The truth about honey and how to help bees, with Rachel de Thample
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
4.4 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Guide Dogs. Guide Dogs is a charity that helps people with sight loss |
| 0:05.7 | live the life they choose. This time of year we can enjoy autumnal walks and swishing through |
| 0:11.5 | crunchy leaves, planning the veg plot, planting spring bulbs and spending time with friends |
| 0:17.0 | in a community garden. Now think how you would do those things if you lost your sight. |
| 0:22.6 | Guide dogs helps people with sight loss live the life they choose so they can fulfill their |
| 0:27.4 | ambitions, big or small, day in and day out. Being outdoors, exploring the world around us and |
| 0:33.4 | gardening is all about getting involved and trying new things, and so is a life well-lived. |
| 0:39.5 | By providing guide dogs, mobility training and other support services, |
| 0:43.7 | guide dogs helps people with sight loss from childhood to adulthood. |
| 0:47.5 | Because you don't just have to manage with sight loss, you can thrive with it, live independently, and live well. |
| 0:54.0 | Find out more about guide dogs' life-changing services or how you can support their incredible work at guidedogs.org.org. |
| 1:02.3 | Everyone deserves to live the life they choose. |
| 1:05.3 | Fulfill your gardening dreams and don't hold back. |
| 1:08.2 | Guide Dogs is here to ensure that people with sight loss can do just that. |
| 1:14.3 | Hello and welcome to the award-winning BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine. |
| 1:22.5 | Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts. |
| 1:30.0 | Bees gently buzzing from flower to flower in a warm, sunny garden, fresh golden honey spread on sourdough toast. |
| 1:38.0 | Keeping bees feels like the epitome of the gardening good life. |
| 1:41.8 | But what does it actually involve and how practical is it for the |
| 1:45.0 | average gardener? Hello, I'm Catherine Mansley from Gardner's World magazine, and I'm with the |
| 1:50.2 | cook and author Rachel DeTample to find out more about keeping bees, how we can all help bees in our |
| 1:56.1 | gardens, and some more delicious and unusual ways to use honey. |
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