1st Light Trading Organically Supporting Honey Bees!

1st light trading is focused on complete health and we believe health begins with our soil. We are from California, a leading producer of almonds, tomatoes, cotton, rice, feed crops, grapes, wine, and more. Crop industries are turning to organics as they find that commercial synthetics contribute to soil depletion, unhealthy plants and the devastating poisoning of our bees. 

One of our recent products was developed to save the bees,demonstrating our focus on organic solutions to alleviate the damage done by pesticides and other harmful fertilizers.

Have a look at their site here www.1stlighttrading.com

Don't forget they provide a raneg of products which support Honey Bees! and your garden environment.

HONEY BEE HIVE - Website resource

"Honey Bee Hive, incorporating the UK Local Honey Directory"

about bees, hives, honey, bee keeping equipment and swarm removal by a Wiltshire beekeeper

The site has lots of information on Honey Bees and similar topics including beekeeping techniques and equipment  as well as personal experiences where appropriate. Most of the info is in the Beekeeping Blog along with up-dates about what is happening in my his apiaries, so if you can not find anything from the main menu then it is worth having a quick look in the body of the blog.

AN interesting site with lots of Bee facts and useful advice.

HONEY BEE HIVE

Check out Bee Products at Bee Healthy Farms

"The goal of holistic medicine is to treat a person’s whole being, rather than a specific illness. Curing symptoms by taking care of underlying causes optimizes the body’s overall health.

Our Propolis diffuser and vaporizer protects the body with the power of apitherapy and aromatherapy. This all-natural, chemical-free device will sanitize any room, while basking it in a pleasant scent. The Propolis diffuser eliminates bacteria, viruses and air pollutants, significantly improving respiratory conditions and reducing allergies."

Read more at their honey bee website here Bee Healthy Farms and find out about some great bee products! 

Beekeeping in Ontario with Chris Inch

Visit Chris Inch's website about beekeeping and find out lots of interesting stuff for beginners and experts. It features a range of interesting videos of him at work and also more about Chris heading into his community to retrieve bee swarms. Find out about his adventures and learn about Bees as he tells his story.

Chris's great beekeeping website can be found here. Take a look and take part!

Creating good compost is a great way of growing more flowers and increasing bee numbers in your garden

We have been looking at how to increase levels of bees in our gardens and have decided that one of the best ways to do that is to grow great flowers with excellent compost. Now you can just stack up your waste in a bin in your garden but there are ways of making this matter compost more quickly and making sure you add a good combination and not curtain things is key to this. It's not rocket science but there are some great things you can do to increase the quailty of the compost and therefore the flowers you grow will be bigger, last longer and more Bees will come.

A great site to find out about this is www.acompostbin.com. It's easy to read and full of useful tips.

Rudys Bees Beekeepers

Visit Rudys Bees Website

"We are a beekeepers that are based in Wiltshire and have a great interest in linking farming, the environment and the honey bee together so that we can increase food production in the UK and EU.

This will mean a better yield in crops and fruits with lower inputs. Research has shown that having bees on the land can increase production up to 25% by increasing pollination.


We work with Farmers and environmental organizations to increase profitability and environmental stability with the lowest inputs possible. Call us to discuss your need and we will put a plan together for you as an individual farm or environmental group that will benefit you and the environment."

Visit Rudy's Bees Website here

A Honey Bee on a Rasberry Plant

A honey bee feeding on nectar from a raspberry plant. An image supplied by dohoneybeessting.com