BEE THE CHANGE

Back in March 2018, I picked up the phone to a man going by the name of ‘Daniel Buzzo’ who had a problem with some bees. This had to be a joke I thought. His name really was Daniel Buzzo, and he really did have a problem with some bees – he had a colony of honeybees li...

Over the last 50 years in the UK, we have lost over half of our honeybee population and half of our wildlife. People have never been so disconnected from nature, with the rise of conditions known as Nature Deficit Disorder, and mental health problems are sky-high.  The...

 Bumblebee on sunflower

Well, beekeeping here is very, very worrying. Not only are you told to treat your bees with chemicals, IT’S THE LAW! Can you believe it? If you refuse to suffocate your bees with toxic chemicals, you can face huge fines.

We met up with a ‘rogue’ n...

Hello and welcome to my first ever bee-blog! I hope to share some of the wisdom gleaned from our travels meeting up with European beekeepers and bee conservation projects, in the hope of finding new ways to live more sustainably with our pollinators. This research trip...