Landshare for bees - from the co-op

[alldigging]

http://www.co-operative.coop/planbee/hivetalking


Interesting to read this as I remember reading someone saying the co-op bought the farm they had their hives on and wanted them off.

 

[Pete D]

Looks handy for hive theives.............. X marks the spot where my hives are kept.
Although in principle its a good idea.
My association try to put people in touch with each other when there is a request along these lines but this only works if someone makes the initial effort to contact them........although perhaps if they dont make the effort they are not that serious.

Pete D

 

[psafloyd]

I'm going to try it out and see if I get any contacts. I haven't placed it where my apiary is, just my town.

 

[Russel]

Isn't this a bit like Landshare from Hugh was his name? Still every little helps!

 

[alldigging]

Isn't this a bit like Landshare from Hugh was his name? Still every little helps!

That's what I thought. A minor tweek on the landshare site and they'd be able to do this matching service too.

 

[Poly Hive]

All very laudable but...

You cannot beat getting of your chair and going out looking. Only you know what kind of situation you are looking for, and only you can decide if it is right for you.

In over 20 years of asking I think I have been refused three times.

Land owners are far more responsive to "Can I put x hives there, compared to Have you anywhere I can put x hives", the 2nd is far easier to refuse.

PH

 

[tonybloke]

Land owners are far more responsive to "Can I put x hives there, compared to Have you anywhere I can put x hives", the 2nd is far easier to refuse.

PH

good advice, PH

 

[nosmoking]

Apart from the Co-op's ethical banking I wouldn't have anything to do with this. Mainly because they operate the Bee Campaign and can't bee arsed to give us beekeepers cheap, split bag sugar. As all they've done for me as a member is send me some 'weed seeds'. I've got enough weeds of my own thanks!

 

[Andy Duff]

I don't want to be overcritical, BUT I would have at least used a photo of a couple of well looked after hives; poly or newish nationals, NOT the pikey's campfire that they have used.

 

[itma]

Apart from the Co-op's ethical banking I wouldn't have anything to do with this. Mainly because they operate the Bee Campaign and can't bee arsed to give us beekeepers cheap, split bag sugar. As all they've done for me as a member is send me some 'weed seeds'. I've got enough weeds of my own thanks!

They have been rather generous to the Dover Association. Certainly at a corporate level they have been 'doing stuff' rather than just saying stuff.

I suspect you might possibly be over-generalising a refusal to "give" you sugar.

 

[psafloyd]

They have been rather generous to the Dover Association. Certainly at a corporate level they have been 'doing stuff' rather than just saying stuff.

I suspect you might possibly be over-generalising a refusal to "give" you sugar.

Their corporate comms has been woeful, though. I tried to get involved with the scheme from a media point of view and they didn't even keep me up to speed about the launch in the south. Peas-pauvre.

 

[nosmoking]

They have been rather generous to the Dover Association. Certainly at a corporate level they have been 'doing stuff' rather than just saying stuff.

I suspect you might possibly be over-generalising a refusal to "give" you sugar.

I didn't mean 'give' as in free. I meant 'give' as in cheaper. And, Dover Association are lucky then is all I can say.

 

[Browntea]

I've had about 10 kg of free sugar from one of our local coops