Category Archives: Agriculture

Building Beehives

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Svend Rumbold

Last week Tim ran a weekend course at his workshop, teaching how to build beehives, and it prompted considerable discussion about the health and viability of the UK’s honey bees. The importance of bees for plant pollination is enormous and, … Continue reading →

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Highs and Lows of Chickens in the Garden

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Svend Rumbold

Keeping a handful of chickens in the garden has increasingly become the “in thing” in recent years.  We too keep a few hens, and have just acquired two new ones following the loss of the second of our original “ex-batts” … Continue reading →

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Chalk Downland isn’t Just Buttercups and Daisies.

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Svend Rumbold

Most days I take the dog for a walk over Fovant Down, and around this time of year the grassland bursts into a mass of wild flowers.  It’s all too easy to look no further than the familiar buttercups and … Continue reading →

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A Bee in my Bonnet

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Svend Rumbold

I have decided……. Spring is here! I was going to post something about planting for spring interest, but that will have to wait as my thoughts drifted to spring of last year, when I kept finding dead bumble bees on … Continue reading →

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