{"id":81,"date":"2006-08-05T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=81"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:18:27","slug":"why-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Why bees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking me &#8216;why do you want to keep bees?&#8217; It&#8217;s difficult to explain.<br \/>I&#8217;ve always secretly fancied myself as Felicity Kendal in The Good Life? Well maybe a little bit but I don&#8217;t do all the other things like grow my own food, I get one of those organic boxes delivered.<br \/>I&#8217;ve always loved honey? Yes, that&#8217;s true, but I&#8217;m not keeping the bees primarily for their <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">tasty<\/span> secretions.<br \/>It&#8217;s partly about creating a little corner of the countryside in W9.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankensale.me.uk\/\">cheap fjallraven kanken Backpack<\/a> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">After all<\/span>, my cottage-style garden looks like a meadow in the spring and a beehive completes the pastiche.<br \/>It&#8217;s partly because I like bumblebees &#8211; because they&#8217;re furry and synonymous with a perfect English summer&#8217;s day &#8211; and knowing nothing about honeybees, I thought they were the same thing!<br \/>But the main reason for my new hobby is that I read an article a couple of years ago which said around 70% of the food that we eat depends on bee pollination and that bees are threatened by intensive farming and urban sprawl, so it seemed an easy way to save the planet.<br \/>What turned this nice thought into action, however, was my new boyfriend.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/basket--tn.html\"> tn<\/a> For my birthday, Brian bought me a beekeeping book and paid for us both to go on a one-day introduction to beekeeping course at Roots and Shoots.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/-roshe-run.html\"> roshe run<\/a> At the end of the day, I was hooked.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/-chaussures.html\">s<\/a> We saw their hives and the bees coming and going.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankensale.me.uk\/kanken-no-2.html\">  Backpack<\/a> It didn&#8217;t need to be difficult or technical &#8211; although some men seem to turn beekeeping into a biology lesson.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/-air--1.html\"><\/a> There were people on hand to help. 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