I’ve recently added an SEO plugin to my website to help me write things that rank better on Google. Possibly I’m behind the curve here because AI is changing how we interact with online content but that’s not particularly relevant here. What I’m really interested in is how the internet and things like SEO (Search […]
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A beautiful sunny day – we’ve not had many of those this winter and we took the opportunity to finish up the hedge laying for this year. There’s still lots of hedge to do and by the time we finish it all the first bit we layed will probably need doing again. But this years
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It felt like spring today which was a welcome change after what feels like weeks of grey skies seemingly made greyer b a cold east wind. But today no wind and the sun was shining and Hares Rise felt like a wonderful place to be. First stop was to check the bees. The hive was
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Introduction Bee-keepers have probably been arguing about which is the best hive design for as long as there have been bee-hives and with the invention of the movable frame hive in the mid 19th century those arguments intensified. Bee-keeping periodicals from the second half of the 19th century are full of these debates and those
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When people ask why humans should care about bees the first answer is almost always ‘pollination’ and the explanation almost always always focuses on how humanity benefits from ‘pollination services’. There’s nothing wrong with this answer and pollination is vital not just for our well-being but for much of life on Earth. But maybe its
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