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This page is for organisations, who would like to Restore and enhance nature – through ‘biodiversity net gain’
Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE is built specifically for you guys.
With a bespoke contract or arrangement specific to your needs.
What we are offer
Total customization to your needs.
We offer a system of having beehives on site with the minimum amount of aggravation, hassle, and cost.
From supply only (£200.00 + P&P per hive kit when buying 5 or more at a time), to a partly or fully all-inclusive contract.
If you choose the convenience of a contract, here are some of the items you can have:
Training for people on site
(This will cover aspects such as hive location, what to do to protect the public and fellow workers, the hive life cycle, and what to look for and expect at different times of the year.)
Site survey
I provide a free walk-round and basic training with each delivery. However, a full site survey will give you a documented assessment of your site, outlining potential locations and how many hives your site can support, as well as a system for adding hives over a number of years if required.
Supply and installation
We will not only supply but also install if required (£250.00/day + travel and accommodation if needed).
This includes the three common location types:
- Installation on the ground, either with or without a base
- Installation in trees
- Installation on walls. This can be done in a number of ways, including for listed walled gardens. We use a stainless steel strap that fits on top of the wall with no damage to the historic integrity of the structure
Quarterly inspections
There are four phases in the annual life of a honey bee colony. We can inspect your hives and provide a written report with feedback to stakeholders. This is useful for annual reports, company magazines, and local newspapers.
DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs)
If you wish to take a small amount of honey from your hives, we can register, update, and manage all requirements with DEFRA.
Liability insurance
For peace of mind, if your current insurers do not provide cover for beehives, we can include cover under our existing policy.
Honey
A useful PR tool. If you would like some honey, we can provide a service where we install honey boxes, monitor them, and then remove and process the honey for you. You will receive your honey either in the comb or in jars as runny honey.
(This is only available as an add-on to the quarterly service contract. Please note this is not a production hive, and honey yields can be variable as they are environmentally dependent.)
Moving of hives
We provide a service to relocate hives if required.
Swarm catching
We generally do not advocate catching swarms outside your local area. However, if you have empty hives, we offer a service to catch and install swarms on site.
These are just some of the services we provide.
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WHY?
Great PR
With everyone well aware of the plight of honey bees, how can we help? Real help. The ECO-BEEHIVE / GARDENERS BEEHIVE is always very well received by both the general public and industry.
Pollination security
Pollination security is having a system where you can measure the amount of potential pollinators you have. This can rely on:
- Imported, bought-in bumblebees
- Honey bees kept by beekeepers
- GARDENERS BEEHIVES
Where do you get your pollinators—bought bumblebees, or by chance from wild insects?
With the Gardeners Beehive:
- Reduce total reliance on boxed bumblebees
- Increase honey bee numbers without suppressing existing pollinators
- Increase pollination security without needing beekeepers
In addition to wild insects, you will have measurable pollinators within the hive. A Gardeners Beehive is low maintenance, and most monitoring can be fully automated and carried out remotely.
WHY NOT?
Once installed, the hives have to be baited until bees move in, or local swarms can be captured and installed. After that, there is little to no maintenance or servicing required.
However, if you would like to be registered on the DEFRA database, this must be periodically updated and the hives inspected. We can provide this service.
What are the cost?
Please give me a call or email for more information. We can then provide you with a comprehensive price list and work out something that will suit your organisation specifically.
Here is a general outline:
Hives are sold, ideally, in batches of 10.
£2,000.00 (no VAT)
Additional postage of approximately £70.00 per consignment within the UK, and more for Europe.
I am available to come to site to provide initial training as well as advise on the siting of hives.
Quarterly or annual visits can be arranged. Pricing will vary depending on the services required and your location within the UK or Europe.
DID YOU KNOW
You can have bees in close proximity to the public.
Here is the key point: if the entrance to the hive is about three metres or more above the public, the bees are unlikely to bother them, as bees generally do not fly lower than the entrance when coming and going. This can be seen at a number of National Trust and RHS sites around England, where bees have moved into walls and ruins and coexist safely with people.
DIFFERENCES between DOMESTIC and farmers hive
Over view
You will notice the hive body size is the same with theECO-BEEHIVE and the Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE , but the farmers version has longer legs
However
The farmers version is not intended for honey so there are only holes down the front as inspection holes.
Legs
The legs are mounted in the same way however they are longer allowing the hive to stand higher, thus allowing longer grass in front and around the hive
delivery
The price is lower and this can be done as the hive is not externally finished off as well as the domestic hives and with the economics of scale with 10 units at a time.
I can come to site and do some training as well as a site inspection for hive location.
FAQs
How long before I get bees? Two weeks to to years give or take. Once you have one hive filled they will then cascade over into the empty hives relatively quickly over a number of years, as long a rigorous routine of inspecting and baiting is followed.
What is the difference between a NORMAL beehive like a WBC and a ECO-BEEHIVE?
Normal beehives are for making honey, and have to be serviced by a beekeeper every 11 days in summer.
GARDENERS BEEHIVE if for pollination primarily.
If you have any questions please just call and I will be more than happy to chat on the phone, skyp, zoom, face time, meetings, watsapp and so on.
WHY?
Additional Information
Gardeners Beehive for every one.
There are some fundamental differences between what I would call the ECO-BEEHIVE hive and the Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE hive.
*The Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE hive is £200.00 each but sold 10 at a time. I will deliver free if the farm is within an hour from Stansted. Further than this will incur a delivery charge.
*The Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE hive has longer more sturdy legs, so the hive stands higher. The reason for this is to allow longer grass in front of the hive.
*The Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE hive is not finished off as refinally as the domestic version.
*The Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE beehive is not only available to farmers but any one who would like to buy in balk.
Learn More
The picture above shows a very basic idea of where to place hives in relation to poly tunnels or orchids.
the arrow points North. and the hives are 10 to 100 metres from the poly tunnels or orchid but a minimum of 100 metres from each other. Ideally about 200 metres as a minimum distance from each other.
The hive entrances will face the morning sun or south.
As the Farmers ECO-BEEHIVE is a tree stump it ideally should be places with trees or in or along a hedge line with summer shade and winter sun, but the latter is not critical.
Site location
Hive location to target
Bee hives should be west north and east of the target.
about 50 metres from the target
About 100 to 200 metres apart
East South or West facing
You can face then directly at the poly tunnels but it would be better to point them at the ends of the tunnels or the mass of the orchid.
Note:
Site demographics will be affect bees flight path , things like buildings and trees. More often than not bees will not fly over things but rather around them.
Maintenance and servicing
Once the hive is set up it will have to have the lure sprayed on once a week from mid April though to August or until bees move in.
There after there is no need for any maintenance.
However
The hive must remain vertical and not tilt over.
if it is knocked over by badgers it can be secured down in any number of ways or with the use of my badger kit to secure them down to the ground.
The grass in front of the hive must also be kept timed.
before they move in it must be trimmed low as possible but after they are in it can be left a little longer but the entrance must never be allowed to become obstructed.
Colony condition can be monitored as well as inspected. This should be only be done by a trained professional or a trained competent person, using the correct equipment, and systems.
Gardeners Beehive for the USA market
Any one in the USA can now have a GARDENERS BEEHIVE!!
In the USA all hives have to be such that they can be inspected. Not all states in the union require this however it is quite frowned on by some sectors of the HONEY farming community. the GARDENERS BEEHIVE is not a honey production hive.
SO what I have done is made the hive with top bars that can be removed out the side.
this allows a bee inspector to inspect the brood area of the hive.
more information will be available soon.
