As a business, adopting a beehive is a huge step towards being socially responsible. As a business you be thinking about the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the social and economic impact to the environment and how you can play a key part in looking after the planet we live on.
Enhance your Corporate Sustainability ambitions & values
Adopting a beehive will definitely show the business up in a positive light. It helps demonstrate how committed you are in helping the environment.
HONEY!! Yes, you will receive honey when the season is right for extraction (August – September)
Your hive will almost certainly create opportunities to promote the business, although beehive adoption is growing more popular, it is still very new and exciting to the world and your clients.
Enhance brand reputation
Having photos and videos of your hive is great for marketing and PR, customers will like what you are doing, you can either make your own material up or simply point them to our site.
Honeybees are crucial for pollination of plants and crops, without them your garden would look very different, they work very hard making the world look good.
Bees are required for biodiversity and environmental protection.
Cultivated plants require bees to pollinate them, not just honeybees, but all types of bees, sustainable farming provides jobs and food that goes on our plates. Our bees have a direct impact on crop yields locally.
A number of different species to co-exist in the world and bees contribute to a very complex interconnected ecosystem that allow that level of diversity.
The UK economy gets supported by pollination contracts from Bee farmers each year, it is believed to be in the region of £200-£400 million straight into the economy every year.
Bees don’t just make field crops grow well, but they also contribute to the growth of wildflowers and plants they we see in the hedgerows and on the side of the road.
1 x New wooden hive with a colony of bees installed into one of our local apiaries in North Manchester.
20 x 227g jars of our delicious pure local honey for each hive adopted.
Access to our wholesale prices should you wish to purchase additional jars or participate in our beekeeping experience sessions.
You will get featured on our social media sites and website.
Prices include VAT
If you are interested in wish to discuss in detail, please feel free to give me a call on 07568 574444. Or email us at walkerbeehoney@hotmail.com
Why Do Bees Make Honey?
Bees have been producing honey in the same way for over one hundred and fifty million years.
How much honey?
One hive can produce 60 lb (27 kg) or more in a good season, however an average hive would be around 25 lb (11 kg) surplus
How far do they fly?
Queen Bees
The queen bee is kept below the upper boxes (called ‘supers’) in the hive by a wire or plastic grid (called a ‘queen excluder’), which the queen is too large to fit through.
Health Benefits
Diabetes management
Studies have shown that honey is beneficial in treating and managing diabetes mellitus. It contains antioxidants that play a significant role in controlling diabetes mellitus. Honey can help lower the level of sugar (plasma glucose) in the blood of individuals with diabetes. Honey also reduces blood lipid and reactive protein content in most people and those living with hyperlipidaemia (excess lipids in the blood).
Promoting heart health
Antioxidants present in honey help improve heart health by reducing the risk of heart failure. They lower the risk of heart failure by reducing the ability of platelets in the blood to clot and preventing low–density lipoproteins (a protein that carries cholesterol in bloodstreams) from oxidizing.
Asthma and cold management
Folk-traditional doctors included honey in medicine to treat cough, fever, and asthma. Honey can help prevent and reduce asthma, common cough, and fever symptoms. Some studies show that honey treatment successfully manages asthma by preventing airway inflammation.
Wound healing
Honey is the oldest wound treatment and healing agent known to humankind. It activates an immune response that fights infection, stimulating white blood cells (which help fight infection and disease) to begin tissue repair. Honey is effective in the treatment of acute and mild wounds and surface and partial burns.
Source of antioxidants
Your body contains free radicals responsible for aging, impairing cell function, and causing heart and blood vessel disorders. Honey and other antioxidant-rich foods can protect you against such and other chronic conditions.
Dark honey usually contains more significant amounts of antioxidants compared to lighter honey. The quantity and quality of oxidizing agents in honey depend on the type of honey and the flower that provides the nectar. A study on healthy adults showed increased plasma–antioxidants in their bodies. Therefore, proving that antioxidants improve the immune defence system of the human body