What Flowers can you Eat? It’s surprising how many flowers you can eat! Flowers have been used in cooking and as decorations for thousands of years adding colour, flavour, texture and of course therapeutic benefits. Today they can be found in a variety of restaurants around the world but you can also try some edible […]
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Apr
Apr
Which are the best trees for bees in the UK… and why is it important to save the bees anyway! Did you know, you have a bee to thank for approximately one in every three mouthfuls of food you eat? Without pollinating insects, much of our food would not grow – honeybees are responsible for […]
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Nov
Nov
If you’ve heard about Yule and Yuletide but don’t know much about them, read on to see 6 things you might not know about Yule!
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Jan
Jan
Did you know, most skincare is mainly water! Whilst there’s nothing wrong with putting water on your skin, the chemicals added to water-based skincare are not good for your skin – we’ve listed them here
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Nov
Nov
We’re on the countdown to Christmas 2021 and started to think how we could support local Oxfordshire Businesses this Christmas – there are no two ways about it: it’s been a weird couple of years. But if there can be any upsides to this global catastrophe is that it’s made us reevaluate. Take stock of […]
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Nov
Nov
Aaaah the faithful festive cracker! how about making your own home made Christmas crackers… Christmas Day just wouldn’t be the same without them – home made Christmas crackers. They add the final flourish to the festive table, the snap and the whoop only add to the cheer, the questionable joke something to unite us in […]
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Feb
Feb
Beeswax has been used to make polish for hundreds of years and can be used to enhance and protect many products made from wood or leather – wooden furniture, chopping boards, bowls or utensils; leather bags, shoes, furniture or clothing. (It’s also great for skincare – which is where we focus passions here at Neve’s […]
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Jun
Jun
Maybe there are some Happy Vibes to be found, even in these strange times. I was recently asked to write a ‘Pause for Thought in Oxford’ for our local BBC Oxford Radio, I was really flattered … but perhaps a bit overwhelmed as to what on earth I could talk about that people would want […]
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Jun
Jun
Is beeswax vegan? is beekeeping cruel? Neve, my daughter, and I are Oxfordshire beekeepers – these are questions we are often asked. Beeswax is created, by the bees, from honey. They use beeswax to build their hives and to ‘cap’ the honey to seal it into the honeycomb – it is this ‘cappings wax’ that […]
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Feb
Feb
Back in Spring 2019, we decided we wanted to do something more useful with the field in front of our house. With an interest in Nature Recovery and as a consequence of working with BBOWT, we decided to turn our old cow-field into a Wildflower Meadow. We’ve written a series of blogs to capture our […]