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When local people are asked of their memories of Broomfield House they almost always mention ‘the beehive’.
On the first floor of the museum there had been a ‘display beehive’, made with clear sides so the bees could be viewed working on the honeycomb frames and coming to and fro through a clear tube to the outside as they went to forage for nectar and pollen.
2pm - 4pm Sundays
Volunteers needed
Could you help us with physical work in the orchard or with fundraising, publicity or doing a wild flower survey? If you would like to be involved in this exciting new project in some way, sponsor a tree or just come along to have a look, we would like to hear from you - please email us
or just turn up when we're open.
Bee keepers: Kim Lumley, Ivor Evans , Cathy Hooper.
After the Community Orchard had been established it was decided to bring honeybees back to the park and the Broomfield Apiary was established.
It was set-up in 2012 by Paul Stiles, who was the principal beekeeper until 2017 with the help of Zahir Anwar and with support from Fred Clark (one of the most venerable of Enfield beekeepers). The bees benefit from a plentiful variety of nectar and pollen including horse chestnut, lime tree blossom as well as wild flowers and flower gardens in the local area.
The beehives are kept in a screened corner of the Orchard where our team
The first trees were planted in December 2009 as part of the national Tree O’Clock event, at which over half a million trees were planted throughout the UK.
The Orchard is laid out with two diagonal avenues of apple trees, dwarf step-overs and espaliers along the sides. There are 44 different varieties of Apples, as well as other trees including Peach, Quince, Medlar, Mulberry, Plums, Hazel, Damson and Pear trees. There are 100 trees in the Orchard, along with a Hawthorn hedge to the adjoining bowling green.
It is beautiful and peaceful place to visit with it's fruit trees and bee hives set in a wild flower meadow.
