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- Jan 13, 2017
- 4 min
Beekeepers, Bees and the Bien
A beekeeper looks a swarm in the eye (credit: Tucka Sackville) Dear Readers In celebration of the lengthening days (at least in the...
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- Dec 15, 2016
- 4 min
Season's Greetings 2016
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...
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- Nov 23, 2016
- 3 min
High Time to Stop Managing the Bees
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...
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- Nov 5, 2016
- 5 min
November Newsletter 2016
Greetings The leaves have started falling and we send our greetings. Samhain, All Souls, the end of harvest are now behind us and we...
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- Oct 16, 2016
- 2 min
Learning from Wild Bees and Tree Beekeeping
Picture - A 'temple' guard protects the inner sanctum of a wild tree colony (Beech Tree, 5m above the ground on a cold October day -...
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- Sep 21, 2016
- 2 min
Newsletter September 2016
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...
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- Sep 14, 2016
- 4 min
Saving Local Bees: An Appeal to Landowners
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...
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- Jun 11, 2016
- 4 min
Hardening of the Heart - the task of the modern beekeeper
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...
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- May 31, 2016
- 4 min
What tree beekeeping means to trees (and bees)
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...
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- Apr 21, 2016
- 3 min
Bees and Us: the World We Share
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...
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- Mar 17, 2016
- 2 min
Beware the Ides of March
Since becoming a beekeeper I have come to associate the Ides of March less with the assassination of Julius Caesar, and more with another...
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- Mar 9, 2016
- 3 min
Learning from Wild Bees and Tree Beekeeping
What if there was a completely different approach to beekeeping? Where the beekeeper makes a hive that suits the bees, or they do not...
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- Jan 24, 2016
- 4 min
When a Spirit of True Enquiry Infuses our Beekeeping
There is, it seems to us, at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and...
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- Jan 5, 2016
- 3 min
That our Love of the Unseen may be Kindled
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,...
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- Jan 4, 2016
- 1 min
Bee-Centred vs Conventional Beekeeping
The style of beekeeping advocated by the Natural Beekeeping Trust is very different from the beekeeping taught by conventional beekeeping...
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- Nov 20, 2015
- 2 min
Creative Forces
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...
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- Nov 19, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 1 min
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, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 1 min
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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