Bee Ed

29/01/2026

An attentive audience learning how to replace fence posts

27/12/2025

Harvest mouse Christmas

07/12/2025

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than putting together a talk on harvest mice and searching back through videos and photos?

27/11/2025

Please try and find time to watch this. Lots of worrying information but, rather unusually, by just doing things differently we can all change this

Insects are vital, fascinating, weird and wonderful. They are food, pollinators, recyclers, pest controllers, and much more, so we should be deeply concerned...

25/11/2025

Afternoon sunshine and the new grazing team

10/02/2025

Where there is a hedge being laid there must surely be ivy to be eaten

06/12/2024

Please be careful when you throw items for dogs to retrieve. Yet another tatty tennis ball found in a tussock of grass no where near the footpath. Scooped up in a tussock of grass by one of the cattle, these can cause serious problems. One of the Shetland Cattle had to be destroyed this year. We spend hours checking for debris in the grass.

26/10/2024

Good to find a harvest mouse nest on the bee reserve today. Oddly, in a bag of apple tree prunings stored open to dry out in the bee shed over the summer.

09/09/2024

Fred and Ginger working hard to keep gang ways open through all the fields this summer

12/03/2024

In January one of the cattle had to be destroyed having, most likely, swallowed something hidden in a clump of grass. Could have been anything, we find all sorts of dropped objects but most of all we find dog poo bags pushed into wall bases, drain entrances, in hedge bases and balls thrown for dogs but not retrieved and then lost in the grass. Prepping a small field for the cattle today - today's lost dog ball (unfortunate phrase, I know) count = 2. One in the hedge edge, one lost in the grass. Neither of these were on/near the footpath.

04/03/2024

It's not too late to join us on our Intermediate/Improvers' beekeeping course this coming Sunday March 10th 9-4.30. Feedback from previous years on www.BeeEd.org.uk The emphasis is on filling knowledge gaps for folk on the course, swarm prevention and management (it won't be long before the bees 'think' of trying the swarm idea) and a bit of a Varroa/disease update. Contact via the website.

04/03/2024

Dry weather - we could get used to this! A chance to lay a length of hedge before the end of 'the season'. Unusual hedge laying gear - bee suits - but the bees were flying. Two pictures - we last layed this hedge in about 2010 and created the apiary. Predictably we have always wished we made it just a bit bigger. In today's picture the hives are still wearing their winter coats made out of builders' membrane.