Five ways to help the honeybees

We want the Government to ban neonicotinoids to help ensure the health and future of our honeybees. You can support our call by signing our petition today. There are lots of other simple actions you can take in the meantime to help protect these precious creatures.
 

• Buy organic food: Organic farmers don’t use neonicitinoid pesticides which have a major impact on bees. They also have more complex crop rotations, which means that there is a greater diversity of plants for bees to forage on. Supporting organic farmers at the checkout is an everyday action with a big impact
• Join the Soil Association. By becoming a member of the Soil Association charity you are helping to fund our campaigning and policy work on this, and a range of other important issues like food security and GM.
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• Write to your MP. Writing to your MP to raise this issue is a powerful way of making your voice heard.
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• Use organic techniques in your own garden. Garden pesticides also have the potential to do damage to bees, and good rotations give an extra diversity of flowering crops. Use a wide variety of plants in your garden, and don’t be too tidy. Leave wild flowering plants in place, and ivy is a particularly important source of late season winter food for bees.
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• Take up beekeeping. If you've got the space, then keeping your own colony of bees is a great way of boosting bee numbers. There are some excellent courses available as part of our Organic Farm School programme.
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