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| feral trade london honey |
| Honey from volunteer-built hives in Stave Hill Eco Park, the hives are non-standard size, some research shows the bees prefer it. Beekeepers Leanne Knox, a Visual Basic for Applications programmer for banks, and her husband Craig, Perl programmer, have kept bees here for the past 2 years and are currently expanding their hive count from 3 to 12. The bees forage in a rich floral landscape including lavender and thyme. Closest tube station Canada Water.
ferally traded since: 28/05/09.
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| | FER-1490 | | Rotherhithe London, UK to HTTP gallery London, UK | | dispatched 28/05/09 delivered 28/05/09 |
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| london honey shipment FER-1490
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| REMARKS: | paid in cash |
| QTY: | 6 units at jar each |
| FROM: |
Rotherhithe in London, UK
http:// |
| TO: |
HTTP gallery in London, UK
http://www.http.uk.net |
| SENDER: | Leanne Knox |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 26/05/09 and 29/05/09 |
| INVOICE: |  invoice-1490 | | STATUS: | delivered HTTP gallery 28/05/09 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
ruth catlow
Leanne Knox
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Rotherhithe-Canada Water tube station-Manor House tube station--HTTP gallery |
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| london honey Rotherhithe to HTTP gallery
1. leanne knox and langstroth stave hill eco park 2. leanne knox hives 3. honey ecologies 4. cash for honey 5. russia dock woodlands leanne langstroth 6. stave hill itself 7. harmsworth quays mail standard 8. canada water tube |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1490 import purchase & freight
| | 6 x london honey jar | gross | per jar |
| honey paid | £36 |
£6.00 |
| walked, free | £0 |
£0.00 |
| tube zone 2 to 2 via zone 1 | £1.6 |
£0.27 |
| total | £37.6 | £6.27 |
| | Courier Report FER-1490 DISPATCHED: 28/05/09 DELIVERED: 28/05/09 kate rich Met Leanne Knox at Docklands Hilton courtesy bus stop Canada Water station, Leanne was easily identified by her giant greyhound, a retired racer. She and her husband Craig, both New Zealanders, chose to live here for its proximity to both the City and Canary Wharf, for their main income writing code for banks, although Leanne would like to transition to keeping bees full time. Walked to Stave Hill via a detour due to canal closed off for major construction works, after which the ultra buffed / shaved grass and concrete gave way to dense and floral foliage on entering Russia Dock Woodland. The bee hives are lodged in adjacent Stave Hill Eco Park, the keepers provide bee-related educational activities to the park in lieu of rent. Leanne told me more about the hives which have movable wooden frames like a suspension filing cabinet. The floor design is unusual and was developed from online plans. It has a removable mesh so when varroa mites fall off the bees they can't climb back up. Varroa are the rats of the bee world, they feed on bee pupa but more importantly carry diseases and bacteria.
The greyhound Langstroth who is named after the inventor of the modern movable frame bee hive - before that honey was hunted not kept so extracting a comb would trash the whole hive for the rest of that year - gets stung a fair bit as he's a mammal and smells like a predator. Cash paid for honey, then walked back past Stave Hill, Harmsworth Quays printing works home of quality newspapers the mail, evening standard and metro, to Canada Water tube from where the honey travelled by tunnels to Manor House; picked up by Ruth Catlow in the furtherfield company car. |
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| freight and handling london honey to HTTP gallery sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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