tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112308242012-01-07T01:56:37.275ZThis page contains links to international news items featuring The Hive Honey Shop, as well as news and updates on courses, features and promotionsThe Hive Honey Shopnoreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11230824.post-29009564708725850302012-01-04T18:12:00.007Z2012-01-07T01:56:37.282Z

Just in! Exciting News! We can now confirm that James our Master Beekeeper will be holding an evening 'Sweet Delight' Honey Talk/Demonstration at Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly, London on Wednesday May 9th at 6:30.Tickets £25. Reservations telephone: 0845 602 5694.James was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to further his research into beekeeping & bee diseases. As part of his commitment to QEST

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Seasons Greetings! Only a few more days to go before Christmas. There is still time to pop into The Hive Honey Shop and pick up some truly unique gifts. Our edible Honeycomb is flying out the door! We have 5 different types of English Honey Comb on offer. Try:1 English Wildflower Honeycomb packed in a neat white plastic tub, 226g!2 NZ Wildflower Honeycomb - Large Square Section packed in a wooden

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The Hive Honey Shop were shortlisted to receive an award by the prestigious London Magazine. The awards venue was held on November 29th at the beautiful and atmospheric London Burlington Arcade London W1 with canapes & Champagne flowing. The Hive Honey Shop were shortlisted for a possible award- 'best food shop'. Well we did not win that and we felt a bit disappointed and deflated. There was

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This was an interesting article we found relating to honey being ultra fine filtered to remove pollen. We at The Hive Honey Shop are against this practice. We believe that not only does it rob the natural honey of so much of its nutritional value, but renders it useless for those wishing to help with their hayfever. Now we learn others do this to mask where the honey originates from. Read on:

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The Hive Honey Shop were asked to take part in an in depth radio interview about City Beekeeping. Andrea Rangercroft, the interviewer popped by the shop and asked James our expert beekeeper, 'what does it take to look after bees in a city environment'. Andrea was particularly interested in the shop, how we make our honey products and the long history of beekeeping in James's family.Andrea says:

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The Hive Honey Shop has been supplying wild honeycomb to the prop/set designers for the new Ridley Scott Alien prequel film. What we understand is that silicone moulds were made using the empty honeycomb pieces we supplied. The complex hexagon cells will be playing an important part in the film.Nice to know we helped and look forward to seeing how our honeycomb will look on the big screen! We

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The Hive Honey Shop has a long standing record of supporting the local community with free children 'Bee Talks'. They take time out of their busy day and set aside the time to provide charity work to improve better understanding of why honeybees are so important to our planet and why we need to look after them well.Yesterday 30 children from The White House Preparatory School were treated to one

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2011 WANDSWORTH GREEN BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS!!The Hive Honey Shop have WON the 2011 Green Business Awards for 'Best Individual Green Champion'! Robert of The Hive said; "It was a wonderful surprise to be acknowledged in this way after 20 years of our dedicated environmental business ethos and commitment to bettering waste management and the environment. It was great to be accredited by the panel

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The Hive Honey Shop have been selected as finalist in this years Green Business Awards!! We have been chosen for our commitment to reducing personal and business waste and reducing our carbon footprint.We are commitment to educating and encouraging our staff and customers about the need to recycle, walk or bike whenever possible, and consume less. We feel others need to help take part to make a

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They are here!! First day of our Annual Apple Fest at The Hive Honey Shop started today. We have 15 different varieties for sale today and will continue to update the selection as the apples ripen on the trees. We have 80 varieties in total! These are apples NEVER sold on the market so hurry and take advantage of tasting a bit of History! Good news!! We have decided to price them at a GIVE AWAY

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Yep our orchard of rare apple trees (80 different varieties) are now ready for picking. This year our trees are yielding very early. We have been around hand picking only the ripest and best varieties, bringing them back to the shop for sale. So be quick and take advantage of truly fresh British apples. Support your local grower- and know that you are helping the environment by supporting those

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We had been worried about you and the shop, and wondering how you were. I have just read your 'news' page on the website and feel shocked to read how close you were to some of the worst of the unleashing of such hatred and violence on the streets. Our thoughts are with you and those in your neighbourhood. May peace return very soon. Helen

