contents
cultivation
one
Decline and disorder
Precedents
A question of scale
Hives at the bottom of the garden
Pollination needs
A poisoning
Insects as pests
Chemical warfare
The “weird world” of systemics
Edwin Clark, Hobbyist beekeeper, Lincolnshire, UK
Mike Thurlow, Commercial beekeeper, Orchid Apiaries, Norfolk, UK
two
Protest
Toxic limits
Dust drift
The cheap-fix
Pressure from all sides: parasites, viruses and pesticides
Proof
Lobbying and political fallout
The suspension
Armin Trenkel, Agricultural scientist, Landwirtschaftliches Technologiezentrum
(Agricultural Technology Centre), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Hemma Köglberger, Small-scale beekeeper and agricultural scientist,
Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
(Agency for Health and Food Security), Lower Austria, Austria
adaptation
three
Domestic-feral
Swarming and proliferation
Taking control: a docile and productive bee
A remote site
Exporting a loss of distinction
Shipped in en-mass
The hybrid pool
Losing control: genetic introgression
Responsibility
Local rearing, the world over
Bee-rearing station, Upper Carniola, Slovenia
Aleš Gregorc, Professor and researcher of honeybee rearing,
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
four
Far from cultivation
A place to thrive
Climate and change
A place to survive
Co-adaptation
Choice intervention
A considerate future
Helen Bergqvist, Regional beekeeping expert, Lapland, Sweden
conservation
five
Concrete honey
Dead nature and the life indicator
Up-close and hands-on
Bees as community
Quantifying forage
Connecting habitat
Worth, value and use
Conserving a farmed creature
All beekeepers
Olivier Darné, Artist beekeeper, Parti Poétique, St. Denis, Paris, France
Caroline Birchall, Small-scale beekeeper, ecologist and Bee Collective founder, London, UK
epilogue
Sylejman & Ayni Zogiani, Commercial beekeepers, Fushë Kosovë, Kosovo
Tiberiu & Mihaela Chirãnescu, Migratory beekeepers, Dobruja, Romania
BUY NOW
onlineUK US DE IT
through Northern Bee Books
or order at your local bookstore
ISBN 978-1-9161940-1-4