Interviews with Beekeepers, Donohoe

£28.95

Interviews with Beekeepers

Name: Interviews with Beekeepers, Donohoe
Brand: NORTHERN BEE BOOKS
SKU: 0390
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Steve Donohoe

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Zuntold Publishing (1st ed. 2020)

Softback / 358 Pages

ISBN 978-191620-425-6

A rare insight into the lives of commercial beekeepers, warts and all, Interviews With Beekeepers is gold dust to anyone who wants to know more about keeping bees.

For author Steve Donohoe, beekeeping was a form of therapy – an escape from the stresses of corporate life to something natural and healing. Steve decided to write the book that he wanted to read but couldn’t find anywhere. Seeking out some of the most successful beekeepers in the world, Steve spent time with them, interviewed and got to know them. This book is a collection of the wisdom, experiences, opinions and stories of these legends of beekeeping.

• Why this book is different

Murray McGregor (Coupar Angus, Scotland)
1. Introduction to Murray
2. Talking with Jolanta and Murray
3. Queen rearing
4. Murray's story
5. Advice on becoming commercial
6. Revenue splits
7. Worst years and best years
8. Breeding programme
9. Current issues and controversy in beekeeping
10. Insulation and ventilation
11. Buy them in or grow your own queens?
12. Neonicotinoids
13. Disease and pest management
14. Swarm control
15. On selecting queens
16. Finding apiary sites
17. Things that matter or things that are changing
18. Working with others ... and people I admire now
19. Things that rile me
20. Plans for the future
21. Beekeeping philosophy and innovations in design or approach
22. That issue with the antibiotics
23. Afterword
Michael Palmer (Vermont, USA)
1. Introduction to Mike and re-queening nucs
2. Talking with Mike
3. Good years and bad years
4. Before beekeeping
5. Mentors
6. On going commercial
7. Operations and revenue streams
8. Natural beekeeping
9. Insulation and ventilation
10. Neonicotinoids
11. Beekeeping in cities
12. Queen breeding
13. Hobby beekeepers
14. Introducing queens
15. On making mistakes and meeting challenges
16. Legends from the beekeeping world
17. Thoughts on buying package bees
18. Slipping standards
19. Notes and diagrams on Mike's sustainable beekeeping method
Ray Olivarez (Orlando, California, USA)
1. Introduction to Ray
2. Talking with Ray
3. Operations and the business of bee-farming
4. How it all began
5. How we grew the business
6. Mentors
7. Advice on becoming commercial and challenges involved
8. On queen rearing and instrumental insemination
9. Supporting hobby beekeepers
10. Mite bombs
11. Revenue splits
12. Finding the apiaries and breeding queens for performance
13. Methods used for queen rearing
14. On being a family business
15. Brexit, equality and developing the labour force
16. Hard times and disasters
17. Being a good beekeeper - some tips on the craft
18. Inventions and brilliant ideas
19. Controversy - imports and environmental concerns
20. Ventilation and insulation
21. Varroa treatments
22. On growing the business and looking after the bees
23. Predictions
24. Future plans
Peter Little (Exmore, UK)
1. Introduction to Peter
2. Talking with Peter
3. As we began ...
4. Business and operations
5. On breeding queens and artificial insemination
6. "There's a total difference between being a queen producer and a queen breeder."
7. Organisation and operations
8. How did you start?
9. Brother Adam's mating station and black bees
10. Neonicotinoids and pesticides
11. Mentors
12. Queen grafting
13. All about swarm control
14. Stopping the wax moth
15. Good years, bad years
16. Honey production and coping with robbing
17. Advice for those who want to become commercial
18. Those who have inspired me
19. Buckfast Abbey and Brother Adam
20. Which bees are 'best'?
21. How can your average bee keeper improve his or her stock?
22. How do the quad boxes work?
23. 'Wood or poly hives?
24. The cycle of beekeeping
25. Selling honey
26. Bee diseases and how things have changed
27. Professor David Evan's work on Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus
28. Personal and political bee stuff
29. Treating bees for varroa
30. Educating yourself on beekeeping
31. To checkerboard or not to checkerboard?
32. Providing space and swarm prevention
33. Types of bee hives
34. Future Plans
Peter Bray (Leeston, New Zealand)
1. Introduction to Peter
2. Talking with Peter
3. How the company began
4. Building the laboratory
5. Economics and the economy
6. Moving from bee-keeping to research
7. The Manuka phenomenon
8. Rise of the Leptospermums
9. Good years and bad years
10. Mentors
11. My working week
12. Revenue streams and the world market
13. Varroa
14. Concerns and challenges for beekeepers (and the World)
15. Types of bees
16. Working with beekeepers
17. Predictions for the future and for Airborne Honey
18. Things that rile me
19. Legacy
20. Inventions and adaptations
21. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
22. Honey production
23. Prospects for young people wanting to become a beekeeper
24. Afterword on Manuka
Richard Noel (Brittany, France)
1. Introduction to Richard
2. Talking with Richard
3. On good and bad years and becoming commercial
4. Why I became a beekeeper
5. How do you set up a swarm trap?
6. Mentors
7. Working hours and revenues
8. On finding apiaries
9. On natural beekeeping and other controversial issues
10. On importing queens
11. The beekeeping year
12. Swarm control
13. Selecting queens
14. On how I rear queens
15. What have I learned?
16. The future of beekeeping
17. Heroes of beekeeping and things that irritate me
18. Inventions and modifications
19. The Asian hornet
Randy Oliver (California, USA)
1. Introduction to Randy
2. Talking with Randy
3. Who is Randy Oliver?
4. A family business
5. Learning from mistakes and high levels of rain
6. On being a scientist
7. Dealing with bears and growing cannabis
8. Running trials to solve the three biggest challenges facing bees and their keepers
9. Research and understanding Varroa
10. A bit about Citrus Greening Disease
11. Future proofing - building a Varroa resistant strain
12. Personal story - how it all began
13. ScientificBeekeeping.com
14. Persuading beekeepers to breed varroa resistant bees
15. Colony Collapse Disorder
16. Thoughts on Manuka honey
17. Revenue streams
18. Dealing with swarming
19. Advice on going commericial
20. The beekeeping year
21. Increased CO2 and the impact on the nutritional needs of bees
22. Mistakes I have made
23. Finding Apiaries and Global Warming
24. Queen breeding
25. Afterword
David Kemp (Nottinghamshire, UK)
1. Introduction to David
2. Talking with David
3. How have things changed?
4. Buckfast Abbey
5. Brother Adam's queen rearing exploits
6. Keeping the queens alive and work with Dr Butler
7. Artificial insemination and Brother Adam
8. Developing disease resistant bees
9. How I started at Buckfast Abbey
10. The beekeeping year - Winter
11. Equalising colonies
12. Queen rearing - planning, preparation and crafty exporting
13. My childhood and how I became interested in bees
14. FROW a treatment for Acarine
15. Breeding varroa resistant bees
16. Revenue streams at Buckfast Abbey
17. Insulation and ventilation
18. After Buckfast Abbey
19. How did Brother Adam raise queens?
20. Starving bees!
21. How to introduce queens
22. Selecting apiary sites
23. Braula mites
24. Swarm prevention
25. Breeding for variety not purity
26. Worst times as a bee inspector
27. What is the biggest threat to bees?
28. What would I put right if I could?
29. Favourite books
30. Black bees
31. Different sorts of hives
32. Plans for the future
33. So, what's it all about?
34. Good years and bad years
35. Moving bees
36. Best advice for finding queens
37. Best advice for finding queens Respect for bees

• Acknowledgements

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