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Thank you all for the kind emails of support after hearing about the awful looting and destruction to our local area. The Hive Honey Shop is located in the heart of Clapham Junction London. All the staff were worried about the safety of our shop beehive (the live honeybees at the shop) and whether there would be a shop to return to. We are grateful to the local police force in Wandsworth for

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Residents in Wandsworth SW11 were shocked and suprised when walking out of their flat and looking up to see 50,000 buzzing bees just inches above their heads! Time to call The Hive Honey Shop!!For the past 25 years James and his group at The Hive Honey Shop have been rescuing bees without harm and relocating them to the peaceful countryside where they can live out their lives safe from injury."

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Wow what a wonderful turn out for the last of our Beginners Beekeeping Courses 2011. It was fully booked and the weather was fantastic! The Sunday practical hands on beekeeping day was perfect, sunny and warm! The open air BBQ, sitting in the orchard of Bee Heaven Farm was ideal.James our veteran beekeeping course instructor said," The students were wonderful, a real delightful mix from all walks

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Emily Knight DJ for OnFM radio invited James, head beekeeper for The Hive Honey Shop, to their radio studio at 1 Lyric Square in Hammersmith, to talk about The Hive, how we got started, what it's like keeping bees in London and the kind of products we make. Emily was very interested in finding out about how local honey works to combat hayfever. Emily is a long standing customer of the Hive Honey

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With the recent high pollen counts our local honey, 'HayfeGUARD' has been flying off the shelves. Thank you to all the clients who have filled out our hayfever trial papers. The collected data will be very useful to all in recording the results with raw local honey and hayfever. All the results will be listed on the HayfeGUARD website www.hayfeguard.co.ukHave a look at the site today. It has the

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Honeybees for Sale / Nuclei for SaleNuclei:a small bee family (beekeepers call them a “Nuc”)Supplied on 5 National Frames covered with beesContains:*1 x Laying Buckfast Queen* Healthy Brood in all stages of development* Honey and pollenWe are taking orders now for nucleus colonies ready from end May through to the end of June 2011.0rders are supplied on a first come first served basis. We

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Ever wondered what it would be like to keep your own honeybees? Want to help the dwindling bee populations in the UK? Well why not book a place on The Hive Honey Shop Weekend Beekeeping Course! This is the original hands on course everyone is talking about. Its not just a boring technical talk about bees- NO, its a fast paced condensed 2 day course covering a vast area of what's involved to

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The Hive Honey Shop had a surprise visit from the FERA (The Food and Environment Research Agency) Government Bee Inspector on Tuesday the 12th. Brian McCallum acting seasonal bee inspector met James at Bee Heaven Farm to thoroughly inspect our hives for any signs of disease. Brian said, ‘ If we we could hand out gold stars you would get one. You have really raised the bar!’ Defra is the UK

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As family based UK beekeepers, after 20 years of making HayfeGUARD, local honey, pollen & royal jelly, we decided to make it available to farm shops, deli's, health food shops, pharmacy's up and down the country. We wanted to make contact to get the message out there that we produce local British honey. We decided to give the Natural & Organic Show at Olympia a try this year and took out a trade

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Don't forget- watch BBC Great British Food Revival Tonight 8pm to see The Hive Honey Shop and all about the present state of bees and beekeeping in the UK.

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28 Mar 2011, at 15:38, Vicki wroteHello, I was wondering whether Hayfeguard being unpasteurized is safe to take in pregnancy? Thank you VickiHi VickiGreat question! Funny we are getting loads of pregnant women emailing us about this. Guess hayfever season has started and they are looking at drug free ways to help!First let me explain, honey is pasteurised by large honey companies in order to stop

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The Hive Honey Shop will be in full swing at the Natural & Organic Food Show, Olympia, London April 3-4. It's the largest Organic food show in the UK. We are there to show off HayfeGUARD to the health food industry. We have been inundated with requests to supply chemist, health shops, GP practices and others, so we decided to pull the stops out and shout about it.We have a fantastic stand space

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Ainsley Harriott celebrity chef spent the day filming us at The Hive Honey Shop. He asked us to take part in his up coming foodie program all about the need to keep alive the artisan food trades of Great Briton. We discussed what makes a great honey, a few trade secrets shared and the plight facing honeybees and their future.Ainsley, who lives locally, was very interested in our HayfeGUARD raw

