First, learn the ropes. Bees are living creatures and their care demands expertise and time. Join your local beekeeping association. Most groups run courses for beginners over the winter, usually ...

After Sherlock Holmes's last client had been shown out of 221b, Baker Street, the great detective retired to a farm on the South Downs. There, he devoted his days not to chess or crosswords, but to ...

CHAP is one of the four UK Agri-Tech Centres of Innovation. We bring together scientists, farmers, advisors, and pioneers to advance crop productivity and yield in the UK and beyond. In South Africa, ...

Are you, or someone you know, one of the many people who have thought of investigating keeping bees, but didn’t know what it ...

Few occupations can be as soothingly pastoral as beekeeping. A handful of hives gently humming with activity at the bottom of the garden. A year of tending and nurturing, with, at the end of it, your ...

A charity founder and Syrian refugee has said beekeeping helps refugees to “break connection with any trauma”. Ali Alzein started Bees & Refugees to save the native British black bee from extinction ...

There was only one witness. A woman out walking near Katie Hayward’s bee education centre on the island of Anglesey saw the bulbous figure of a man, or woman, in a beekeeping suit. The stranger was ...