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Bristol Independents Day 4Th July BRISTOL FOOD NETWORK Bristol’s local food update bee special july–august 2012 Where would we be without bees? Certainly a few fruit short of a full harvest. In this issue we hear from the University of Bristol, the Bristol Beekeepers and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust about how we can help our pollinating friends, while Bristol Friends of the Earth give us the run-down on current bee campaigns. Please email any suggestions for content of the September–October newsletter to [email protected] by 17 August. Bristol Independents Day 4th July Bristol Independents Day is a great The recipe cards can be picked up at The report What problems do independent excuse to try out some new-to-you independent and community venues food businesses experience in Bristol? independent shops, cafes, pubs or across the city, and can be downloaded which is now available for download at: market stalls – maybe in a part of town from the Bristol Independents website. http://bristolindependents.co.uk/ that you’re also unfamiliar with. resources/ How to enter the competition And if you shop or eat out ‘independently’ 1. Shop or eat out on 4th July at one on 4th July, and show us your shopping, of Bristol’s many independent outlets then you can enter a free prize draw for (Bristol Independents include shops, other local goodies. Foodie prizes on offer market stalls, cafés, pubs, etc). so far come from the Mall Deli, Thali Café, 2. Keep your receipt, or take a photo of St Nicholas Market, Leigh Court Farm and yourself shopping independently. Pieminister, amongst others. Some shops also have special offers for 4th July only – 3. Send us a copy of your receipt or photo Bristol’s local food update is produced by by post or online, saying where you volunteers at the Bristol Food Network, see the Bristol Independents website for with support from Bristol City Council. shopped on Independents Day. the latest details, and sign-up for the blog The Bristol Food Network is an umbrella updates, so you don’t miss a thing. Everyone who shows us their shopping group, made up of individuals, community projects, organisations Also on 4th July, the Bristol Independents will be entered for our free prize draw to win more local goodies. The Independent and businesses who share a vision to campaign launch their second set of 8 transform Bristol into a sustainable which has the most competition-entering recipe cards, featuring different shopping food city. The Network connects people shoppers on the day will also win a prize. areas in the city. Each card has some working on diverse food-related issues – from getting more people growing, to evocative photos of the area on one side, http://bristolindependents.co.uk/ developing healthy-eating projects; from and a recipe using ingredients that can bristol-independents-day-4-july- tackling food waste, to making Bristol be bought in that area, on the reverse. competition-announced/ more self-sufficient. BEE SPECIAL Bees and the City – Urban Pollinators Emily Coyte & Dr Andrew Higginson Our society really owes a lot to insect pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies for a number of reasons. Most important of all because we like to eat! It’s been estimated that a third of the food on our plates is the result of insect pollination. The loss of these unassuming critters would have serious consequences for our diet and lifestyle. There are tens of thousands of flowering plants which have evolved to depend on pollinating animals, usually insects, for their reproduction. Many of these plants and their fruits either go directly onto our plates, or into the animals we raise for meat. Other species form an integral part of the beautiful, fascinating ecosystems around us. So many species depend on each other for survival, and insect pollinators are a fundamental part of this. Put simply, pollinators are worth protecting, and the steady drop in numbers means they need this protection An experimental annual meadow, alongside the M32. © Dr Katherine Baldock now more than ever. repercussions for the garden owner. For richer and healthier urban environment in There has already been a lot of attention example, hoverfly larvae are voracious the future. given to the decline of the commercial hunters of aphids (such as greenfly) which For more information about Urban honeybee, but native species such as can destroy roses and other prize plants, Pollinators, please visit the blog bumblebees, hoverflies, butterflies and so looking after the adults by providing www.urbanpollinators.blogspot.co.uk or the hundreds of solitary bee species are them with nectar-rich flowers is a pesticide- follow the twitter account @BrisUrbPolls also in trouble. These native species are free way to keep aphids in check. actually more important pollinators for While individual gardens can be great Biographies many plants, and so need our protection havens for