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A big Thank You to all our loyal established customers and all the new ones we have met throughout 2010! We are grateful to you all for supporting our tiny shop and giving us the opportunity to bring our fresh local honey to so many. We look forward to see you all in 2011!!!~From all of us at The Hive Honey Shop & our Bees, may we wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas & RELAXING & Joyous New

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Christmas Market Chalets will be in full force at the Duke of York Square which is taking place from 6th – 12th December.The Hive Honey Shop have been invited by QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) to take part in a special one off event. The Hive Honey Shop was honoured by a Scholarship Award from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the Royal Warrant Holders for our work with Bees and

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Wednesday December 8th, 4pm to 6pmCome join us at The Hive Honey Shop as the entire street of Northcote Road London SW11 (our shop road) celebrates the annual turning on of the street Christmas lights. It's a special evening event that kicks off from 4pm-6pm with many festive events such as:Santa's GrottoCarol Singing from the Northcote ChoirSpare Ribs & Minced PiesMulled Wine and Winters PimmsA

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Christmas is fast approaching. Wow it really creeps up on you! It seems like only yesterday I was opening the hives and taking off honey in the blazing heat.Mark our window designer and man of many talents has just completed the shop Christmas window for this year. It looks fantastic! We have a a full sized gold leafed WBC beehive with angel wings as the centre piece. The shop is fully stocked

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Ainsley Harriott, TV Celebrity Chef, was in full form entertaining passers-by outside the Hive Honey Shop today. Outline Productions contacted The Hive Honey Shop asking if they could film an interview with us for their upcoming TV series 'The Great British Food Revival'.Outline Productions are making a new ten part food series for BBC2 called, ‘The Great British Food Revival’. Each episode will

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Rosh HaShanah is the celebration of the Jewish New Year from the evening of September 8th to September 10th 2010. As part of this festival apples are dipped in pure honey to symbolize a sweet year. After the apple is dipped in the honey a proper blessing to god for his compassion and request that he renew another sweet year.Many Rabbis are ordering their honeys from The Hive Honey Shop for this

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Do you love honeybees enough to get a permanent tattoo of one? Well that's just what one of our customers did! After hearing about our 5 foot wall of live honeybees this bee enthusiast made his way to The Hive Honey Shop in search of his little friends.After enjoying our observation hive he began asking questions about how to take up beekeeping. We told him about our beekeeping courses and showed

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In this age of bee and insect doom & gloom I am happy to report a bit of good news!My biggest surprise this year occurred recently when I was taking breakfast in my tiny back suburban garden and to my surprise I saw a lovely red admiral butterfly. A few moments later I saw a completely different butterfly floating among my potted plants. Then ten minutes later my heart leaped, yet another

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‘Regents Street Ramblas’ which is part of this years London Festival of Architecture – the initiative is being organised by Antonia Faust who works at the Royal Institute of British Architects. This project is a collaboration between Oasis, Hawkins Brown, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith and The Hive Honey Shop.David Bickle, Director of Hawkins Brown has been selected as one of 7 architects to

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Have a read of the feature article published today all about The Hive Honey Shop and our quest to help save honeybees! The article is written by Jack Watkins who met James, head beekeeper at The Hive Honey Shop. They had a delightful chat about all things to do with bees and honey. Jack left with a new found interest in bees and we would not be surprised if he too took up beekeeping!

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Despite the weather all those who attended the Zoo for the Special Honey Bee Day went away Buzzing with information and honey bee goodies! Bernie the Bee, The Hive Honey Shop's Bee Mascot was on hand spreading the cheer. The Hive Honey Shop's beekeeping team were in one lodge with our live observation hive, loads of beekeeping equipment and beehives to demonstrate the importance of bees and

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The Hive Honey Shop has been invited to join the staff at The Battersea Park Children's Zoo for a special Honey Bee Day event on Saturday 29th of May! The Hive will be there in force to promote the welfare of honeybees and explain why they are disappearing. There will be LIVE Bee Demos- see bees at work behind a safe glass observation beehive. Meet real beekeepers, ask them your questions. Try on

