Michael Palmer Archives - The Walrus and the Honeybee

Keeping High Standards

It’s that time of the year when it’s time for me to start to get my hives ready for the

In beekeeping, as in life, everybody makes mistakes. Even bees occasionally make them. The hard part is owning up to

Sorry about the audio quality on this clip; somebody once asked if I used a potato as a recording device!

Last week I hopped over the Irish Sea for a short stay in the ancestral homeland. I had volunteered to

Extracts from my interviews with bee farmers about the main threats to their livelihood

Anybody who has been reading my blog for a while will no doubt form the view that I am obsessed