Our first honey harvest
Last summer, we introduced honeybees to our Altham and Huncoat sites. Since then, with support from specialist beekeeping training, staff at The Senator Group have been learning, nurturing - and now harvesting - our very own organic honey. It’s been a hot and dry season, making things tougher for the bees - but they’ve worked steadily through it.
They’ve produced enough honey to support themselves through autumn, and we’ve taken a small first batch to share. The honey will be used in our site canteens, with some heading to our sister company, Mytton Fold Hotel.
The Senator Group has been committed to implementing projects that have a long term, positive outcome on our natural world, for over 40 years, long before it was fashionable or expected to do so. Bees are part of the biodiversity on which we all depend for our survival. These purposeful pollinators contribute directly to food security.
According to bee experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a third of the world’s food production depends on bees. But sadly, bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities including habitat loss, intensive farming practices, changes in weather patterns, air pollution and the excessive use of agrochemicals such as pesticides.