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Nuclei: A small bee family (beekeepers call them a “Nuc”) Supplied on 5 National Frames covered with bees in a travel box. Contains:*1 x Laying Buckfast Queen * Brood in all stages of development * Honey and pollen We are taking orders now for nucleus colonies ready from early May through to the end of June 2010. Orders are supplied on a first come first served basis. We strongly recommend you

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What happens to honeybees in the winter? We are asked this so many times. Our customers are concerned honeybees will not survive the cold with snow covered hives. Firstly bees no not hibernate, they stay awake throughout the winter months and venture out of their hives on warmer days. In fact snow and low temperatures are good for honeybees. They will huddle together to stay warm and are

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The long awaited Bernie the Bee, official mascot for The Hive Honey Shop has arrived! Three years in the making we were all looking forward to seeing 6 foot tall Bernie up close and being introduced. Bernie will travel with us to shows, conventions and lectures around the country. Bernie is currently on show for a limited time in the main window of The Hive Honey Shop. Look out for Bernie at our

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In 1995 James, head beekeeper for The Hive Honey Shop was awarded a QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) Scholarship for Beekeeping & Bee Disease by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the Royal Warrant Holders Association of Great Britain. James was invited to Clarence House to meet Her Majesty and took his family observation hive with him. It was the first time a hive

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On Friday we were called out to rescue bees that were found flying into the gap under the top floor window of a house in London SE22. After careful inspection of the loft area we located a very large bumblebee nest hiding under the loft insulation sheets. They had been there for some time and were using the insulation felt as their nesting material. The home owner is having that area refurbished.

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The Hive had a great day out meeting the public and spreading the word of Beekeeping! We had our 4th generation beekeepers on hand chatting to the children about the benefits that bees do for our planet. They helped the children roll their own free beeswax candles that were very well received in deed. Thank you to Covent Garden for inviting us.

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The Hive Honey Shop will be interviewed live on BBC London Radio with Robert Elms. So tune in on Tuesday August 11th from 1:40-2:00pm. Robert Elms presents London's best magazine show with eclectic music & great guests.

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The Hive Honey Shop have been invited to Covent Garden to be featured as the local honey and bee expert who will talk about bee keeping, the benefits of using locally sourced honey, medicinal purposes and interesting facts on urban beekeeping. We will be in the Covent Garden Piazza on Thursday August 13th from 1-1:30pm. We are providing a FREE beeswax candle rolling session for children. So they

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Did you know that The Hive Honey Shop run a Bumblebee Rescue Service throughout the southwest! Its true. We have 20 years experience of carefully handling the difficult removal of bees from just about any area of a property. We have been inundated with calls to remove bumblebees from weird and wonderful places. So far this year alone has seen us carefully removing bees from compost bins, inner

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Now in the making Urban Wandsworth Honey & Fresh Raw Pollen! Fingers crossed that the weather forecasters predictions for a long hot summer come true. If this is the case we should be able to provide an abundance of London honey. Pictured above is just one of our many city locations.

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As the pollen count rises, try honey as a natural weapon against hayfever. This is what the Telegraph said in a feature on how using local unpasteurised honey can help with hayfever.Have a read: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/5135837/Honey-the-sweetest-cure-for-hayfever.html They listed The Hive Honey Shop's HayfeGUARD, local honey and pollen as one of the Top Five Healing Honeys. Launched

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It was a busy and successful apple picking day on the farm in preparation for juicing. Friends and family all joined in to lend a hand or hands! All in all we hand picked over three tons of apples! The really amazing thing is, the orchard has over 200 trees with 76 different varieties.When we press the apples, on average there are more than 55 different varieties of apples in each bottle of our

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           The beekeeping talk at Waterstones, Clapham was a true success. 75 tickets were sold for this event and there was only standing room left for those arriving later. The evening lecture covered many of the problems facing bees and beekeeping at present throughout the world today.James, The Hive Honey Shops head beekeeper, was asked by Waterstones Books SW11 to speak at this years

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         I was visiting beekeepers on the Isle of Wight. While in Cowes I noticed a fantastic 3D skep beehive wall plaque. It is quite large and in perfect condition. I went inside the shop, now selling yacht and nautical goods. The staff had no idea why it was there or the history behind the building.So my question is. Does anyone recognise it? Can anyone tell me more about it. There is a free

