Butterflies & Bees

Hello

After a wonderful, inspiring, wildlife packed weekend away at Downshay farm campsite nr Swanage www.downshayfarm.co.uk exploring glorious meadows and coastal walks around the purbeck hills it’s back to work on the Bee Green projects here at Naish Farm, we have already left set aside areas of meadow grasses, thistles & teasels to give the birds & butterflies a helping hand, but we’ll soon also be planting specific plants to attract them. Which will include hops – which are great for Comma butterflies, buddliea, - which are loved by Butterflies , Bee’s & the humming Bird hawk moth. To find out more about how to attract butterflies to your garden & how to help endangered species visit www.butterfly-conservation.org

The new Bee shack garden will include a Butterfly & Bee flower bed, a wild area, a raised veggie patch for the team, a herb bed & a picnicing lawn for our lovely Bee shack customers to enjoy.

My Husband Marcus ( The Thatcher) Has spotted some amazing wildlife this week from his vantage point on the Farm house roof, he saw a Hobby flying over, a flock of around 80 + finches in the trees next to the garden and a sparrow hawk attacking a small bird ( The bird got away!) .

Thanks for reading, Charlotte x

view from farm house roof

view from farm house roof

Devils bit Scabious

Devils bit Scabious

3 Responses to “Butterflies & Bees”

  1. Susan Bicknell says:

    I found your site via Dorset Cereals, I think it is very good what you are doing on Naish Farm for the wildlife, however when I went onto your Facebook site I was disappointed by the following entry

    ” Honeybuns: Had great if knackering day in London yesterday. Meeting loyal customers & new prospects alike.Great to see what new products are out there.
    I’m off to Brighton this afternoon for a cuple of days-promoting our new cookies & looking out for quirky,wonderful cakestands & enamel ware in the Lanes.Can’t wait.
    Em x ”

    Possibly you will think I am being old fashioned in criticising your choice of the word knackering but I am only 54 and many people of my acquaintance would find this an odd choice when describing a day out in London and in connection with promoting a company selling cakes and biscuits. It is a slang expression as per the dictionary I have quoted below.

    A knacker is a person in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as work horses that have died in harness or are too tired to work any more.[1] This leads to the slang expression “knackered” meaning very tired, or ready for the knacker’s yard, where old horses would be slaughtered and made into dog food and glue. The word is derived from the old Irish word for a horse (an each) pronounced a nack. From this is derived the word for a horse dealer (an eachoir) , pronounced a nack-ower anglicised to a knacker.

    Surely there were other words that you could have used such as exhausting, shattering or gruelling?

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