Guest Blog Introduction. I enjoy coincidences and serendipitous moments a lot; don’t you? The longer I’m around the more I…
We reach the end of April and the weather is still too cold for opening the hives for regular colony…
You’ve decided to keep honey bees, and you’re not allergic to their stings, as far as you know. Congratulations on…
I was very pleased to be invited by Princeton University Press to review this new book on insects by Eric…
It’s officially spring today on April 1st; yippee! My five-years-on-one-page nature journal announces this, and the garden birds believe it…
The glorious sweet scent of heather honey greets me on opening our front door now. I’ve harvested the last honey…
Warm sunny days in early September are good news. The Victoria plums in the back garden are the best and…
Harvesting Oil Seed Rape Crop. Three weeks of gloriously warm and sunny weather ended abruptly last Tuesday. The temperature almost…
A Difficult Decision. I’ve been rescuing animals since my childhood on the farm and I hate it when they don’t…
Better Weather. I’m writing on another gloriously sunny day on the 114th day of the most peculiar year in our…