Looking at the personalities behind London’s small businesses Zoe Palmer and Aisha Forbes founded The Golden Company, a social enterprise based in Hackney that empowers inner city young people with business and life skills through beekeeping. How did The Golden Company come about? “I was …
‘A low budget horror movie’ is how photo snapper @PopeRamone describes this scence on Wardour Street yesterday. Hundreds of urban bees fixated on a lamp post before moving on to Portland Place, where a bee keeper took control of the rogue apians. Michael Caine was …
An ecological centre in Lambeth has hit upon a novel idea for bee-housing: they’ve built a scale model of the Trellick tower for their resident bees to pollinate. The 1.6m-tall, 31-storey tower, built from timber blocks, has holes bored into the length of it, which …
Honeydrippin’ photography by Chris Osburn Back in July, half a million honey bees checked in at the Lancaster London, making it the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof. Yesterday, the hotel’s “Bee Team” invited us round to have a taste of their …
Image by Gaz-zee-boh from the Londonist Flickr pool London is buzzing today with the sound of urban beekeeping. The Times has been to St Pancras to visit Kate Solomon, who’s keeping 60,000 bees on her rooftop; the busy little blighters have made 12 jars of …
Paul E Nate dreamed of being Queen Your humble garden honeybee has rivalled even the polar bear in recent years as the most-fretted-about species, the unexplained decline of bee populations prompting doom-laden invectives about our relationship with nature. Kew Gardens today announced a new campaign …
The humble bumble been hasn’t been having a good time of it lately. This year saw the worst honey crop on record and the poor blighters are dropping dead and no-one really knows why. Soon there won’t be any left to fight terrorists or investigate …
As of tomorrow lunchtime – an wonderfully apt time to start – London’s first slow food market will be installed outside the Royal Festival Hall and thus commences the Festival of Food long weekend on the South Bank. As well as opportunities to buy fresh, …
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