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Mark McKellier
- North Wales
- United Kingdom
- Hawarden Honey
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Mark McKellier
Profile Information
- Zip Code
- CH5 3SD
- Title
- Beekeeper
- Company
- Hawarden Honey
- Website
- http://www.hawardenhoney.com
- Restaurant Segment
- Not Applicable
- I work at the unit level and my role is
- Not Applicable
- I work at the corporate level and my functional area is
- Not Applicable
- I work for the foodservice industry and my profession is
- Manufacturer / Food
- Interests
- Discovering New Food, Locavore, Making Friends, Networking, Organic Foods
- Personal Quote
- Always have a plan Bee
- Biography
- Although my day job is a graphic designer my hobby is beekeeping.
I currently have 6 hives and hope to expand in the future.
I'm a vegetarian who eats fish. I'm the cook in my house and I try and grow most of the vegetables and fruit we eat too, I try and live ethically, so you'll find me sourcing food locally, recycling everything and using renewable energy where I can. I'm big on corporate responsibility too.
I'm a big reader (about a book a week) and have a huge eclectic collection of music.
- Years in the Industry
- 2+
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White House Garden to Feature Bee Hives Too
Posted on March 27, 2009 at 8:17am 1 Comment 0 Likes
First Family Joins Bee Keeping Trend
I went to pick up my bee hives this weekend - and the supplier looked exhausted. He was out of veils, smokers, hive stands and even bees. It seems many people are rallying around our favorite pollinators in their time of need - after all, rumors of the return of Colony Collapse Disorder are rife. Now the bees have a new and powerful… Continue
Artificial Sweeteners: They're Enough to Give Some People a Headache
Posted on February 17, 2009 at 2:56am 2 Comments 0 Likes
By Jennifer Huget
I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners. I don't care for the way they taste, and one variety in particular gives me headaches. So imagine my dismay when I recently shopped for my favorite chewing gum and found its tiny but satisfying amount of real sugar had been replaced with aspartame, one of the leading fake sweeteners on the… Continue
UK Gov stumps £4.3m bee health funding
Posted on January 29, 2009 at 5:40am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The environment secretary Hilary Benn today announced an extra £4.3m "to safeguard and undertake more research into the health of bees".
The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (Defra) explains: "Over the last two years Britain's bee colonies have suffered significant losses due… Continue
How eco is a Christmas Tree?
Posted on December 17, 2008 at 6:53am 3 Comments 0 Likes
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
In these eco-aware times, what sort of Christmas tree can be justified?
Leo Hickman has the answer
It's at this point each December where I begin to feel as if I'm being haunted by the ghost of Christmas dilemmas past. Every year most of us go through the ritual of… Continue
Wagamama gives customers tipping information on menus
Posted on November 20, 2008 at 5:09am 0 Comments 0 Likes
(old news but relevant after previous post about tipping)
Fast growing Japanese noodle chain Wagamama is to include information about its tipping policy on menus over fears customers will stop rewarding staff.
Wagamama, which has 59 UK outlets and 33 international sites, said it was planning action because it… Continue
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~ Judy
That ninja video you embedded on my page is awesome! And yeah, those are the toys I was talking about!
Have an awesome Tuesday!
Have an awesome day!
Could be just as easy as taking a bike ride to the market or doing all your shopping on one day for your food.
Take care and thanks for the posts and joining the Amanda group!
Is there a 'localharvest.org' type of website that serves the European community? I would like to add it as a resource on my website, if there is. Thanks!
Valid point - but the cycle has to be broken somewhere in the chain to start the process off.
Farmers might import fertilizers from a long distance and so increase the carbon footprint of the farmers produce, but if the farmer has local market demand, rather than sending his product another long distance, then it's a start in the right direction.
We ALL have to change the way we do business, nothing will ever be achieved if everyone in the chain 'blames' each other with reasons like "well if they don't, why should we?", "we're only responding to demand" etc.
At first glance it would seem that you are right, but what if a local supplier is not reducing the carbon footprint of the inputs used to create the product but a supplier further away is - then which is the right path?
Often it's not easy to determine the product's carbon footprint when we start looking at the entire chain of events involved in its "production" and delivery due to inadequate transparency or lack of data. So in an era of limited resources, should organizations looking to affect change push for greater transparency regarding the product's carbon footprint along its entire production chain lifetime ("cradle-to-grave"), or simply focus on achieving a more immediate solution through carbon offset projects and the such?
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