Philip Chandler: Citizen Reporter

On my optimistic days, I believe that I can help to save the honeybees from extinction. On pessimistic days, I see corporate greed destroying everything that is worthwhile about our civilization.

Experience

I have been, and sometimes still am, a writer, magazine editor, web developer, printer, molecatcher, farm hand, signwriter, trainer, salesman, campaigner, gardener, photographer and beekeeper.

Natural beekeeping

My beekeeping site http://www.biobees.com
Top bar beekeeping forum http://www.biobees.com/forum

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Sustaining the Honeybees

Without husbandry, "soil science" too easily ignores the community of creatures that live in and from, that make and are made by, the soil. Similarly, "animal science" without husbandry forgets, almost as a requirement, the sympathy by which we recognize ourselves as fellow creatures of the animals.
--Wendell Berry, 'Renewing Husbandry', Orion Magazine, Sept/Oct 2005
The big lesson of the 20th century was this: the way we treat the natural world has repercussions way beyond the immediately obvious. Our destruction of rainforests and other habitats in the name of 'progress' has triggered irrevocable, cumulative cycles of species loss, soil erosion and climate change that we are only beginning to understand and that will haunt us for generations.
From here, we can look back over the last 150 years and see how commercial beekeeping developed from the Victorian desire to dominate the natural world and subjugate ...read full post

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