Bees and Trees was formed as an educational charity more than 25 years ago.
Structured as a limited company it has undertaken a series of projects.
Focusing primarily on traditional varieties of fruit & promoting native strain bees in straw skep hives.
WORK WITH bees and trees
Schools & groups
Bees and Trees bring our projects in schools, running workshops and educational days.
We provide interactive history sessions in schools, mainly focussing on the tudors , specifically Tudor timber framed building, with the aid of an actual third scale copy of a timber framed house that the children build.
we run various craft workshops in schools, traditional skep beehive making, lip work (a red listed craft)
events & Talks
Bees and Trees attend a number of events in the year, showcasing our third scale timber framed house, apple varieties and peeling over the years, skep making, bees in woodland, victorian beekeeping, fruit preserving , medicinal peasant living
Paul also is very experienced in giving talks to gardening groups …..
courses
Bees and Trees run courses at our base on the welsh borders, but also travel all over the place to bring our courses to associations and educational groups.
Martha runs courses on skep making and lip work, keeping this red listed craft alive.
Paul runs orchard based courses on grafting pruning etc.
Courses on Skep Beehive Making,
lip work,
and KEeping bees in skeps
Join us at Whitton Cottage for courses or book us to come to you.
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