Sainfoin in Oxfordshire

[BBG]

We are told there are large tracts of Sainfoin grown in Oxfordshire.

Has anyone put hives near this crop.

What are the results like.

Sainfoin is good for cattle and makes good hay for horses too.

Honey from Sainfoin is very good and allegedly medicinally beneficial.

Oxfordshire Bees you must be close or have heard of this.

 

[OXFORDBEE]

Not heard of any around me...

 

[davemacdon]

Not heard this rumour either.

Dave.

 

[poshpikey]

The farmer next door has got sainfoin as part of the mix in his pollen and nectar strip. ('crop' grant aided by DEFRA to help bees etc)

 

[oliver90owner]

I know my brother was 'chopping' it last year. Not sure where, but I will now ask. I need to recover a Lister CD at some point. Wouldn't be a million miles from Somerton.

 

[BBG]

The farmer next door has got sainfoin as part of the mix in his pollen and nectar strip. ('crop' grant aided by DEFRA to help bees etc)

We're still trying to educate on this in Devon

Local gamekeeper is replacing melilot and chicory cover with kale. "Not much good for the bees is it." He grinned. (as they do )

"No, or the environment you're creating for your children." Says we ......

Fields are like green deserts.

- it's going to be a long, long haul

 

[Hivemaker.]

Local gamekeeper is replacing melilot and chicory cover with kale. "Not much good for the bees is it." He grinned. (as they do )

Kale is good for bees when in flower, they work it well.

And a good cover crop,but planting little flowers would not be much use on a shoot as a winter cover crop.

 

[BBG]

Didn't realise it was so good - only remember standing almost waist high in it in October in the60s as the first drive began and us beaters looked forward to getting soaked from the rain held in its leaves.

Is the honey good flavour?

 

[Illo]

When I lived in Oxfordshire some years ago, I recall there was a fair bit around Uffington, up towards the ridgeway and west of the white horse.

LJ