New bee studio to be built at Stonebridge City Farm to drive sustainability and education
Stonebridge City Farm will have educational tours of their new honey studio
By Henry Green
A new ‘bee studio’ at a Nottingham inner city farm is moving honey production indoors so it can become sustainable and welcome more educational visits.
The studio, at Stonebridge City Farm in St Ann’s, will allow the farm to harvest its own honey indoors and will be open before the summer.
The new building will welcome education tours where visitors will be able to learn about bees and the process of making honey.
Stonebridge City Farm’s marketing events coordinator Grace Devey says the honey studio will help the farm become more sustainable.
“We also want to create educational visits so when kids and schools come we will be able to show them the hives and just teach them a bit about bees and why they are so important to everything that we do,” she said.
The farm has struggled over the winter to attract visitors and donations but as summer approaches it is expected visitor numbers will increase.
“It’s almost like the opposite of what we need, in the summer when everything is a little bit cheaper we have loads of visitors on site , so it is not as bad,” Grace said.
“But in the winter when things get more expensive, the amount of visitors decreases so much so it is a bit of a balancing act,” she added.
On show to visitors will be the extraction of honey from the beehive, and the spinning and the jarring of the honey.
The new building hopes to attract more visitors and donations as it was revealed in October 2024 that the farm was costing £1,300 a day to run, in maintenance, energy and staff and other costs.
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