- Joined
- Mar 30, 2011
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- Location
- Glanaman,Carmarthenshire,Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Too many - but not nearly enough
Thought I'd phrase it that way as not to offend any of our non indigenous residents (although I'm sure the usual snide comments will start shortly. )
Had a phonecall this morning from an acqaintance and local landowner - he's in the process of applying for Glastir Advanced element (For those who don't know it's a sustainable land management scheme for Wales - probably some kind of equivalent in the rest of the United Kingdom.) status.
Application forms for all these land stewardship schemes have always asked whether you have beehives on the land (a statistics collecting exercise more than anything) But the new forms for the Advanced scheme published a few days ago actually states that if you have an apiary on your land you will be given priority in the selection process
Anyway, the outcome was Dai was wondering whether I would consider keeping some bees on his land - after a bit of coaxing I said that I would try and find a suitable site within his 100 or so acres of land adjoining the Black Mountain - after a lot of coaxing I agreed and have provisionally selected a spot which has a navigable rough track leading up to it, the nearest serious (a good few hundred, maybe a thousand or so acres) heather being err, about five feet from the apiary
So to all beeks in Wales near Glastir eligible land be aware! maybe the time has come again when landowners will be asking for beekeepers rather than us always having to do the begging!
Had a phonecall this morning from an acqaintance and local landowner - he's in the process of applying for Glastir Advanced element (For those who don't know it's a sustainable land management scheme for Wales - probably some kind of equivalent in the rest of the United Kingdom.) status.
Application forms for all these land stewardship schemes have always asked whether you have beehives on the land (a statistics collecting exercise more than anything) But the new forms for the Advanced scheme published a few days ago actually states that if you have an apiary on your land you will be given priority in the selection process
Anyway, the outcome was Dai was wondering whether I would consider keeping some bees on his land - after a bit of coaxing I said that I would try and find a suitable site within his 100 or so acres of land adjoining the Black Mountain - after a lot of coaxing I agreed and have provisionally selected a spot which has a navigable rough track leading up to it, the nearest serious (a good few hundred, maybe a thousand or so acres) heather being err, about five feet from the apiary
So to all beeks in Wales near Glastir eligible land be aware! maybe the time has come again when landowners will be asking for beekeepers rather than us always having to do the begging!