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Tyneside Beekeepers' Apiary
The former Gateshead Council Central Nursery is now being used by the environmental charity Groundwork, though they need to be off the site in two years as the Council is selling it for executive housing. Nevertheless, Groundwork have offered the recently-established Tyneside Beekeepers Association a corner of unused land for use as a temporary apiary. So a group of us visited it recently to help clear it ready for use. We also provided the lunch – game pie and blackberry and ricotta flan left over from the Bowes Show.
Until 2009 I was working in London, UK, but I gave it up to pursue a life of self-sufficiency. My aim is to grow or forage for all my food, produce my own power and live a healthier and greener lifestyle. I left London to return to my home village of Sunniside, near Newcastle, in the North East of England. I have a couple of plots of land there as well as the garden of my house. Our village is a commuter area for Newcastle but we are surrounded by countryside which we use for picking wild foods. My mission in life is to show that it is possible to live well without destroying the planet in the process. I am also keen to ensure knowledge of historic recipes and cooking is kept alive. I regularly try out recipes from old cookbooks using the food we have grown. I make videos about our progress and about how to cook home-grown foods. These can be viewed on www.youtube.com/jonathanwallace.
www.self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com
Source: http://self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2016/09/tyneside-beekeepers-apiary.html
