Bee Friendly Trust Bee Box

Our beautiful Bee Box was designed by Petra Schmidt and created by craftsman Dante Villa. The box is packed with honey jars, each filled not with honey but by something – a foodstuff or product – that we would not have without the work of honeybees. The lid of every jar contains pollen – a …

Frome Safer School Streets, Somerset

A Safer School Street is an area that limits vehicle access during school pickup or drop-off, making it safer for people to walk to wheel to school. We were asked by Frome Town Council to provide 12 bee-friendly planters for their Safer School Street trial in 2024. Each self-watering planter was planted up by local …

Walton-on-the-Naze Railway Station, Essex

The unique planter at Walton-on-the-Naze features both bee-friendly planting plus a communal artwork created by the community. Poems and pyrographics were made by Tendring Writers Group, run by Faye Raithe, Shorefields School, Clacton Coastal Academy, and The Colchester Refugee, Asylum Seekers and Migrants Network (RAMA), through workshops hosted by Eleanor Brown at The Nose. The …