Category: Learning From the Best

We can save a lifetime of pain by learning from the best in our chosen field. One reason for the success of humanity is our ability to pass on knowledge to others. Of course, there is a world of difference between knowing the theory and being able to put it into practice.

Walrus on Video

By Walrus on 17th April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Video clips showing how to use Randy Oliver’s varroa model and making hive floors. If a picture is worth 1000 words, what about a video?

If Peter Drucker kept Bees

By Walrus on 29th December 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Peter Drucker The legendary management consultant, Peter Drucker, may well have kept bees; I don’t know. He certainly made a vast contribution to twentieth-century management theory, and I’m sure his influence will stretch far into the current century too. He is well known for, amongst other things, these […]

Modelling Success

By Walrus on 19th September 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

Obsessions If you asked somebody that knows me well to describe me, they would probably mention my obsessions. I’ve had a few over the years. The biggest one, the one that would have killed me if I hadn’t broken it, was alcohol. Currently, the main one is honey […]

Pragmatism or Xenophobia?

By Walrus on 20th August 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Beekeeping is Local Maybe I am naive or just positive and optimistic, but I’m sure that to many people I have some dangerously liberal ideas. For a start, I deliberately travelled all over the place to meet experienced bee farmers to see what I could learn. Then I […]

7 Lessons from Beekeepers

By Walrus on 14th October 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

I have been lucky enough to meet, interview, hang out with and in some cases work with people who have kept bees for most of their lives, and who are at the top of their game. Surely even I, a humble walrus, can do nothing but benefit from […]