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Grow It! Magazine – April ’13

| 4th April 2013

It was a pleasure to talk to Dawn Francis-Pester about our daily life at Hen Corner for a feature in Grow It! Magazine

Grow It! Magazine – April ’13 was last modified: February 8th, 2018 by Sara Ward

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We are buzzing this week 🐝🐝🐝 Bee Keeping

We are buzzing this week 🐝🐝🐝
Bee Keeping every day…
Tuesday: Full Day Bee Keeping
Followed by installing a new hive on the allotment
Wednesday: Bees for Children
Followed by chatting to a PhD student researching bee keeping amongst children and young adults.
Thursday: Intro to Bee Keeping for Home Educated students.
Followed by inspecting the bees in our charity apiary.
*Check out our website for full details of our bee keeping courses and schools work (and how to buy our honey 🍯!)
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Runner beans are in their bed… These are destine

Runner beans are in their bed…
These are destined for this year’s Garden Piccalilli - our popular pickle that won a @guildoffinefood #GreatTasteAward last year 🙌🏻

It was good to back at the plot today, especially

It was good to back at the plot today, especially with a sunny bank holiday weekend…
#allotmentlife

We had a great gang over for Introduction to Makin

We had a great gang over for Introduction to Making Cheese today…🧀
We started with 48ltrs (that’s 85 pints!) of beautiful Organic Unhomogenised Pasteurised Whole Milk from @abelandcole then added cultures and used moulds from @moorlandscheese
Here is Nic pouring whey from the curds, we used the whey to bake bread…
We ended up with:
8 Camemberts
8 Batches of Feta
8 Big Balls of Mozzarella
Plus a loaf of bread and a bag of Rosemary Biscuits each
*Next course Wednesday 16th August*
#blessedarethecheesemakers 🧀🧀🧀

It was great to be back at @syonparkofficial for t

It was great to be back at @syonparkofficial for their annual School’s Day with @countrysidelearning 🐓🐓🐓
We worked with 10 groups of 30 throughout the day, talking about the smallholding that would have been in the grounds to feed everyone that lived and worked in the house and estate.
We looked at the joys and responsibilities of looking after chickens and all 300 pupils had a soft stroke of a hen 🐓🐓🐓

Today, on #WorldBeeDay, in a community workshop in

Today, on #WorldBeeDay, in a community workshop in @brentfordecogarden we talked about the wide variety of bees throughout the world and looked for as many varieties as possible foraging in the wildlife area. Back at home, I merged a weak queenless honeybee colony with a strong colony and was down from 9 colonies to 8 for just over an hour… Then I split my largest colony to prevent them from swarming, so I’m back up to 9.
I was self controlled and declined the opportunities to collect two more swarms today, one from a friend’s garden and one up the road in Chiswick. But I ensured that other bee keepers collected and re-hived them.
Bees are so vital both as pollinators and contributors to our ecosystems. Honeybees are just one of 20,000 species of bees worldwide, most honeybees have beekeepers to look after them, solitary bees, bumblebees and all the other species are the bees that need saving. Feed them by planting flowers, refresh them by providing shallow water with pebbles (so they don’t drown), protect them by avoiding pesticides and respect them by allowing them to forage freely.
#savethebees
Oh, and if you like honey, find your local bee keeper - it will bee amazing 🐝🐝🐝
#ComeOnYouBees #COYB

Saturday 20th May is #WorldBeeDay 🐝 A time to a

Saturday 20th May is #WorldBeeDay 🐝
A time to appreciate all the hard work that these busy pollinators do, contributing to so much of our food and beautiful flowers.
The honeybees that we keep at Hen Corner are just one type of bee amongst the 280 species throughout the UK (20,000 in the world). Respect bees, plant for pollinators and buy delicious honey from your local beekeeper!
🍯🐝🐝🐝🌺🌸🌼🌻

I just love my job… Today I was making pasta wit

I just love my job…
Today I was making pasta with the Reception Classes at @threebridgessch and we started by collecting eggs from the chickens and DUCKS!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

What an amazing day we had at @threebridgessch tod

What an amazing day we had at @threebridgessch today teaching Reception class (4&5yr olds) how to make pasta… 🍝🍝🍝
We started the session by visiting the chickens & ducks to collect eggs then off to the classroom to knead & roll the dough before cutting it into a variety of shapes.
“The best pasta in the world!”
“Look Miss, this spaghetti is as tall as me!”
I don’t know who had the most fun…
#Education #Children #Schools
If you know a school who would like us to visit, check out our website, link in bio…

What a wonderful way to present our book to a smal

What a wonderful way to present our book to a small group of book sellers, book shop owners and friends from the media.
“Living the Good Life in the City” is out in July and signed copies can be pre-ordered from our website now 🤗
🐓🐝🍞🧀🍯🍏🍎🍐🍇🥚🥯

We’ve found and marked TWO new queen bees today!

We’ve found and marked TWO new queen bees today!
The first is only a week or so old the second is from a swarm I collected 10 days ago.
Most bee keepers will be marking their queens with a red dot for 2023 🔴
We are marking with pink dots this year in memory of Pat, my wonderful mother in law, who died in March. 🟣

And then there were NINE! Read all about the recen

And then there were NINE!
Read all about the recent swarms collected and our new Scandi Baking course in our latest blog post *link in bio

Happy Spring Time! 🌷🌷🌷

Happy Spring Time!
🌷🌷🌷

Calling all course guests and customers! If you ha

Calling all course guests and customers!
If you had a great time with us and are enjoying our products, do share photos tagging in @HenCorner #HenCorner 😁
P.S. Our Apricot Couronne is available this week as a Coronation Special 😋

New life in the garden! Tadpoles enjoying the May

New life in the garden!
Tadpoles enjoying the May Bank Holiday 🐸

After another fabulous *Introduction to Bread Maki

After another fabulous *Introduction to Bread Making* last week (zoom in on those treats 🤤) we just added in a new date: Wednesday 2nd August
Full details on Website > Courses > Bread & Baking

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