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BBC News
7 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
Bristol Beekeeping Café buzzing to help new enthusiasts
A new café where customers can order bees or locally produced honey has well as coffee and cake, the Beekeepers Café in Redhill, Somerset, is selling all the equipment budding apiarists will need to manage their own hives - including the insects. The café is part of West Country Meadery, which has been producing honey for eight years. Bosses hope the venture will provide a "really good" launchpad to those hoping to try their hand at keeping Rod Jenkins said: "It's important to keep bees, especially for the environment, but it's also important that people do it properly. We don't want to spread diseases, so we teach people how to look after them properly." West Country Meadery is the brainchild of husband and wife duo Rod and Tracey started their journey when Rod bought Tracey her first hive for Christmas in 2017. She said the hobby "got a bit out of hand" and they now manage six apiaries across farmers fields, orchards and their own land. As well as their own produce, the café sells books on beekeeping, suits and gloves. Rod and Tracey also want to give aspiring keepers the chance to get "hands-on" by offering experience May and August, people can visit the café, get suited up and head to an apiary to lend a hand with inspections and 'hive smoking,' a practice used to keep bees café will then offer visitors the chance to buy their own bees and hive.
Irish Times
9 hours ago
- General
- Irish Times
Barbecue piri piri chicken thighs with coleslaw
Serves : 4 Course : Dinner Cooking Time : 40 mins Prep Time : 15 mins Ingredients For the piri piri sauce 2 onions, peeled and quartered 2 tomatoes, halved 5 garlic cloves, peeled 2 red chillis, whole 3tbs olive oil 1tbs honey Zest and juice of half a lemon For the dry rub: 2tbs smoked paprika 1tbs dried thyme 1tsp chilli powder 1tbs dried oregano 1tbs garlic powder 1tbs onion powder 8 boneless chicken thighs ½ white cabbage 2 carrots 2tbs mayo ½tbs wholegrain mustard ½tbs white wine vinegar Sea salt and black pepper Handful fresh parsley, chopped 1 red chilli, sliced 2 spring onions, sliced Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Start by making the piri piri sauce. Place the onion, tomatoes, garlic and chilli on an oven tray and drizzle with the olive oil. Roast in the oven for 30 minutes at 220 degrees until golden brown and soft. Transfer to a blender, add the honey, lemon zest and lemon juice, and blend to a smooth sauce, then set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 200 degrees. Mix the dry rub ingredients together in a small bowl, then season the chicken thighs evenly with the rub. Place the seasoned thighs on an oven tray and cook in the oven for 25 minutes at 200 degrees. While the thighs are in the oven, make the coleslaw. Remove the dense core from the cabbage, then very thinly slice the cabbage using a sharp knife or mandolin and place in a mixing bowl. Peel and grate the carrots and add to the bowl. In a small bowl, mix the mayo, mustard and vinegar together, then add it to the cabbage and carrot. Season with salt, pepper and chopped parsley and mix lightly until evenly combined, then set aside. Remove the thighs from the oven after 25 minutes and brush them with the piri-piri sauce. The thighs can be finished in the oven for a further five minutes at 200 degrees, but ideally place them on to a preheated barbecue on a high heat and cook for two to three minutes with the lid closed, then turn them and cook them on the other side for another two minutes with the lid closed until browned and charred. Then remove and allow to rest for five minutes before serving. To serve, spoon the coleslaw into a sharing serving bowl alongside the chicken thighs. Garnish with some sliced red chilli and spring onions.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
‘Naughty' bears escape, steal a week's worth of honey and take long nap
In the fairy tale, Goldilocks goes into the home of the three bears to eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. But at the Wildwood Devon conservation park in Britain, it's the bears who are doing the breaking and entering — and sleeping. Two young bears named Lucy and Mish escaped from their enclosure earlier this week and headed straight for their food store, where they gobbled up a week's worth of honey before falling asleep, the park said in a statement on social media.
BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Rogue bears' honey supply replenished by community in Devon
A pair of bears who escaped and raided their keepers' food store in Devon are in the honey once more thanks to generous community donations. European brown bears Mish and Lucy sparked a "code red" on Tuesday, in an escape that conservation charity Wildwood Trust said was caused by an unlocked dynamic duo consumed "a week's worth of honey", the trust said, as well as jam and other supplies - prompting a "sugar rush" and leaving a depleted larder in their Habben, director of zoological operations at Wildwood Trust, near Exeter, said: "I think everyone's picked up on the fact bears really do love honey - we've had donations including a 15kg (33lb) tub." Mr Habben added: "We've also had donations to purchase more honey."It's just been been really lovely support from the local community."I couldn't have more gratitude for how people have responded to this and rallied around and offered support and also come in to see Mish and Lucy."People have picked up the cheeky element of bears, I think, and that they're a lovely, peaceful animal."Mr Habben said they had also been inundated by visitors since the incident captured imaginations across the country and beyond. It was at about 15:00 BST on Monday that the young bears "breached" the enclosure and made their way to a staff the duo "feasted and played around", a park evacuation and lockdown took place, while staff trained in firearms and the police were deployed to the about 55 minutes, Lucy made her way back to the enclosure, while Mish was lured back with a bell and some food. 'Crashed out' Mr Habben said the sugar from the honey hit the bears shortly afterwards."They gorged on honey and then they somehow needed to burn all of the energy off that that honey had created."They charged around for a good few hours, climbing up the trees, which was really fun to see, and jumping in the pond."He said they then "crashed out" in a deep sleep "for hours" - just as an influx of visitors arrived to see the now-famous bears."I think it was all of the running around from the sugar rush coupled with all of that sensory enrichment from being somewhere they shouldn't. They are like toddlers." Mr Habben said a safety review was now under way to ensure the unlocked gate "never happens again"."We've been transparent that a mistake was made but at the end of it is a really positive ending and the engagement has been great."
The Sun
4 days ago
- General
- The Sun
Two bears ESCAPE at UK zoo with visitors locked down and cops scrambled as bosses probe how they got out
TWO escaped bears channelled Winnie-the-Pooh — and made a beeline for the zoo's honey store. Mish and Lucy, both 5ft and 30st, were caught on CCTV nosing through supplies before guzzling a week's worth of the sweet sticky treat. 5 5 5 5 Visitors were ushered into secure buildings and the satisfied five-year-olds wandered back to their £100,000 enclosure for a nap. Mark Habben, director of zoo operations at Wildwood Devon, in Escot Park, near Exeter, told The Sun: 'We'd had a huge food delivery an hour before. 'It was still in boxes and they made their way straight to it. 'They tore into containers and also smashed a jar of peanut butter.' Police headed to the scene while staff monitored the European brown bears but a zoo spokeswoman added: 'Mish and Lucy posed no threat. 'They enjoyed a selection of snacks — including the honey — before being safely returned to their enclosure by the keeper team within the hour. 'Then they fell asleep.' The siblings arrived at the zoo in 2022 after they were found as cubs in 2019, abandoned by their mother in the mountains of Albania. It was deemed too dangerous for them to be returned and they were kept briefly in Belgium. I work at London Zoo and my day even includes making Tea for the animals Wildwood said at the time it wanted an enclosure that was as natural as possible and launched an appeal for funds. The pair soon settled in and became firm favourites with its visitors. Mr Habben said: 'We are investigating how they got out — but we suspect they've gone through an unlocked gate. 'We've managed bears for 21 years and never had an incident like this. 'Mish and Lucy are going to be on a restricted diet. 'It's only the bear necessities from now on.' 5
