THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Essex Bees (Part 3)
In part 3 of our interview with Richard of Essex Bees, he offers us reasons for growing your own food. …
Essex Bees Interview (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our interview with Essex Bees (here is Part One) Richard tells us about his interest in Permaculture and, with great alacrity, how you too can ‘downshift’ your life. Where did you learn about Permaculture? I first read about Permaculture in a magazine article. Looking into it further I found that it supports an ecological balance between people and their environment, it tries to create a sustainable life support system for the planet, and suggests action after observation – i.e. think about what you’re doing and don’t ride roughshod over everything else to achieve your interpretation of …
Essex Bees Interview (Part 1)
This is an interview with Richard from Essex Bees. We did this partly as a follow up to the interview with Rosybee and partly because the work the two Essex boys of Essex Bees do is fascinating – please do read on to learn more about how they became beekeepers! What is it Essex Bees do? Essex Bees set-up and manage bee hives with the support of private individuals, public bodies and businesses, mainly across the south and east of Essex. We also extol the virtues and benefits of not only honey bees but all pollinating insects by giving talks, …
Landscaper Essex
Landscaper Essex? Here are photos from a project Modern Mint have been working on over the last few years – do contact us if you want to chat about how we, as a garden designer or landscaper, can help you with your garden. Alternating cherries and apples along a serpentine wall of this long driveway helps to soften the landscaping… Low maintenance planting against the house to repalce a rose that had died. Ceanothus will grow taller to add a better sense of scale and interest to the wall. Check out the rosebay in flower over the wall – nightmare weeding the seeds that land …