We had a lovely day with the wonderful Galliford Try group, who came back to help us cob the Hub. The team had fun designing the bottle windows and implementing

By the start of June, the bees are very active and the numbers of bees in each hive will peak by the end of the month at up to 60,000

In recent years, the concept of rewilding has gained popularity as a way to restore ecosystems to their natural state. Rewilding involves returning land to a more natural state, allowing

May marks the start of the swarming season for honeybees. Swarming is the natural process by which honeybee colonies propagate and move beyond an existing colony location. The exact mechanisms

Our rainwater harvesting project was organised by garden volunteer, Lisa Dittmar, partnering with Ben McCallan from ZERO Carbon Guildford and Surrey County Council’s “Green Social Prescribing Programme”.  “The day involved

April is the start of the beekeeping season and when the temperature gets above 15 degrees it’s time to do the first inspections. I should already know if the colony

News from the Orchard Last year we had a bumper crop of apples on most of the trees, much to everyone’s delight. There are some excellent flavours amongst the different

It still feels like we’re in the middle of winter but inside the bee hives things are beginning to gear up for the Spring. With the lengthening days the Queen

Welcoming Dragonflies and Newts to our Wildlife Ponds Spring has arrived and with it the next wildlife pond session at the garden – our aim is to finish the edges

This month’s big job Sunday was to pollard the willow at the garden.  Willow and other fast growing trees like hazel, can be coppiced to produce wands that can be