"Does your home or business want a beehive? Tony Briggs at PLAN BEE will install and manage a fully working beehive for you in a unique opportunity for businesses or individuals who are looking to increase their support for biodiversity. And you get your own delicious raw honey."
I'll always be a photographer but PLAN BEE is a long-term project aside from my photography and film work, where I install honey bee colonies for businesses and individuals who are looking to support our threatened pollinators.
PLAN BEE adopts a natural beekeeping approach with a 'light touch', whereas far as possible, I allow my bees to live as they do in nature. This includes their environmental, genetic and management decisions. Where I can, I let the bee's decide what to do.
Alice and I moved to Campions in North Essex in 2005 and started our smallholding project. Where we can, we live 'off the land', using as many natural, free range and organic resources as possible, to grow, source and cook natural, sustainable, seasonal food.
And since 2005 I've constantly expanded our smallholding permaculture project and we've produced some of the best rare breed organic pork, chickens and eggs, fruit and vegetables, gourmet mushrooms and most recently, bees and our own raw honey.
So we can harvest you your very own raw honey and manage your beehive throughout the year. We take care of everything, PLAN BEE is an all inclusive service.
PLAN BEE's client list includes Holborn Studios, Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, Wivenhoe House Hotel, Cressing Temple Barns St.Osyth's Priory and Seckford Hall Hotel with many more to come in 2025.
We are also helping to reintroduce the native black honeybee that became almost extinct in the U.K into beehives across London and North Essex.
Honey bees have been around for over a 100 million years and have evolved perfectly. Each single bee is part of a perfect society, all working together as a living organism where each individual shows a selfless dedication to each other.
Everything they do has a single purpose; the survival of the colony and they carry it out with a relentless precision. They know they’re stronger together as a community and can achieve more than they can as individuals. It is tragic that honey bees are in such decline.
Honey bees are the only pollinator that produce honey that can be cultivated and managed, as all of our other native pollinators are wild. But they’re all threatened by the same problems; habitat degradation, pollution, pesticides, pathogens, changes in land-use and longer wetter, damper winters from climate change. The honey bee is also under attack from the Varroa destructor mite, the Asian hornet and colony collapse disorder. But if we can save the honeybees environment, we can save all the others for free.
PLAN BEE actively campaigns to preserve all our pollinators and needs your support. Prices for working hives are on a sliding scale, with discounts available for schools, colleges, care settings, and home gardens. Beehives and colonies can be bought, rented, sponsored or gifted with ongoing management of your hive and delivery of your own raw honey.
Having your own beehive is an excellent opportunity to contribute to supporting our critical pollinators and would make an excellent Christmas, birthday or anniversary gift. Drop me an email to discuss or to arrange a call or site visit.
PLAN BEE also provides an ethical honey bee swarm and colony removal service where no bees are harmed and the bees are safely rehomed, for quotes and site visits please email tony@tonybriggs.com
PLAN BEE is a member of the British Beekeeping Association
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