‘He was as fresh as is the month of May.’*
*Geoffrey Chaucer

May we welcome you?

We haven’t seen much of our beautiful Bunty recently as she’s currently sitting tight on 12 fertile eggs. She’s not had the opportunity to do this before as we used to use Butternut but, as Butternut sadly died earlier in the year, Bunty is rising to the challenge and only leaves the eggs for 5 minutes each morning to relieve and refresh herself before returning to her babies. We bought the eggs from a couple of different breeders and chose 6 mixed Pekins from Gillian at South Yeo Farm East and 6 Polish Frizzles from a breeder found on Ebay! They are due to hatch on Tuesday 12th May, so our course guests and visitors will get a preview of cuteness as we watch Bunty nurture her new family, hoping all goes well and we get some successful hatchings.
Coming up at the Corner – Half Term Specials!
We would love to welcome you to one of our courses that we have running right throughout the year. This month brings Intro to Bee Keeping, Bread: Sweet and Savoury, Perfect Pasta and a new course, A Day at Hen Corner. During Half Term, 25th – 29th May, we have Family Feathers and Fun! on Tuesday, Urban Hens – Keeping Chickens in London on Wednesday and Pizza Together on Thursday. Hopefully, we will be able to see Bunty proudly displaying her new chicks as a special treat to all our Half Term visitors.
Other News:
- Essential Surrey wrote this lovely article about us: Of hives and hens: country courses in May
- We’ve been talking to the London Kitchen Project and are hoping to run some courses from their exciting project in Battersea
- Sara was pleased to have helped with a recent session at the Ealing & District Bee Keepers Association, explaining how to set up an apiary and the importance of keeping records.
Jobs for this week:
- Pop up to Grand Designs Live at Excel
- Bake my Honey & Oat Cookies for our Bee Keeping Course
- See how the bees are doing at Kew Gardens
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