Category Archives: Publications

Book review: Treatment Free Beekeeping, by David Heaf

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Paul

Rigorous metastudy marshals the evidence and pushes the debate forward Published by Northern Bee Books and IBRA, 2021. £24.95 / US$30, 119 pages, ISBN 978-1-913811-00-6 This is a seminal work – the first comprehensive review of treatment free (TF) beekeeping … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Interviews with Beekeepers by Steve Donohoe

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Paul

I won the book Interviews with Beekeepers by Steve Donohoe in a draw and so, although it is most definitely NOT in tune with natural beekeeping, I decided to read it and thought I would share a review as it … Continue reading →

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Victorian Twitterstorms

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Paul

Wherein may be found some fine forgotten lore alongside various engagingly heated debates of the Victorian era Outrage and apoplexy predate the Internet. Beekeeping has always been a hive of differing opinions, and I’d like to share some examples from … Continue reading →

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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Paul

A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings is a book by Helen Jukes, a member of our group while she lived in Oxford. Autobiographical in nature, it describes a period when she was generally rootless and dissatisfied with how her life … Continue reading →

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Lore of the Honey Bee

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Paul

I’ve been looking at an old bee book, The Lore of the Honey Bee by Tickner Edwardes. There’s almost nothing in it of relevance to us because he was what we’d call a conventional beekeeper, and the book was written … Continue reading →

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The ‘other’ bees: Steven Falk workshop

Posted on May 22, 2017 by pritchard237

A few months ago, the news was filled with stories about intelligent bumblebees. New research showed that they could learn to pull strings and play football. As a ‘bee’ person I was interested, but I had a strange feeling that … Continue reading →

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The Bee Meeting: North Tawton and South Leigh

Posted on April 8, 2017 by pritchard237

In 1962 Sylvia Plath wrote The Bee Meeting, a poem in which she describes her experience of attending a meeting of beekeepers in North Tawton, a village in Devon. Last weekend, fifty-five years later, the Oxfordshire Natural Beekeeping Group gathered … Continue reading →

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