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Well done to local brothers Andrew and John Shinnick from Blackwater Honey in Cregg, who won gold for the 3rd year in a row at the Irish Quality Food & Drink Awards at The Mansion House, Dublin last week.
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Peter Dowdall: How to make life sweet for bees in your garden
Choose pollen-rich flowers to provide much-needed food for bumblebees and other insects and add colour to your garden
One-third of our 99 bee species are at risk of extinction. Picture: iStock
Sun, 14 Feb, 2021 - 15:30
Peter Dowdall
It s that fabulous time of the year when we begin to see growth emerge from the energy beneath the surface once more. The seemingly delicate and tender snowdrops and crocuses have battled through frozen ground to open-up in glorious, colourful bloom.
Soon, that annual switch will go off in each one of us which sends us longing for the outdoors once more, a longing which is exacerbated this year for obvious reasons of lockdown.