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Are Honey Bees Endangered?

Did you know that there are 20,000 different species of bees? Of those, 4,000 are pollinators and only eight are on the endangered list. You might ...

The true cost of organic

At Bee Potion we pride ourselves on our ethics and as a Community Interest Company, our values, our community and our planet's ecology come before ...

Survival of the fittest: why do honey bees swarm?

Last week we had some great news! We discovered that our tree hive in our woodland apiary has bees in it once more. You can see a video of Katharin...

Bee Hotels and Swimming Pools: Our 6 top tips for supporting bees in your garden

At Bee Potion, sustainable or natural beekeeping, as it is often called, is central to our ethos and allows us to create a more symbiotic relations...

A Spring Guide To Planting For Bees

As the days begin to grow longer and the warming sun once again shines across the green hills, we are able to exhale a small sign of relief. Awaken...

WOW

This Winter I have been WOWED BY THE WOW sea swimmers of Hastings and other embedded swimming clans along our local town shores. Sea swimming du...

Winter Wellness

Taking time for ourselves can be significantly beneficial to our wellbeing during these uncertain times, even if it's the smallest of moments. I ha...

Bee Magic - A year of reflection.

Life this year has been so fleeting, abstract, isolating. This has also prompted a much needed time of reflection too. Watching the bees, rather th...

GREEN FRIDAY. THE ANTI BLACK FRIDAY MOVEMENT.

Green Friday is an anti-Black Friday movement that promotes more mindful gift shopping that is less harmful to the environment. It is a movement...

8 all-natural ways to kick your immune system into fight mode this flu season.

As we descend into these chilling months of the winter, you may be nervously awaiting the dreaded cold and flu season. I have been working with bee...

HONEYLANDS AND BEE FEVER

Nestled within the old, quirky lanes of Hastings Old Town, sits our local independent cinema; the ELECTRIC PALACE. It's one of my favourite places...

The moon the bees and the oh so many flowers

A honey bee visits 2000 flowers a day over 14 days and it takes 12 bees their whole life to make one teaspoon of honey! Bee amazed!