Making money, Honey
What's my plan? Well, since you ask, I shall enlighten you. I am not a commercial beekeeper. The main reason for me keeping bees is that I enjoy getting out of the city into rural Cheshire so that I can…
Month: November 2018
Bee a Botanist!
This beekeeping malarky is not a simple matter of putting bees in a box and leaving them alone; far from it. A lot of work and cost, in both time and money, goes into ensuring that our bees are booming…
Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics
I recently read a ludicrous article on BBC News, "Can Listening to Bees help save them - and us?" which continues the campaign of mis-information about honey bees. I used to think that this type of report, of which there…
Happy to be a Brit
As I write this, the bells of Big Ben are chiming across London Town as part of the Remembrance Day commemoration, which is particularly poignant this year as it was precisely 100 years ago that the World War One hostilities…
What’s Your Plan? (You need one)
I am back from my Californian adventure, which involved spending time with Ray Olivarez of Olivarez Honey Bees and Randy Oliver who runs the popular scientific beekeeping website and writes in the American Bee Journal. I learned a lot and…