James Pettigrew Apiary

James Pettigrew Apiary Why was Carluke a center of beekeeping between 1780 and 1950? The Clyde Valley was a center of soft fruit growing. James Pettigrew specialised in bees.

To improve the pollination of the plants, farmers kept bees and beehives as support to farming. James Pettigrew specialized in bees and hired out hives for a season. James Pettigrew gained his experience in Scotland, England, South Africa, and Kenya and came back to CARLUKE. The James Pettigrew Apiary is looking to show the changing history of beekeeping in Carluke. Andrew Pettigrew, his son, took

James’s knowledge and used it to write a bestselling book which was so important it went to six editions. When James and Andrew started beekeeping, they used bee boles like these. Beekeepers then moved to wooden hives and poly-hives.

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James Pettegrew Apiary (JPA)

JPA is part of the Carluke High Mill Project, its aim is to run a small apiary for educational purposes. It will cover the prosses of building the apiary, managing Scottish Black Bees, preparing honey for sale. This is a very small part of the hole High Mill project taking up a 6m by 6m plot in the corner of the allotments.