Surplus honey bees in North Essex

I have a surplus of bees and am passing them on in the way I have done for a number of years. I sell the bees not the equipment . Prices start at £30 for 5 frame nuke. All bees with laying queen. people bring me their hive and frames, I transfer the bees to their hive and keep the appropiate number of frames in exchange.
Contact me on chris@ecodiy.org if you are interested.

Self sown Poppies

Self-sown poppies between our vegetable beds, we will harvest the heads for the seeds when they dry (great in our home baked bread)

Dealing with aphids without chemicals

 Its worth looking at the pictures of these aphid eaters as some of them look surprisingly like slugs but are 'goodies'

http://ventnorpermaculture.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/beneficial-insects/