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We’ve undertaken an inspection of the bee hives before the colder weather sets in. The results are really encouraging. O...
05/10/2024

We’ve undertaken an inspection of the bee hives before the colder weather sets in. The results are really encouraging. Out of 7 hives, 6 are very active with the bees continuing to bring in pollen. They have good stores of honey for the winter and the bees look healthy. No chemicals have been used against potential disease, and even where the hive has been “robbed” (naturally by other insects) there are no signs of dead bees or disease.

This is really positive and we hope our bees will survive the winter and we hope to welcome a swarm into the empty hive in Spring.

An update on our project to create new habitats for   colonies. A couple of weeks ago, in partnership with the  two smal...
03/10/2024

An update on our project to create new habitats for colonies. A couple of weeks ago, in partnership with the two small test ponds were dug in 2 areas within our site, to see if they could be viable sites for larger ponds. Looks like they’re going to work! Watch this space as the project will begin in full in Spring/Summer 2025 if the water can be naturally retained.

Today marked the start of a new project. We are really keen to see how we can help the Great Crested Newt by developing ...
20/09/2024

Today marked the start of a new project. We are really keen to see how we can help the Great Crested Newt by developing new habitat at our rewilding site.

Major loss of habitat has led to a sharp decline in the numbers of Great Crested Newts throughout the UK, and we are keen to provide a viable new habitat for them at Maple Farm. Today marks the start of the our project to help save these important amphibians.

We are always keen to showcase the exciting work we are doing within our rewilding site in Alfold, Surrey.  Our latest b...
23/08/2024

We are always keen to showcase the exciting work we are doing within our rewilding site in Alfold, Surrey. Our latest blog post highlights the newly introduced 'Wayfinders' weekends, where groups of young people enjoyed 3 weekends of practical nature based learning.

The Wayfinders weekends were a series of 3 on-site weekends at Maple Farm, that offered practical, field skills for young people covering grassland and birds , invertebrates and woodland, bats and reptiles The feedback from these sessions has been amazing, and by the last workshop, we were ove

New footbridges installed over the river Lox and the drainage ditch replacing the styles and stock fencing. Hopefully th...
21/08/2024

New footbridges installed over the river Lox and the drainage ditch replacing the styles and stock fencing. Hopefully this will enable wildlife to move more freely through the area (and hopefully any dog owners will respect the wildlife’s need for non disturbance)

Please click the link and nominate us for the chance of winning a special £5,000 grant that could further benefit our re...
12/08/2024

Please click the link and nominate us for the chance of winning a special £5,000 grant that could further benefit our rewilding 🌳🍂🐾 efforts :)

We could receive £5,000 in the Movement for Good draw.

Lovely to see young people learning about growing organic food ❤️
08/08/2024

Lovely to see young people learning about growing organic food ❤️

It’s holiday season 🏝️so please think very carefully before hopping on that horse drawn carriage 🐴, riding an 🐘 or 🐫 , o...
27/07/2024

It’s holiday season 🏝️so please think very carefully before hopping on that horse drawn carriage 🐴, riding an 🐘 or 🐫 , or having your photo 📸 taken with an animal 🙈 . There’s so much animal cruelty involved behind the scenes even though it may appear ok on face value. 😡

Today Animals Asia launches its ethical tourism campaign and calls on the new UK government to effectively implement animal welfare law to protect animals abroad.

Lovely to see the Forest School children doing some planting at our Charity’s allotment. 💚🌱🪴 .and.gill.forest.school
17/07/2024

Lovely to see the Forest School children doing some planting at our Charity’s allotment. 💚🌱🪴
.and.gill.forest.school

We had a great weekend on 6/7th July creating natural style tree hives for wild honey bees. 🐝 Thank you to our amazingly...
16/07/2024

We had a great weekend on 6/7th July creating natural style tree hives for wild honey bees. 🐝
Thank you to our amazingly dedicated participants, Jason Barrett Jason Dare, Danny from The Macs Farm Brian from Jack and Gill Childcare and Forest School Alex Carr, Miri and our fantastic natural bee keeping expert Matt Somerville from Bee Kind Hives.💚

Thank you to the Community Foundation for Surrey and The Surrey Hills Trust for making this possible.

At Maple Farm in Surrey, we have successfully crafted some natural style log hives to provide a wonderful habitat for wild honey bees. We are now able to make more of them and help bees further afield to thrive!

