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Capital Bee

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Capital Bee

Welcome to the wonderful world of city bees and honey.

Based in South London and Central London we make our own delicious honey to sell. 2012 Brockley and Greenwich honey will be available at Broca Market, Brockley, The Frog on the Green Deli in Nunhead, Cafe Crema in New Cross, and El's Kitchen in Ladywell. 2011 honey is sold out.

2010 was a great year for flavour which led to Time Out recently listing Capital Bee's honey amongst the top six best London Honeys.

Apart from sites in Brockley, Greenwich Royal Park and Grove Park we have some new sites this year. Capital Bee maintains hives and hive-sits for companies, charities and individuals, Capital Bee has helped St Ermin's Hotel in St James Park set up a new apiary on its roof. There is also a new apiary up and running for Greenwich University as part of their sustainability plans. This site is of great historical interest as it is by the old mausoleum where some of Nelson's great admirals are buried, such as Admiral Hardy.To see this apiary site and others check out this fab video by Superimpose mag of the bees www.vimeo.com/25756911 or their site at www.superimposemag.com/2011/06/capital-bee/.

We are also pleased to announce a new site this year above the Melvita store in St Martin's Courtyard, Covent Garden. The honey will be available direct from Melvita's shop this summer.

For those of you who would like to try your hand at producing your own honey, we also sell and deliver bees direct to your door if you are looking fo a nucleus colony. We are now taking orders for 2012 colonies.

If you find the prospect of bee-keeping a bit daunting we can also provide our know-how with talks and demonstrations about bee-keeping.

For the latest news about the hives, honey in season and its flavour, as well as bees in general go to the Bee News page.

Sustain's "Capital Bee" programme is also arranging bee-keeping courses across London in 2011 and Green Shoots on Besson Street in New Cross will be running courses in 2011. The Calthorpe Centre on Grays Inn Road is also running courses this summer with Capital Bee.

If you've discovered a bee swarm, don't panic! We can collect and remove it for you if you are in the London area, and if it's in a reasonably accessible place, just contact us.

The poor old honey bee is becoming increasingly endangered at the moment, and needs as much support as it can get. To find out how, visit our conservation page. We were surprised to note that the Soil Association have identified many top selling household bug killers as containing neonicotinoids that are believed to be harmful to bees. To find out more check out the SA page.

If you are a pest control company in London we can sometimes arrange to collect swarms depending on the site and get them back on their feet by hiving them and sorting out any health and temperament issues.