Learning From Bees, a philosophy of natural beekeeping

The author's first book. The Barefoot Beekeeper, set out a challenge to the world of conventional beekeeping and offered an alternative paradigm. It soon became apparent that other people had been thinking along similar lines, and when bees were headlined month after month in the national press, following the outbreak of so-called 'colony collapse disorder' in the USA, many more people became interested in bees and what became known as the 'natural beekeeping' movement began to emerge. Learning From Bees is a collection of short essays on bees and beekeeping, many of which are published here for the first time.