Hello dear beekeepers! I’ve been reworking my old website. not my blogs. The English part became ready enough to be published and I launched it on http://elgon.es There are quite some new material there. In the article “Resistance breeding” some of
Listen to your bees
Brother Adam often said that you should listen to our bees to be able to understand them and learn better how to manage them. Peter Donovan, who worked for him, expressed that when you went through a hive you read
Peter Donovan has moved on
Peter Donovan was the longterm, faithful and skilled coworker with Brother Adam at Buckfast Abbey in southwest of England. He came to the abbey 1939 at the age of 12 when the war started and helped Brother Adam in his
Buckfast breeding 1
This is a too long story to be told in one post here. But I have to start somewhere. I first visited Brother Adam and Buckfast Abbey in 1983. I was allowed to look into his pedigrees for his bees