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Nov 19, 20153 min read
Rekindling the Romance?
That which is in the process of becoming seems to me to be a different way of connecting with and communing with the bees and through...
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Aug 10, 20151 min read
For the Love of the Bees
A while ago, the trustees of the Natural Beekeeping Trust received an unusual message. A high security penal institution in the Midlands...
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Aug 1, 20153 min read
Bee Breeding and Importation – A Broken Relationship
Together with their environment, bees represent a single sphere of unity, held together by thousands of dependent mutual relationships....
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Aug 1, 20151 min read
Treatment-Free Beekeeping
The approach of the NBKT is based on the premise that, if bees are given the right living conditions and left unstressed by constant...
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Jul 31, 20151 min read
Oilseed Rape Flourishes Without Neonics
The NFU has been badgering the government to change the rules on neonics. Their argument is that crop yields will suffer without them. ...
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Jul 24, 20154 min read
The Sunhive goes to Prison
Eighteen bundles of biodynamic rye straw – cleaned…{tick} Six stands, starters, frames, spray bottles, scalas…{tick} Six fids and...
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Jul 22, 20151 min read
Ode to an Odious Practice
This still is from a video on removing the wings of queen bees, a practice euphemistically termed ‘queen clipping’. Here is a response:...
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Jun 2, 20152 min read
Lest the Darkness Obscure the Light
Life’s but a walking shadow… It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shakespeare, Macbeth The vast...
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Apr 9, 20152 min read
The Yellow Bringer of Death
The air is warm on this pleasant evening in early spring, the warmest day of the year so far. On the far distant horizon is the hill...
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Mar 19, 20159 min read
Hives for Bees: Seeking balance
Choosing a hive can be very confusing for beginners. The many different hives available are presented according to their usefulness to...
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Mar 10, 20154 min read
Beekeeping Backwards: In thanks to Charles Martin Simon
The more I studied beekeeping, the less I knew, until, finally, I knew nothing. But, even though I knew nothing, I still had plenty to...
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Mar 7, 20156 min read
The Call of The Bees
When we hear the call of the bees maybe our hearts will be refreshed and we will find new mornings. In the sweetness of friendship let...
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Feb 26, 201513 min read
The Deeper Message of the Flow Hive
Living with bees is not about hardware, hives and management techniques any more – it is ultimately about the survival of life on earth....
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Feb 16, 20156 min read
The Culmination of Callousness?
Callous: insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic In 1609, Charles Butler, in The Feminine Monarchy, wrote: ‘Of all insects, the bees are...
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Feb 9, 20153 min read
Unbounded
In giving recognition and love to the bee, we are doing no more than honouring our own beholdeness to this wonderful creature. What is a...
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Feb 6, 20155 min read
Flowers for Bees. Growing for Bees. Thank you, World
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of Nature Rachel Carson Are my bees warm enough? This anxious question is...
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Jan 31, 20155 min read
Lessons From the Honeybee
The story starts in a small village in rural England, built from the local warm-coloured stone. As is still common in such villages,...
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Jan 14, 20152 min read
A New Dance, A New Day
At the still point of the turning world …. there the dance is … and there is only the dance. From Burnt Norton, by TS Eliot The queen’s...
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Dec 17, 20145 min read
Bee Mindfulness
“A Bee Hive is one of the most successful ways in which the purpose of life has ever been organised.“ Vernon Klinkenborg Winter has...
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Aug 11, 20143 min read
Layers of Perception
One of our trustees, Margie, recently penned the following description of her experiences in her garden early one August morning. Early...
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