Bee Project: The Potter Bees

Creating a BUZZ!

We are currently in the process of getting honey bees on Richmond Street Allotments. This is an exciting new project for our allotment site and is a significant commitment to improving our wildlife area.

The wildlife area is being re-newed / refreshed and the aim is for it to be a haven for bees and other local wildlife. Bees will love our allotment site as it is on a slope and from the top they will have a fantastic flight path, so they can buzz about Stoke with ease!

They have arrived!!! [August 2013]

'The Potter Bees' Project Dirt Group Page: http://projectdirt.com/group/the-potter-bees (take a look, join in and become a member!)

Letters of support from the North Staffordshire Beekeepers Association (NSBA)

• Letter 1 [PDF]
• Letter 2 [PDF]

 

Wildlife area (before being cleared for bees) [click pic to enlarge]

Bee flight path view 1 [click pic to enlarge]

Bee flight path view 2 [click pic to enlarge]

Below is a great map showing just how good Richmond Street Allotments and the local area is for bees.

• 1KM buffer map around Richmond Street Allotments [PDF]

Please review the materials here are find out more about bees!

Recent activity

Tree clearing on 6th October:

More pictures at Wildlife Area page

David Teasdale the General Secretary of the North Staffs Beekeeping Association (NSBKA) came to a meeting on site, to speak and answer questions on bees at 6pm on Thursday 20th September.

If you have a question but did not make the meeting, email it to benscoble@ntlworld.com

Some links for information and advice about bees

Stoke-on-Trent Council Agreement and Conditions for Keeping Honey Bees on Council Owned Allotment Siyes [pdf]

The Beekeepers Association

• http://www.bbka.org.uk/learn/
• http://www.bbka.org.uk/local/northstaffordshire/beginners/

Friends of the Earth

• http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/the_bee_cause_35033.html

allotment.org.uk

• http://www.allotment.org.uk/grow-your-own/allotments/encouraging-bees

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

• http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=648
• http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Sustainable-gardening/pdfs/RHS_Pollinators_PlantList_v1
• http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Sustainable-gardening/pdfs/20120702_PerfectForPollinators-WildflowerList_V1