Swarm
Queen Bee
- Joined
- May 29, 2011
- Messages
- 7,961
- Reaction score
- 700
- Location
- South Wales
- Hive Type
- national
- Number of Hives
- more than 20, less than 100.
There must be forage or the hives wouldn't be there. When I think back to where I grew up, a small village between two railway lines and nestled next to two collieries and a drift mine, we had slag heaps at the end of the street. The Bargoed Taff river had been covered and flowed through a tunnel beneath the one track and the colliery yards. (It has since been uncovered when the site was reclaimed)
On top of a desolate hillside overlooking all this my friend's Grandmother ran a farm where she kept quite a few hives. This was early 1960's and the pits were in their heyday, diesel locomotives hauling enormous lengths of coal trucks on both tracks, the ground used to move. Not wonderful surroundings for bees but within a hundred yards of the upper track, the mountain side opened up into meadows and hedgerows that stretched, unhindered, for a few miles.
It's funny but my childhood recollection is always the heavy scent of Hawthorn in the air, I suppose we took all the industrial stuff for granted and didn't even notice it.
On top of a desolate hillside overlooking all this my friend's Grandmother ran a farm where she kept quite a few hives. This was early 1960's and the pits were in their heyday, diesel locomotives hauling enormous lengths of coal trucks on both tracks, the ground used to move. Not wonderful surroundings for bees but within a hundred yards of the upper track, the mountain side opened up into meadows and hedgerows that stretched, unhindered, for a few miles.
It's funny but my childhood recollection is always the heavy scent of Hawthorn in the air, I suppose we took all the industrial stuff for granted and didn't even notice it.