The Barefoot Beekeeper

2012 UK Natural Beekeeping Conference Panel Discussion

The Future of Beekeeping

2012 Natural Beekeeping Conference

The Importance of Drones

Permaculture and Bees in Ireland

Irish natural beekeeping and a permaculture masterclass

What can we learn from bees? Talk at Trill Farm, Dorset May 11 2012

Back after a too-long absence! I had hoped to be ...

Back after a too-long absence!  I had hoped to be able to produce a recording every month, but somehow life got in the way.  Here's the first podcast for this year a talk recorded at Trill Farm, Dorset (south of England, a little left of...

Real bugs as keyrings: the trivialization of life

I was looking around the Salago shop in Totnes a ...

I was looking around the Salago shop in Totnes a couple of days ago and discovered that they were selling real bugs - including spiders, scorpions, beetles, butterflies and crabs - embedded in plastic as keyrings and other trinkets. The only marking...

Interview with Amanda Williams: Bee Grooming, Nosema and Bee-Friendly Zones

Termites are not so different to bees in many ways: ...

Termites are not so different to bees in many ways: both are social insects that live in large colonies and have several castes. Both use grooming as a first-line defence against potentially damaging diseases.  Bayer sells a pestide called...

Sound picture of the 2011 Natural Beekeeping Conference

voices and music from the first UK Natural Beekeeping Conference

Interview with David Heaf at the First UK Natural Beekeeping Conference 2011

David Heaf is well known as the translator - together ...

David Heaf is well known as the translator - together with his wife, Patricia - of the Abbé Warré's book about 'The People's Hive' into English. He gave the keynote speech at the First UK Natural Beekeeping Conference, which was warmly...

Italian beekeepers' hunger strike over pesticides

now there is proof that neonicotinoids are killing bees

World exclusive: Lara Conley - The Bee Song

and some unrehearsed chat from Phil