11/07/2024

It only takes a minute to give our charity a great opportunity to win a grant of £1000. Please click on the link to nominate us. We'd really appreciate it 🥰🙏

06/07/2024
We are delighted to welcome Matt Somerville to our rewilding site at Maple Farm in Alfold next Sunday where he will be i...
30/06/2024

We are delighted to welcome Matt Somerville to our rewilding site at Maple Farm in Alfold next Sunday where he will be installing 3 log hives and opening up an existing log hive for you to observe. He's an expert in bee-centred bee keeping and bee wilding, so this is a great opportunity to meet him and ask lots of questions... Maybe even consider ordering a log hive?

Matt's Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/_beekindhives_/ if you'd like to check him out!
Our Maple Farm rewilding Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/maplefarm_/

RSVP to let me know if you are coming at 07771 694168

18/06/2024

Another great step in our endeavours to help bees 🐝 live as naturally as possible. We have already erected some tree hives which are thriving with wild honey bees.

Now we want to demonstrate that it is possible to use kinder, more bee-centric hives to enable people to harvest honey 🍯 in a way that doesn’t rip apart their brood nest at every inspection, enables them to keep warm and cool, and thrive without too much human intervention.

🐝

Our resident sanctuary sheep 🐑 had their annual shearing today!
08/06/2024

Our resident sanctuary sheep 🐑 had their annual shearing today!

It’s that time of year again where the equine dentist checks our horses and ponies. Poor Hattie lost a tooth recently an...
06/06/2024

It’s that time of year again where the equine dentist checks our horses and ponies. Poor Hattie lost a tooth recently and today another wobbly tooth fell out! It’s so important to keep your senior horses teeth checked!

A great day at Heligan learning more about wild bees and bee-centric beekeeping.  There’s so much to learn and Simon fro...
24/05/2024

A great day at Heligan learning more about wild bees and bee-centric beekeeping. There’s so much to learn and Simon from Just Bee Eco Hives delivered a fantastic workshop. If you’re interested in being a bee ‘guardian’ or you want to know more about what’s best for the bees 🐝 then please do contact him (or us) 💚

FOR ADOPTION - PETWORTH, WEST SUSSEXDue to the passing of these lovely Collies’ owner 🖤Please share and help the PetReho...
14/05/2024

FOR ADOPTION - PETWORTH, WEST SUSSEX

Due to the passing of these lovely Collies’ owner 🖤Please share and help the PetRehomer charity find loving and suitable home for these delightful dogs 🐶🐶❤️💙💚🐾🏡

Yesterday we celebrated the start of our new collaboration with the Jack and Gill Forest school. Our rewilding site host...
14/05/2024

Yesterday we celebrated the start of our new collaboration with the Jack and Gill Forest school. Our rewilding site hosted the early years children at our outdoor classroom… a little later than originally planned due to the weather, but were really excited about being able to offer a great nature-based learning opportunity for them 💚🌳🌿

15/04/2024

At Charity buddy, we love ALL animals, not just pets or farm animals, but ALL animals.

And we’re sharing this video to show you the rats that live here. They’re wild, and their homes are in burrows around the hedgerows and in underground tunnels. They’ve been around for a long time and they come to the chicken house area to feed on the excess grain that the chickens birds and squirrels have left behind. They tidy up. They don’t hurt anybody. They’re just like every other animal with family to feed, and a life to live. So many people are frightened of rats or believe that they cause health issues. They have a bad reputation, but they don’t deserve it. If you truly love animals, please try and include rats in that lineup ❤️

We’ve added a layer of security to our hen area. During the day they have a woodchip area and a grass area, but this enc...
12/04/2024

We’ve added a layer of security to our hen area. During the day they have a woodchip area and a grass area, but this enclosure is great for early morning and pre-bedtime. 🥰🐔❤️

Hello from a few of our Sanctuary animals this morning 💚☺️👋
10/04/2024

Hello from a few of our Sanctuary animals this morning 💚☺️👋

07/04/2024

We’re delighted to welcome these lovely ladies to our sanctuary at Maple Farm.
💚🐔🧡

13/03/2024

How exciting!! On Easter Monday, 1st April we will be installing two “natural” bee 🐝 hives high up in the trees, and adding a more bee-centric Layens hive at our rewilding project, here at Maple Farm. Our bees are free, and we would love them to naturally swarm and populate these new homes. Later on in summer we’ll be running a workshop to make natural log hives to help house more wild bees in Surrey (details to follow). Thank you to the Community Foundation for Surrey for your support and The Surrey Hills Trust Fund.

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