{"id":3245,"date":"2021-11-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devthewave.wpengine.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:21:34","slug":"beekeeping-at-the-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewave.com\/beekeeping-at-the-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping at The Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our on-going work to improve the biodiversity in and around The Wave site, we\u2019ve recently established some&nbsp;new&nbsp;beehives&nbsp;with&nbsp;an exciting new business,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightsbeekeeping.co.uk.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knights&nbsp;Beekeeping<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightsbeekeeping.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">. <\/a>This is&nbsp;not only&nbsp;an active&nbsp;way to&nbsp;support the declining honeybee population,&nbsp;but&nbsp;a brilliant&nbsp;way to <strong>\u202ffoster lasting connections between&nbsp;our&nbsp;Wavemaker&nbsp;team, visitors, the local community, and the local landscape, with sustainability at&nbsp;the&nbsp;heart.<\/strong>&nbsp;Bees have been around for millions of years, pollinating plants and producing honey. And a healthy and resilient bee population is extremely important for&nbsp;a healthy&nbsp;ecosystem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more we caught up with Knights Beekeeping founder,&nbsp;Martin Knight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why are bees&nbsp;so&nbsp;important?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The bee population&nbsp;has been&nbsp;greatly diminished over the last decade, so we really need to look after them and&nbsp;support these essential&nbsp;pollinators.&nbsp;Sadly <strong>one third of the UK\u2019s bee&nbsp;population&nbsp;has now disappeared<\/strong>. It means that 24% of Europe\u2019s bees are now threatened with extinction, and 1 in 10 of Europe\u2019s overall wild bee species are facing this risk too. This is all due to the huge threats bees face everyday&nbsp;through&nbsp;habitat loss, climate change, toxic pesticides and disease, which all means not enough natural resources for them to feed off.&nbsp;So we\u2019ve really got to do our bit to support biodiversity, and beekeeping can&nbsp;help&nbsp;in a massive way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What&nbsp;attracted&nbsp;you to beekeeping&nbsp;in the first place?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I initially got&nbsp;into&nbsp;bees about 10 years ago because my daughter had&nbsp;severe&nbsp;hay fever and we&nbsp;tried so many things&nbsp;with no success.&nbsp;Then&nbsp;we&nbsp;found that eating&nbsp;local&nbsp;single-source honey&nbsp;(gathered from one hive)&nbsp;was&nbsp;really good for&nbsp;settling down her hay fever.&nbsp;We soon learned that <strong>the list of health benefits&nbsp;from&nbsp;organic honey&nbsp;was incredible<\/strong>. It\u2019s rich with antioxidants, helping to lower blood pressure, and studies show that it also helps reduce cholesterol&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;both contributing factors leading to heart attacks and strokes. And as we discovered with my daughter, local honey has been used for centuries to help treat hay fever. It really worked.&nbsp;And that got me passionate about bees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tell us about&nbsp;the business that you run now<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to work in design&nbsp;company,&nbsp;and I&nbsp;did&nbsp;a lot of communication for large corporates around the world about their sustainability programmes and what they do for the&nbsp;environment. I had&nbsp;started&nbsp;to&nbsp;keep bees, and I&nbsp;learned through that&nbsp;how&nbsp;beekeeping offered a very&nbsp;meaningful and tangible thing that companies&nbsp;could&nbsp;do for&nbsp;both&nbsp;employees&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;environment. I came up with the idea to offer beekeeping to businesses, setting up hives and providing on-going support&nbsp;to manage them.&nbsp;So much of the environmental focus for business has&nbsp;been&nbsp;into&nbsp;things like&nbsp;not printing an email,&nbsp;or&nbsp;saving energy,&nbsp;or planting trees&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;which are all&nbsp;of course really&nbsp;good&nbsp;things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;I realised that&nbsp;beekeeping&nbsp;can&nbsp;actually&nbsp;be&nbsp;a way people&nbsp;can&nbsp;get&nbsp;really&nbsp;involved and immersed and feel bit of ownership.&nbsp;So&nbsp;instead of taking&nbsp;from the planet,&nbsp;this was&nbsp;my way of&nbsp;giving something back.&nbsp;The practice of beekeeping is also amazing for our mental health&nbsp;because keeping bees requires us to be completely present in the moment. This helps us&nbsp;to be aware of our surroundings, find a sense of calm and trust ourselves&nbsp;with&nbsp;nature and the process. This can help reduce stress levels, lift our spirits and gain&nbsp;better&nbsp;perspective within our busy lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What has been happening here at The Wave?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a short distance to the northeast from the surfing lake there is a really different meadow-like environment&nbsp;with a lot of wild flowers. And we\u2019ve got <strong>four hives here that we&nbsp;set-up&nbsp;in&nbsp;midsummer<\/strong>.