Site for hive

[Strawbee]

Still looking for a site in the Congleton Cheshire area for my first hive next year any info welcome

 

[Anduril]

Have you tried speaking to farmers and placing hive/s on farmland.

 

[theeggman]

Have you tried speaking to farmers and placing hive/s on farmland.

Go to a local pub or 2/3 buy a pint or 2 and talk and ask the locals, us yokels promise not to kill you, but talk to us and it's amazing what and who we know. If your area is like this part of Devon, in the local you can get all of the local gossip for about 20 miles around.

Get out there and talk/ ask, we're friendly really. Good luck.

 

[Millet]

Instead of going into them local pubs and getting drawn into arm wrestling and bale throwing competitions have a look to see if the pubs have a notice board, if they do stick a leaflet in offering a pollination service with some free honey for the land owner.

 

[Anduril]

Go to a local pub or 2/3 buy a pint or 2 and talk and ask the locals, us yokels promise not to kill you, but talk to us and it's amazing what and who we know. If your area is like this part of Devon, in the local you can get all of the local gossip for about 20 miles around.

Get out there and talk/ ask, we're friendly really. Good luck.

Devonshire folk are friendly, got a number of relatives near Tavistock.

 

[Anduril]

Instead of going into them local pubs and getting drawn into arm wrestling and bale throwing competitions have a look to see if the pubs have a notice board, if they do stick a leaflet in offering a pollination service with some free honey for the land owner.

Don't place your pint glass upside down if you do go inside.

 

[Millet]

Don't place your pint glass upside down if you do go inside.

That's a silly thing to do.. lol.. one you will empty your pint and two you will dare not stand up as it will look like you have peed yourself..

 

[Anduril]

That's a silly thing to do.. lol.. one you will empty your pint and two you will dare not stand up as it will look like you have peed yourself..

Sorry I should have said empty glass. Got it yet?

 

[Millet]

Sorry I should have said empty glass. Got it yet?

Na i am far too thick for that..

 

[Anduril]

Na i am far too thick for that..

It means you are the toughest guy in the pub and want a fight. I know someone who unwittingly did it in Dyfed 30 years ago and a farmer offered to fight him.

 

[Clemcook]

Go into pick you own farms! That's how I got my site

 

[Strawbee]

Thanks for the advice I'll try that

 

[Herbalist]

Siting a Hive

Still looking for a site in the Congleton Cheshire area for my first hive next year any info welcome

You are asking about Cheshire - not Devon. I have lived in both. (Exmouth and Wilmslow). They are very different. In the part of Cheshire that I lived, I doubt that you would make much progress in a pub - but it may be worth a try. I now live in Nottingham. This is different again. Where I live the local authority place notice-boards for local people to post stuff for free. They do not allow advertisements or any commercial stuff. If your local authority do anything like that it would be a good starting place. A good notice could read something like "Can You Give Some Bees A Good Home?" You might be surprised at the goodwill people (with gardens) have for bees that do not want to manage a hive themselves. Alternatively it might be worth contacting the local Farmers Association who may be able to steer you in the right direction.

 

[Strawbee]

Update on my hunt for a hive site in Congleton SUCCESS i
Now have a site in a kind land oweres field only 2 mins ride away also came across 2 national hives at bargin price so I can now educate and plan for spring next year

 

[Clemcook]

Well done! Best of luck to you