Aging Is Good For The Ego
Rainbow over the Kyles of Bute I used to think that 60 yrs is quite old, but now that 2023 has arrived – the year in which I will have been alive for six decades (hopefully) – I’m thinking that…
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.
Feeling Helpless About Surging Chronic Virus
Frightening Bee Virus Is Aptly Named A bee infected with CBPV (crown copyright - National Bee Unit) Recent Reader Poll Thank you to those kind readers who responded to my poll about the greatest challenges facing you as beekeepers. The…
Achieve More For Less
Barrels of honey at Olivarez Honey Bees, Orland, California Beekeepers invest a considerable amount of money in their equipment. Hives, frames, foundation, bee suits, smokers, extractors, warming cabinets, mating nucs and so on, ad nauseam, all add up to a…
Walrus on Video
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
Management Guru Peter F Drucker 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…
Pragmatism or Xenophobia?
Frame of Sealed Brood 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…
7 Lessons from Beekeepers
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…