WILLIE’S BEES FIND A NEW WEBSITE  (March 2007)

Willie Robson’s honey bees are currently taking things easy in their winter quarters in sheltered parts of north Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, but in the meantime Willie, of Chain Bridge Honey Farm, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, has commissioned a new website to sell the farm’s impressive quantity of honey and its by-products following a rich harvest last year.

In recent years the farm, which stands on the banks of the Tweed near the village of Horncliffe, has built up a wider range of products to make better use of the vast amounts of beeswax produced by the millions of bees kept by Willie in some 1,800 hives within a 40-mile radius of  Berwick.

The website, www.chainbridgehoney.co.uk, has already produced a lot of hits and new orders for the honey farm.  “It is a very lively and informative site and has attracted a lot of attention and favourable comment, “ said Willie.

Willie’s brown bees, apis mellifera, which are indigenous to northern Europe, produced record quantities of honey and beeswax last summer and in 2005, and are currently awaiting the arrival of Spring.  “They will venture out when the temperature reaches 52 deg. F,” said Willie, “but the last two Springs were bitterly cold and they didn’t appreciate them at all.