BespokeBees at the mill
Keep bees, properly.
“Pollination, new perceptions, pure joy and a life of appreciation.” Harry has kept bees for eight years and looks after thirty-five hives. He can look after yours too.
Meet HarryA Full Hive Management Service
Everything from installation through to honey in your jars, or roll your sleeves up and learn it alongside him.
BespokeBees provides a full hive and colony management service: installation, fortnightly inspections, colony management, honey extraction and overwintering. You can leave the lot to Harry, or get hands on and learn beekeeping as you go.
Every colony is very placid, bred for calmness and low aggression, and comes with a new queen. They are raised in a family apiary with plenty of noise and movement around them, including one very loud dog, so they are used to life going on nearby.
Why keep beesOne in Every Three Bites
One in every three bites of food we eat exists because of bees. Keeping a hive is one of the most useful things you can do for the land around you.
Pollination
A hive changes a garden, an orchard or a field. The difference in what grows around a colony in its first full season is hard to believe until you have watched it happen.
Your own honey
Expect upwards of twenty to thirty jars a year, full of the natural enzymes and vitamins that get processed out of the stuff on the supermarket shelf.
A good deed
Bee populations need all the help they can get. Putting a well managed colony into the landscape is one of the simplest things you can do for it.
What's includedThe Year, Taken Care Of
Beekeeping is a year round job, and most of it happens when nobody is watching. Here is what the service covers.
- Hive installation and siting
- A fully established colony
- New queen with each colony
- Fortnightly inspections
- Swarm and disease management
- Feeding through lean spells
- Honey extraction
- Overwintering the colony
- Hands on learning if you want it
- Advice whenever you need it
Two ways inRent a Hive or Own One
Rent one to try it, or buy outright and it is yours for good. Either way the management service is the same.
Rent a hive
£80 Per month, rollingA rolling monthly fee with no long tie-in. The hive and the colony stay ours, the honey and the pollination are yours, and Harry does the heavy lifting.
Enquire About RentingBuy a hive
£650 One-off purchaseA fully established Yorkshire Black Bee colony and a cedar WBC hive, yours outright. Add the management service if you would like it looked after.
Enquire About BuyingFancy a hive?
Give us a ring or drop us a line and we will talk through where it would go, what it needs, and how much honey you would be looking at.
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