Honey farms, smallholdings and bees, bees and honey

Looking forward to National Honey Week

12:00pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

‘Cook Yourself Thin’ star, Harry Eastwood, will be sweetening up the 12th annual National Honey Week with her infectious personality and enthusiasm for natural, raw ingredients.

Bees Abroad Welcome Day

6:30pm Saturday 13th February 2010

Sunday 21st MARCH 2010 10.00 am – 4.00 pm National Beekeeping Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth CV8 2LG.

A guide to bees

3:27pm Friday 12th February 2010

To help beekepers Fere, part of Defra publish a regular newsletter which is reproduced below for Smallholder readers.

Honey bee health and management for Smallholders

10:10am Friday 5th February 2010

The Rural Enterprise Gateway project Knowledge Network, invite you to ‘Honey Bee Health and Management’ event on the February 10 at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6JS.

Health and management of bees seminar

4:19pm Thursday 21st January 2010

The Rural Enterprise Gateway project Knowledge Network, invite you to ‘Honey Bee Health and Management’ event on the February 10 at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6JS.

Apiary ideas at Christmas for smallholders

10:50am Thursday 17th December 2009

Brenda Davies is ready with some gift suggestions for beekeepers this festive season

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Smallholders benefit from bee keeper partnership with New Holland

5:37pm Friday 11th December 2009

New Holland, one of the UK’s leading agricultural manufacturers, has announced that it has joined the fight to find solutions to the problems which are threatening and killing dramatically high numbers of Britain’s honeybees.

Using honey for your smallholder festive fare

3:10pm Thursday 10th December 2009

Liz Wright finds some honey recipies to add sweetness to your cooking Honey was once the only method of sweetening until sugar cane was introduced and so old recipes do feature it strongly. Indeed during war time, with sugar on ration, bee keepers came into their own and honey was once again used as a sweetener. Gail Anderson-Dargatz in her strikingly evocative novel on Canadian farming, “A recipe for bees” says “During the war honey had replace sugar for canning, sweetening tea and coffee, and making cakes and cookies. Now that the war and rationing was ended, the market for honey had bottomed out. Augusta herself had dumped her honey-canned fruit once sugar was available. Everyone was hungry for sugar then, and sick and tired of honey.”

Bee keepers are winners at Countryside Live

6:00pm Monday 26th October 2009

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October New attractions and record entries in the competitive classes ensured the seventh Countryside Live was a huge success, said organisers, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Attendance through the gate was 10,014 compared with last year’s record breaking figure of 10,127.

£1m award to address honeybee decline

9:10am Tuesday 6th October 2009

Scientists at Rothamsted Research and Warwick University have been awarded £1M by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in partnership with Syngenta, to research the decline of honeybees.

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