The Hive Honey Shopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11230824.post-49042327189188939012008-08-29T22:27:00.009+01:002008-08-29T23:47:55.439+01:00

Welcome to the 2008 SW11 Literary Festival organised by Waterstone's Books & the Clapham Junction Town Centre Partnership. The Hive Honey Shop has been invited to take part in this prestigious annual literary event.This festival gives book lovers the opportunity to meet some of their favourite writers and to discover new ones, to attend workshops to sharpen their writing talent or to try their

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Henrietta Green, British local & regional food expert has won several awards including a Guild of Food Writers Award for the greatest contribution to British food among others.In her search for the BEST- whether a place to buy, eat or learn, Henrietta has criss-crossed Britain several times in her quest. The results were first published in her award-winning British Food Finds in 1987, during 1993

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        The Hive Honey Shop was asked to take part in a live radio interview at the shop on August 11th. Stevan Bennett from BBC Radio London was the interviewer and asked James, our head Beekeeper and co-owner to step up to the mic and describe what its like being a professional beekeeper.The interview lasted 30 mins and guest speakers included Simon Kilks, a spokesperson and member of the

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BBCs Newsnight contacted The Hive as they are currently working on a film involving the decline of the honeybee in the UK and around the world, and the level of research and funding that is going towards it.The crew arrived and filmed at the shop asking questions about how we collect our honey and how the decline in bee populations will impact on pollination, global finance and the honey industry

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Bloomberg TV news today interviewed our head beekeeper about the plight of the honey bee in England. CCD ( colony collapse disorder) is a hot issue in the press at the moment and journalists want to find out more and what the present situation is.Bloomberg TV televise financial news both in the US and the UK. The obvious impact on the US financial market,  due to the decline of honey bees and

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Do you suffer from hay fever and live near Wimbledon? Then you are saved! ABC Pharmacy in ELYS Department Store, Wimbledon now stock our natural hay fever remedy, 'HayfeGUARD'. They have branches throughout the SW of London. To find your nearest stockist have a look at their website: see  www.abcpharmacy.co.uk                                 Email: abcpharmacy.ely@npanet.co.ukFor more information

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We are very proud to announce our new practical beekeeping blog called "Beekeeping with The Hive". This will be a diary of our daily beekeeping activities full of pictures and tips which we hope you will find useful and interesting.See Beekeeping with The Hive here

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BBC Olive Magazine -March 2008 IssueExpert Advise *Food Heroes*WHY YOU SHOULD BUY ....The Hive's HoneyWhen it comes to top quality honey, British bees do it best. words by David McCandless

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FHM Magazine has enlisted the help of The Hive Honey Shop to help promote their new March cover girl. The competition, known as 'Finding the 2005 High Street Honey', gave way to FHM contacting The Hive, asking them to bottle special limited edition honey featuring a photo of Natalie, the winner, in her bra. 'It has never been done before' said the managing director, but The Hive agreed and now

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Channel 4: 23rd May 2003James and Hugh the presenter discuss how the Edwardians kept honeybees and how they used the by-products they harvested from their bees. Shot on location at James's orchard/apiary, 'Bee Heaven Farm' in Surrey surrounded by 180 rare apple trees and 40 beehives on site. Don't miss it!Visit the website at Channel 4: The Edwardian Country House

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from Country Homes & Interiors May 2002As May arrives, bees that have been still since the autumn prepare for the season ahead, stirred by the new spring blossoms and pollens that fill the air with their heady, seductive perfumesUrban settings such as Clapham, in south-east London, seem an unlikely place to find bees busily working away, gathering nectar from the smart window boxes and tidy

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by Tim Teeman from The Times, London 6 Apr 2002The import ban has emptied shelves - so buy BritishMy friend was smiling in a come-off-it kind of way, but the shop assistant was serious. "There's a honey shortage," he said, shrugging at the empty shelf where jars once stood. "I don't know when it will be back."Although "honey shortage" conjures up images of bees laying down tools, the situation is

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From BBC News OnlineCity honey producers say their product is better than country honey.Read more...

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