This year, Brockhole has 3 new honey bee hives and a set of bees that have moved into an human-engineered bee log. This contributes to our effort of increasing pollinators on site to assist in the pollination of the many beautiful plant species and trees we have here.
The hives can be seen from our new Bee shelter (image). The hives themselves are William Broughton Carr (WBC) hives, and are the iconic, often white hives used since the 1800’s. The third hive is behind a door and is an observation hive to see the bees in operation. We use the observation hives with school groups and will be showing some of the public in our summer activities.
Beekeeper Ben checking the bees at Brockhole.
