Londoner wrote:Home made HONEY and jam!!!! now home made jam is possible but how on heaven they can make home made honey on small allotments, which are usually located inside cities. To produce honey you have to keep honey bees, which have to be kept away from people miles and miles away.
produce of these small allotments cannot be organic because most of them use chemical fertilisers and pesticides. All allotments are beside each other. If only one of them uses pesticides and chemical fertilisers it will make the rest of the allotments inorganic.
Most allotment groups have one apiary on the land
Many allotments forbid the use of pesticides and opt for more natural methods of pest control
Allotments are all about growing ones own healthy food - it is only the large commercial growers who need to use pesticides in order to produce a cash crop
Fortunately there are still rural/farming areas where strong pesticides are not used - especially cattle/sheep farming as people fear the pesticides will get into the food chain - also stables where multi-million pound horses are kept safe from pesticides
Many people in urban areas as well as rural areas have apiaries in their gardens
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Surprising as it might seem MANY people living in city FLATS keep bees in a spare room - with the window open a small amount
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Bees do not have to be kept away from people










