Bee Safari 2025
Ready for one experience guaranteed to cause a buzz?
What to expect
Jean will introduce you to some of the garden's fabulous bumblebees and solitary bees. Her bee safari will help you understand how to garden to support all of our bees and other essential pollinators. This bee safari will introduce you to the huge diversity of garden bees, show you the sorts of flowers that really make a difference, and reveal some fascinating things you may not know about our amazing garden bees!
Jean Vernon (aka Jeanie Bee) is an award-winning writer and author of The Secret Lives of Garden Bees. She is on a mission to unravel, demystify and explain the intricate balance of nature. Jean wants to introduce everyone to the familiar and unfamiliar bees and other important pollinators that live in our gardens.
This experience includes arrival coffee, your talk, tour and garden entry. All that sweet nectar!
The Finer Details...
2025 dates now available for booking or treat someone special to a gift voucher for 2025.
Thursday 24th April
Saturday 14th June
Saturday 12th July
Thursday 21st Aug
Ticket Price: £29 pp, ages 12+
Start time: 10am (lasts approx 2½ hours)
Visiting us…
Getting here
Public transport here leaves a lot to be desired, so you’d be best to come by car, bike or foot. We’re just 15 miles south of Bristol (off the A38).
Accessibility
There is access for wheelchairs, and mobility scooters to the cafe. In the garden itself, there is extensive use of gravel and grass which can be limiting. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Parking
There’s plenty of free parking available at the Yeo Valley Organic Garden and our HQ. We encourage reverse parking and have disabled access spaces. So you can just turn up and park up! Easy.
Events - Bee Safari
I went on a Bee Safari with author Jean Vernon in the Yeo Valley Organic Garden to learn more about bumblebees and solitary bees. The session was excellent, combining an entertaining talk with images in an airy yurt followed by a walk into the adjacent gardens to take a closer look at the bees.
I visited Yeo Valley Gardens today with my mum and sister in law for one of the events, which was a Bee Safari. We had a great morning and were greeted with tea, coffee and cake while watching a presentation about bees. We then went on a walk around the gardens and met the delightful farm dogs. The gardens are beautiful and we learned from the Bee Safari there are hundreds of types of bee. We then had a closer look at a few of the bees we found.
We had a wonderful time today on the Farm to Fridge tour/experience. Roy & Helen were exemplary ambassadors and added to our experience throughout. Thoroughly recommend this as a very worthwhile day out although you may not get as lucky with the weather as we did - a quintessential English summers day!
My son had booked us onto the Best of Both day that included coffee/tea on arrival and then a cookery demonstration, which was followed by lunch, that included some of the items we saw being prepared. After lunch we had a guided tour of the garden, followed by afternoon tea/coffee and cake. The whole days was very enjoyable.
I spent the day at the Yeo Valley Organic Gardens last week at Drawn in the Garden with the very talented and lovely Natasha Clutterbuck. Wet weather drove us into the greenhouses for the day, but this did not detract from a few hours of drawing and painting, surrounded by an array of beautiful plants, flowers and vegetables. All in all the perfect way to spend a day sheltering from the unseasonal torrential downpours.
How to get here
Public transport here leaves a lot to be desired, so you’d be best to come by car, bike or foot. We’re just 15 miles south of Bristol (off the A38).
Yeo Valley Organic Garden & Events
Yeo Valley Organic Garden
Holt Farm, Bath Road
Bristol, BS40 7SQ
