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After recent discussions about organic honey I thought some members may be interested in the hoops an organic beekeeper would have to go through to produce organic honey in the UK.
The attached document outlines all the rules for growing food and managing livestock to organic standards generally but if you want to "cut to the chase" go to the last section 3.17 on page 184 for the bee stuff. Although this is the only section that relates to the keeping of bees a beekeeper would still have to comply with several other sections of the document as indicated in the first paragraph.
https://www.soilassociation.org/media/15931/farming-and-growing-standards.pdf
I wondered if this might be worth a "sticky" as it does crop up from time to time.
The attached document outlines all the rules for growing food and managing livestock to organic standards generally but if you want to "cut to the chase" go to the last section 3.17 on page 184 for the bee stuff. Although this is the only section that relates to the keeping of bees a beekeeper would still have to comply with several other sections of the document as indicated in the first paragraph.
https://www.soilassociation.org/media/15931/farming-and-growing-standards.pdf
I wondered if this might be worth a "sticky" as it does crop up from time to time.