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UK: Queen meets beekeepers and youngsters toasting marshmallows on visit to children’s wood project in Glasgow

She met with children roasting marshmallows and received a jar of honey from a young royal fan.

The Queen quipped ‘perhaps if you had some beans’, but then looking down at some produce beginning to ripen she added: ‘That’s tempting too, the strawberries.’

By Harriet Johnston
Daily Mail
June 30, 2021

Excerpt:

The Children’s Wood Project is a dedicated green space designed to connect local people with nature, raise aspirations and bring the community together through outdoor activities such as gardening, beekeeping and forest schools.

During the visit, The Queen and The Princess Royal spoke to local young people about the benefits of the Wood Project and their experiences of having access to the outdoor space, particularly during the pandemic.

As part of a volunteering session at the beekeeping area, the mother and daughter heard from local beekeepers who lend their time to maintaining the wood’s beehives, before meeting a group of community gardeners tending to their allotments.

During their tour the royal party met beekeepers looking after hives built into a ‘Beedookit’ – a bee version of a dovecote where the insects enter hives high off the ground and so are not disturbed by the public.

Beekeeper Kathleen Friend told the Queen: ‘You can sunbathe outside it and they don’t seem to mind.’

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