Northern Roots is encouraging people to apply to manage and develop its beekeeping location as a business.

Applications are open until Monday, January 16 at 10am.

The Northern Roots apiary includes 12 hives and bee colonies, with one observation hive.

The apiary has produced bee products including honey and candles – which have been sold across Oldham, including at The Boathouse Cafe in Alexandra Park, Bitter Sweet in Oldham town centre, and Spice Drive in Chadderton.

Events are also run at the apiary – such as family beekeeping experiences.

Northern Roots is looking for someone to manage and protect the hives all year round, and help with the production of saleable production including honey and wax.

The manager will also develop workshops and courses, and help to broaden accessibility to groups including residents and young people across Oldham.

More information on the opportunity can be found on the Northern Roots website.

Plans for the Northern Roots site were approved in October, with a swimming pond teased for the 160-acre site, which is in the middle of becoming the UK’s largest urban farm.

The visitor and learning centres, which have been co-designed by JDDK Architects and local communities, will include a reception area, shop, cafe, multi-faith prayer and meditation spaces, classrooms, teaching spaces and a bunkhouse, all made using sustainable materials.

The market garden and the site's many growing allotments will supply the cafe and shop with sustainably produced food to reduce the environmental impact of food transportation.

Meanwhile, the events building will contain three meeting room pods for conferences and a forestry depot will be used by maintenance staff to manage the site.

Electricity to the buildings will also be provided sustainably, using ground-mounted solar PV systems which harness the power of the sun's irradiation to generate power.

Of the site's four football pitches, two will be relocated next to Glodwick Cricket Club as the committee found people were being "put off" by the poor quality of the grounds which have often led to games being cancelled in poor weather conditions.

A swimming pond was also hinted, which could sit north of the learning centre to facilitate wild swimming.

The proposed plot already has a natural collection of surface water, but the outline application proposes to deepen it further.