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What can you do for bees?

There are many ways you can help bees, here’s a few ideas to get you started:

Create habitat – encourage flowering shrubs and plants in your garden, cottage herbs are great for borders. You can even make your lawn a bee banquet – providing you’re not obsessed about a perfectly green lawn you can raise the level of your mower. Quite often this is enough to start getting little flourishes of yellow and pink emerging as the birdsfoot trefoil and red clover get the opportunity to flower. If after a few weeks your lawn is still disappointingly green, source some good quality seeds – we use the lovely people at Emorsgate.

Support your local honey bees: buy buying local honey you can keep this little cottage industry alive and give the bees purpose. You could even consider trying it yourself, though it is essential to get good advice. If you live here on the Island there is the excellent Isle of Wight Beekeepers Association. Join your local group and they will help you find equipment and provide all of the advice you need to raise happy and healthy bees, with lovely honey.

Spread the Bee Buzz. Tell people about the importance of bee conservation, give someone some flower seeds, follow us on Twitter or become a fan on facebook. Link to us from your website, phone your granny – whatever you can do to help spread the buzz.

Click here for the Gift to Nature Bee Tips Leaflet.

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