wildlife, it is crucial to find Emily Coyte is a University of Bristol even more than honeybees. ways of connecting up the green spaces science graduate. She writes science and It has been known for a while that in our towns and cities as much as nature articles for Bristol 24-7 website and pollinator populations have been possible. These ‘wildlife corridors’ support is the creator of @Sciword Twitter account declining, but we’re still not entirely biodiversity by allowing insects to travel which provides a daily dose of science sure just how much or why. The Urban further with better breeding opportunities vocabulary. Pollinators project is a three-year study than the same size of green space made Dr Andrew Higginson is a Research led by researchers from the School of up of isolated pockets. To help and Associate in Theoretical Ecology in the Biological Sciences at the University of measure the effects of this, the Urban School of Biological Sciences, University Bristol that aims to understand more Pollinators project is creating large flower of Bristol. A strand of his research centres about pollinators in urban environments. meadows in 15 sites in public parks and on the foraging behaviour and breeding Bristol is one of four cities they are school grounds in each of the four cities of strategies of honeybees and bumblebees. focussing on, together with Edinburgh, focus this year. Leeds and Reading. The benefits of creating flower meadows Links to references (black & bold in text) Gardens and other urban areas could be are many-fold. They not only look more www.sciencedaily.com/ really important to the survival of bees, attractive and colourful than disused releases/2006/10/061025165904.htm hoverflies and other insects, perhaps patches of grass, they provide vital food http://oldweb.northampton.ac.uk/aps/ even more so than the countryside. The throughout the year for insect pollinators env/lbrg/journals/papers/ollerton2012- large range of different flowers found and require less frequent cutting, saving overplaying-role-of-honey-bees.pdf in our gardens provides a reliable food councils money. While Britain in Bloom www.sbes.stir.ac.uk/people/goulson/ source which sustains insect populations is starting to support flower meadows in documents/GoulsonetalJAE2010.pdf throughout the year. In contrast, modern urban environments, the Urban Pollinators farming practices like intensive wheat and project will hopefully provide scientific www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england- barley monoculture mean pollinators can evidence of their importance. This could gloucestershire-14191108 actually struggle to find enough food in motivate a nationwide change in policy www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ rural areas. Keeping gardens pollinator- about how we manage public urban areas outdoors/9026247/Britain-in-bloom-goes- friendly can also have really useful for insect pollinators, so we can expect a wild.html 2 bristol’S loCAL FOOD UPDATE · JULY–AUGUst 2012 BEE SPECIAL Bee campaigns Two Bristol groups Bristol Friends So you want to keep bees! of the Earth and Safe Land for Bees Susan Carter are working together to highlight the urgent issue of the decline in all bee populations (honey, bumble and solitary bees). We are aware that other local groups are working on this, and we would like to make contact with them. So if you are, please email Pip Sheard at [email protected] with short details of your bee work. We are hoping to persuade the Post to feature articles on the bee issue. Campaigns by the Soil Association and Neils Yard on the issue of neo- nicotinoid pestides used in farms and gardens, have called for a ban on their use in the UK (as in other countries). This has resulted in a Government review being announced. Household garden products to avoid are at www.soilassociation.org/wildlife/ bees/householdpesticides The Co-op is leading the way to bee Bristol Beekeepers in action © Peter Grindon friendly policies in its land use and Beekeeping is an esoteric art, and not or any other area frequently used, you may purchasing policy. Safe Land for Bees for the faint-hearted. A healthy colony have to compromise. The bees should be are urging that the impacts of mobile can contain 50,000 stinging insects, flying well above head height before they phones and particularly phone masts which need to be handled gently. cross your boundary. on bee navigation are investigated further. The theory of beekeeping can be grasped Like any livestock, bees need regular by attending a course, but there are a attention. Between the beginning of Friends of the Earth nationally are few practicalities to consider before April and the end of July, they should be collecting signatures on an e-petition you acquire a colony. Keeping bees is a checked every 12 days for queen cells; if to David Cameron (with cards running long-term project; a year to learn basic one hatches, the hive can swarm.
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