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COMMUNITY

Bees

Finally, our hives are up and
running at Boltons Park Farm!
After a tricky start with new queens
being introduced, we now have
two thriving colonies of bees in our
beautiful new beehives at the farm.
Students and staff have attended
beekeeping training sessions led
by our brilliant local beekeeper
Terry Davis.
It’s incredible to see the bees at
such close quarters with some of us
were lucky enough to see new bees
emerging from their cells. Hopefully,
we will be selling our very own
Boltons Park Farm honey next year!

Charitable

donations

We continue to collect
and donate food items to
our local food banks in
Milk Potters Bar and Hatfield
and will continue to do this
Towards the end of this year, throughout the year.
we are going to start selling
the milk from our 90 strong Through our freecycle
Holstein Friesian/Brown Swiss scheme, we have also been
herd at Boltons Park Farm. able to donate blankets,
sheets and towels to a local
A milk vending machine will offer
full and semi-skimmed options in kennels and cattery, where
reusable glass bottles. The milk they were gratefully received.
will be pasteurised and skimmed
on site, meaning we can go from
grass to glass in zero miles, with no
transportation emissions. This will
be sold from a newly converted,
accessible barn on the farm.

If you live nearby please do
come and visit.

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