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Welcome to “Straight from the Hive” Edmondsham Honey
Based in Dorset the bees have been living here for well over 40 years, we have been lucky enough to be involved in the adoption of these great bees and hope to bring them back to there hay day levels!<\/p>\n
Our bee keeping interest began when we moved into the village and on a warm summers day in June, a swarm landed in our garden. Instantly we were intrigued watching them with fascination.\u00a0 We realised that they had come from our chimney, so we called our local bee keeper assotioation number and they sent a bee keeper\u00a0 out to collect them ,with out any bother or fuss however we pointed out the chimney bees he said if they were not causing a problem we should them bee. .. Scuse the pun*<\/p>\n
“They probably leave the first time we light the fire anyway..”<\/p>\n
They didn’t leave and this became a regular occurrence<\/span> every summer we would often get one or 2 swarms congregating in our garden. We would call the local bee association and they would arrange for a keeper to come and collect them! And untill the bee keeper would come out we would watch and observe them in there cluster till the bee keeper would come along in the evening and re-home them.<\/p>\n And then lock down happened….. We rushed off to where he said this “orchard” was..<\/p>\n The Orchard.. was not far from us, very overgrown and dotted around were old neglected hives, initially spotting 1 or 2 then realising there were more amongst the undergrowth. The bug was biting we wanted to get involved we registered and completed a buigners oline online bee course and registered with the East Dorset bee keepers assiation and got started!<\/p>\n In 2021 we got Bees.. lots of Bees<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bees-sat-on-shoulder.jpg” title_text=”bees sat on shoulder” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-43px||-46px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to our bee website, where we celebrate the amazing world of bees and their delicious and nutritious products. Our honey is straight from the hive, meaning it is raw and unprocessed, just as nature intended. We take great care in harvesting our honey to preserve its natural goodness, and we offer a range of honey varieties for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n But we are more than just honey! Our products also include beeswax candles, pollen, propolis, and other bee-derived items that offer a range of health benefits. Bees are truly remarkable creatures, and we strive to educate our customers on the many ways they contribute to our world and our well-being.<\/p>\n Our commitment to the bees goes beyond just the products we offer. We are dedicated to sustainable beekeeping practices and to promoting bee conservation efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to \"Straight from the Hive\" Edmondsham Honey \"They probably leave the first time we light the fire anyway..\"<\/p> They didn't leave and this became a regular thing.. Each summer we would often get one or 2 swarms congregating in our garden. We would call the local bee association and they would arrange for a keeper to come and collect them! And untill the bee keeper would come out we would watch and observe them in there cluster till the bee keeper would come along in the evening and re-home them.<\/p> And then lock down happened..... We rushed off to where he said this \"orchard\" was..<\/p> The Orchard.. was not far from us, very overgrown and dotted around were old beaten up hives, initially spotting 1 or 2 then realising there were more amongst the undergrowth. But that was it we were set we were going to get and do the bee thing, and eventually become bee keepers! <\/p> The bug was biting we wanted to get involved we registered for some random online bee course and got started! <\/p> In 2021 we got Bees.. lots of Bees<\/p> <\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightfromthehive.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Our interest in bees had peaked the previous year with enquires into buying a hive (but nothing serious)…
Now we are in full swing lockdown and the bees are back, we wondered if perhaps <\/span>we could house these ones!
But we needed to know what to do and apparently equipment, we’d heard that an elderly neighbour in the village used to keep bees so at a distance and masked we chatted over the fence!
He said there was an orchard nearby where he uses too keep bees and if any of the old hives were salvageable perhaps we could use one of them.<\/p>\n
We went from hive to hive but… they were in a state, although one appeared to still have the odd bee going in and out of it!
Unfortunately it had been sometime since they had been serviced and there was no chance of using any of the hives for the swarm in the garden.
We had to admit defeat rung through some bee keepers till we found one who would (at a distance!) take away the bees.
But that was it we were set we were going to get and do the bee thing, and eventually become bee keepers!<\/p>\n
\nThank you for visiting our website, and we hope you will join us in celebrating the wonderful world of bees and their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n
Based in Dorset the bees have been living here for well over 40 years, we have been lucky enough to be involved in the adoption of these great bees and hope to bring them back to there hay day levels!
Our bee keeping interest began when we moved into the village and on a warm summers day in June, a swarm landed in our garden. Instantly we were intrigued watching them scared but fascinated. We realised that they had come from our chimney, so a bee keeper was called he came over later that evening and removed them with out any bother or fuss However we pointed out the chimney bees he said if they were not causing a problem we should them bee. .. Scuse the pun*<\/p>
Our interest in bees had peaked the previous year with enquires into buying a hive (but nothing serious)...
Now we are in full swing lockdown and the bees are back, we wondered if pre-haps we could house these ones!
But we needed to know what to do and apparently equipment, we'd heard that an elderly neighbour in the village used to keep bees so at a distance and masked we chatted over the fence!
He said there was an orchard nearby where he uses too keep bees and if any of the old hives were salvageable perhaps we could use one of them.<\/p>
We went from hive to hive but... they were in a state, although one appeared to still have the odd bee going in and out of it!
Unfortunately it had been sometime since they had been serviced and there was no chance of using any of the hives for the swarm in the garden.
We had to admit defeat rung through some bee keepers till we found one who would (at a distance!) took away the bees.
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