Description
Come to the High Peak and spend a fun and relaxed afternoon with a maximum of three other learners building your very own bee nesting box and learning about the wonderful world of solitary bees. We’ll start the workshop with pre-cut materials, all ready for you to personalise to your own design using only bee (and eco) friendly treatments. You’ll get to choose a design to stencil and burn onto your box making it your very own. You’ll then treat the wood in a choice of colours, before we get to gluing and hammering the final box together. Throughout the workshop we’ll talk about how amazing solitary bees are, and why we should be encouraging them into our gardens. Please note that this workshop focuses on solitary bees, not honeybees!
What's included in the price?
• All materials to decorate and build your bee nesting box are included • 30 tubes for your bees to nest in • Guide to siting your box and planting for bees • Tea, coffee and snacks provided
Duration
3 hours
Cancellation policy
Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts
Maker
Suitable for
- Adults
- Seniors
- Hearing impaired
- Mother's Day
- Easter
- Suitable for beginners
- Pet lovers
- Engagement, birthdays & anniversaries
- Father's Day
- Christmas
- Public transport
FAQs
There will be a maximum of four people per workshop.
Just one cat – if you have an allergy, please let me know. He won’t be joining us in the workshop, but I can make sure that he’s well out of the way.
I don’t have parking on site, but there is easy parking within a very short distance. I am also within a 4-minute walk of New Mills Newtown train station, and 20 minutes’ walk from New Mills Central. There are also buses from Buxton and Manchester Airport that stop close by.
No. Whilst we are not using power tools, there will be hammering and working with a pyrography pen (to burn your design into your nest box) so this workshop is not suitable for those under 18.
You’ll learn more about this on the day, but honeybees are farmed and doing well (I’ve nothing against honeybees!) whereas the focus of this workshop are the bees that are native to the UK – and are in decline.
I only use eco-friendly wood treatment which protects the wood after just one application. You can either use the treatment as it comes, or I have a selection of natural, water-based colours which you can add to it.