Trustee Jonathan Powell recounts his visit to the Naliboki Forest in Belarus.

It's been an exciting year - the bees have inspired a whole range of new projects and endeavours, of which we hope to give you a taste.

We would like to tell you about the remarkable people behind the South African honeybee conservation group Ujubee and share with you...

Dear Friends As we are approaching the Ides of March, your beautiful bees will have already gladdened your heart with delightful forays...

A beekeeper looks a swarm in the eye (credit: Tucka Sackville) Dear Readers In celebration of the lengthening days (at least in the...

The Bee Carol Silently on Christmas Eve, the turn of midnight’s key; all the garden locked in ice - a silver frieze - except the winter...

The BBKA View of Bee Health Here are some words from the bee health page of the BBKA’s website followed by an extract from the BBKA’s...

Greetings The leaves have started falling and we send our greetings. Samhain, All Souls, the end of harvest are now behind us and we...

Picture - A 'temple' guard protects the inner sanctum of a wild tree colony (Beech Tree, 5m above the ground on a cold October day -...

Autumn Greetings The summer weather in the UK has been the usual variable mix, with much of the summer being cool. However we have had a...

The native British Black Bee (pictured above in my apiary) was said to be extinct in England by about 1920 due to the ravages of the...

Like Macbeth we are killing our king, our sacred self, for the values of the ego, for our own power and gain, not knowing what this...

We are often asked whether the provision of a hollow in a tree to create a hive for bees to live in harms the tree; the visual image of...

There is too much shallow contact in our lives. I prefer face to face. I want the person I am communicating with so close that I can put...

Since becoming a beekeeper I have come to associate the Ides of March less with the assassination of Julius Caesar, and more with another...

What if there was a completely different approach to beekeeping? Where the beekeeper makes a hive that suits the bees, or they do not...

There is, it seems to us, at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and...

It is winter. The drones do not appear to be here now. Or so we think because we cannot see them. Not only do we deny their existence,...

The style of beekeeping advocated by the Natural Beekeeping Trust is very different from the beekeeping taught by conventional beekeeping...

Has the Bee, that mysterious oneness of love and purpose embodied in the hive, power to help us? To really help us beekeepers to “do...