Busy bees at Woodland Cemetery produce record-amount of honey for New Year

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The resulting honey is now being sold at the cemetery. “Next time you visit Cheshunt Cemetery, go up to the office in the Woodland section and buy yourself a 300g jar of the very best natural honey, for only £10,” Rabbi Hulbert said.

All proceeds will go towards the JJBS gardening budget, helping to maintain the grounds in which the bee hives themselves thrive.

The bees are part of a wider effort to care for Woodland Cemetery as a natural environment. Gardener Dom Hambis helps maintain the grounds, which have been deliberately designed to provide an environmentally friendly setting for burial.

The Woodland Cemetery is being developed as a natural wooded area, and as the plants mature, the intention is for the site to develop into a tree-covered landscape. Non-natural materials are discouraged on headstones.

The burial ground forms part of the wider work of the JJBS, which oversees several cemeteries serving over 40 Progressive, Masorti, and independent communities. Non-Jewish partners are also able to get buried in its cemeteries.