Richard Rickitt is co-editor of BeeCraft, the UK's best-selling
beekeeping magazine. Richard first learned beekeeping over 40 years ago and  as well as his own bees, keeps hives for a number of clients. He is beekeeper at Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, and gives talks and teaches courses on beekeeping, pollination and gardening for bees. He frequently speaks on the subject here, abroad, and on radio and TV, making him one of the UK's best-known beekeepers. He has written hundreds of articles on the subject and is author of the multi-award-winning book Beekeeping for Gardeners (Bloomsbury) which he will be able to sign on the day.

Jean is an award-winning writer with a passion for wildlife, pollinators and especially bumblebees and solitary bees. Jean is on a mission to demystify, unravel and explain the intricate balance of nature in your garden and to introduce you to the familiar and unfamiliar bees and pollinators that exist in the garden habitat. Jean will be taking her popular garden-bee tours around the Herbetum during Jekka's Herb Days, focussing on bumblebees, solitary bees and the herb flowers that they feed on. She will be signing copies of her books – The Secret Lives of Garden Bees and Attracting Garden Pollinators.

Amy is a Bath-based basketmaker, working with willow and hazel grown locally. Natural, bark-on willow is a very special material as there is such an array of colour and texture to choose from among the hundreds of varieties available, adding extra scope for creativity in the design process.

Weaving very much with the gardener, cook, forager and lover of natural materials in mind, Amy's baskets are a useful and beautiful addition to any home.

Bees Wax Alchemy use beeswax from their own hives and from commercial and hobby bee keepers across the South West. Their honey is from their own hives, all of which are in remote areas, either on moorland or old meadows that are used for light grazing by sheep, and as such are full of wild herbs and flowers.

Bees Wax Alchemy ethos is sustainability, supporting the environment and the belief that if you look after the invertebrates the rest of the food chain will look after itself.

Seilich is a unique and award winning natural skincare company. Their products are natural in the truest sense of the word; their ingredients having grown-up freely in a pure and wild place. They are based on powerful Scottish botanicals, handpicked from our wildflower meadow in the Lothians of Scotland. As well as being the source of ingredients, the meadows provide sanctuary for a variety of pollinating insects such as bees, butterflies and beetles.