When I first heard that phrase, in Sunday School as a child, my mind conjured up a very sticky scene akin to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ with waterfalls of honey and rivers of milk, it sounded rather sickly – not somewhere I wanted to live. Over the years, I’ve realised that milk and honey are simply the evidence, the fruit, of a very fertile, lush land. Bees can only make honey with bountiful flowers around and milk flows strongest when the animals are happy in pasture. This month I’ve milked a sheep and harvested honey, with minimum sticky mess…
Honey
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We have been delighted this Christmas to partner with our friends at Omlet to bring you some scrumptious recipes using eggs from our hens and honey from our bees.
Hen Corner – Christmas Treats: Choc Chilli Triangles
Hen Corner – Christmas Treats: Amaretti Biscuits -
The highs, the lows, the transfers and new captains… I can’t be the only bee keeper that has a Google Alert set up for ‘London Bees’ triggering an email each…
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We’re making a list and checking it twice As Christmas approaches, we are planning presents for family and friends and always find it lovely to receive a well-chosen gift from…
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We’ve been living the Good Life recently; the kitchen garden is booming, we’ve harvested nearly £700 worth of food, the bees are making honey and the new chicks have hatched…
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What a week we had! 300 children met our chickens on Monday, 22 pre-school children and their grown ups helped with the bee keeping on Tuesday and 60 children baked…
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Yesterday was a good day, OK it was sopping wet with so much rain that we had to postpone our Full Day Bee Keeping Course, but we had some super…
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Is it still too early to be talking about Christmas? Family members have been asking us for gift ideas for months, some people have finished their shopping and the Christmas…
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We were delighted, this weekend, to come home from the National Honey Show with an armful of awards! We’ve had a bumper crop of honey, due to all the lovely…
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‘Don’t just count your years, make your years count.‘* *George Meredith ‘I need a logo for the chutneys that I’m making as Christmas presents’ I said back in December 2009……