Jayemsee

Jayemsee — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:41:22 +0000

Hi Goo, I agree, a lovely post, I also will move my Oregano this autumn.
As for your worries about keeping bees and the posibility of disease etc, I suggest you look into Natural Beekeeping – I just did a course last weekend which was wonderful and extremely eye-opening. Keeping bees in a much more natural way can greatly reduce their likelyhood of being seriously compromised by pests and diseases. Please check out the Natural Beekeeping Trust who ran my course, they are delightful people and you will learn so much about a bee-friendly way of keeping bees while also helping their decreasing numbers. Jane xx

By: goo

goo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:09 +0000

That sounds good to me. We’d also like to keep bees but many beekeepers around here have been affected by CCD and we’re a little apprehensive. We don’t want our first attempts at livestock keeping to end in mass death! Good luck to you, we’ll be following any progress you make. I hope other readers willl be heading over to http://environmentchaos.blogspot.com to see what you’re up to up there as well.

By: Kester

Kester — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:32:50 +0000

Excellent post! Up here in Shetland we get fewer species of bees, the season is short but intense. I am considering trying to keep bees up here using a top-bar hive, top bar hive beekeeping is a more sustainable approach than the standard movable frame type of hive keeping, a good site for info is http://www.biobees.com/

Anyway
Have Fun

By: goo

goo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:29:51 +0000

Very kind of you both to say so. If I could find a blushing emoticon it would be here, my dashboard’s playing some awful games with me today!

By: Bird

Bird — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:11:19 +0000

This is a gorgeous post – and now I know that I need to move my marjoram nearer to my carrots just in case of carrot flies! These are great pictures Goo, I have spent many hours trying and failing to get good shots of bees. I’m now going to go and check out that bee identification tool – what a mine of useful stuff you are!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:54:30 +0000

Beautiful post! Thanks for the tip about oregano – I have known entirely too much of the stuff, but it DOES attract an amazing range of pollinators. Will have to work at spreading some of what we’ve got around a bit more for the benefit of its floral neighbors!!

What a lovely blog!