Kate and Pippa Middleton purchased 1,000 bees for their brother, James
James Middleton has written an article for the Daily Mail about his love of bees.
Kate and Pippa Middleton's brother revealed that his family "clubbed together to buy what for me was the most fantastic birthday gift imaginable"
James now shares his passion with his fiancée, Alizee Thevenet.
Most people know that Kate and Pippa Middleton's brother, James Middleton, has a love of dogs, which he regularly showcases on Instagram. But James has just shared that he is also a big fan of beekeeping.
In a new article written for the Daily Mail, James revealed that his family encouraged his love of bees. "I’d always harboured a longing to keep bees, but it wasn’t until I turned 24 in 2011 that the wish became reality," he wrote.
He told of how the Middleton clan stepped in and helped get James started as a beekeeper. "My family—mum, dad and my sisters Catherine and Pippa—clubbed together to buy what for me was the most fantastic birthday gift imaginable," he said. "A delivery van arrived with a large buzzing box with the cautionary label: 'Live Bees.' Inside was the nucleus—the start—of my colony: 1,000 Buckfast bees."
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From there, his collection only grew. "I now have almost half a million bees in eight hives in a meadow at our family home, Bucklebury Manor in Berkshire," he wrote.
Beekeeping is known as a low-maintenance, economical and highly rewarding pastime, with the added benefit of producing your own honey - which has myriad health benefits. Beekeeping also promotes the vital conservation of bees and helps with cross-pollination, as the bees travel from one flower to the next collecting nectar.
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