&nbsp;They are just getting established,&nbsp;and we\u2019re providing an environment for theses bees&nbsp;so that they can flourish and prosper and feed&nbsp;on&nbsp;all these lovely wild&nbsp;flowers.&nbsp;Obviously there&#8217;s&nbsp;been&nbsp;a lot of development&nbsp;over time here&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Avonmouth&nbsp;area, so there is a lot of concrete&nbsp;and&nbsp;metal. Therefore&nbsp;the&nbsp;natural resources that remain are so important to protect and what you are doing here at The Wave is incredible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This plot was&nbsp;low-grade&nbsp;farmland&nbsp;that&nbsp;did&nbsp;not have many hedgerows,&nbsp;or&nbsp;a lot of diversity of grass seeds or plants.&nbsp;So&nbsp;I&nbsp;can see&nbsp;that one of the things you have done in building The Wave&nbsp;has been&nbsp;to improve the biodiversity. You\u2019ve already&nbsp;done this wonderful thing&nbsp;with&nbsp;this landscape,&nbsp;and now we&#8217;re hoping&nbsp;to add to that by&nbsp;introducing more bees and helping this&nbsp;all&nbsp;to&nbsp;flourish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What&nbsp;types of flowers and plants&nbsp;do the&nbsp;bees&nbsp;like here?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment&nbsp;there&nbsp;is a lot&nbsp;of&nbsp;ivy,&nbsp;which is really brilliant for them.&nbsp;They also love&nbsp;the hedgerows&nbsp;that are&nbsp;full of brambles and&nbsp;blackthorn.&nbsp;And&nbsp;in early summer there were&nbsp;huge&nbsp;swathes of chamomile&nbsp;and buttercups,&nbsp;which they enjoy. And&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;also&nbsp;got&nbsp;a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;clover&nbsp;at the moment.&nbsp;Plus&nbsp;you&#8217;ve got loads of brooks and&nbsp;natural&nbsp;water sources&nbsp;around here,&nbsp;which is great. A&nbsp;lot of other plants,&nbsp;flowers,&nbsp;insect&nbsp;and bird life tend&nbsp;to thrive as the bees thrive, so a thriving bee population&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;indicator&nbsp;of a&nbsp;really healthy environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now&nbsp;as we move into&nbsp;the winter&nbsp;the bees&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;less active&nbsp;and&nbsp;will reduce in size just because there&#8217;s less to&nbsp;forage.&nbsp;But one hive has&nbsp;about&nbsp;30,000 to 60,000 bees, so the populations are really impressive. The worker bees live for 30 days, so they&#8217;ll sweep out all the ones that have died. But it\u2019s the queen who lays all the eggs and sets the tempo for what the bees are doing. They all have exact roles, and operate in this kind of dance with nature. But certainly the&nbsp;dance&nbsp;gets smaller&nbsp;and slower&nbsp;to get through winter.&nbsp;Then&nbsp;when spring comes in again and&nbsp;there is an&nbsp;abundance of food, the&nbsp;queen will start laying again, the populations will increase again, and the dance comes alive again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What will&nbsp;we&nbsp;do with the honey&nbsp;created&nbsp;here at The Wave?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With honey it\u2019s all about only taking if there is surplus. First and foremost&nbsp;we&nbsp;<strong>ensure&nbsp;that the bees have enough honey to do what they need to do to get through the winter<\/strong>.&nbsp;And if there&#8217;s an abundance, then we harvest some of the yield.&nbsp;At&nbsp;the moment&nbsp;since the hives are so new this is really about&nbsp;engagement with&nbsp;your&nbsp;Wavemaker&nbsp;team,&nbsp;to really&nbsp;understand&nbsp;and enjoy&nbsp;the process of keeping the bees. We just tried the first harvest of honey&nbsp;which&nbsp;everyone loved. But I believe that the plan&nbsp;eventually&nbsp;is&nbsp;for visitors to be able to&nbsp;enjoy the honey, perhaps as something&nbsp;for guests to take away after a stay in The Camp.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Local&nbsp;single-source&nbsp;honey is&nbsp;so good in&nbsp;our&nbsp;diet&nbsp;because it\u2019s full of antioxidants&nbsp;and reduces cholesterol. <\/strong>It certainly helped my daughter&nbsp;with her hay fever.&nbsp;What\u2019s interesting is the bees will work a&nbsp;six&nbsp;mile radius,&nbsp;so in many ways,&nbsp;honey is&nbsp;a bit like wine,&nbsp;where&nbsp;you have years&nbsp;with&nbsp;particularly great honey, and different flavours in other years.&nbsp;For example there may have been&nbsp;loads of lavender&nbsp;or dandelions or&nbsp;blackthorn in one&nbsp;year, and this&nbsp;will&nbsp;influence the flavours. Then things will&nbsp;change depending on the weather we have&nbsp;and what grows in&nbsp;the&nbsp;radius&nbsp;that the bees work, all&nbsp;impacting&nbsp;the&nbsp;colour,&nbsp;consistency&nbsp;and&nbsp;flavour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what is really special is&nbsp;the way keeping bees grounds people and gets them aware of their local environment. <strong>It was really lovely watching your team of&nbsp;Wavemakers&nbsp;come together and connect with the bees, the landscape and the honey<\/strong>. This team engagement is something I really see happening positively through beekeeping. It\u2019s a great way to get employees who don\u2019t normally work together talking and doing. It generates a real vibrancy and unity.&nbsp;The&nbsp;hands-on experience of actually getting involved&nbsp;means that&nbsp;you&nbsp;are living and breathing what you stand for as a business. 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