About me

I have kept bees for twenty years, in hives I built myself, in a small apiary on a hillside. I started with one borrowed hive and a lot of mistakes. I learned most of what I know by opening hives slowly, writing down what I saw and asking older beekeepers why.

Now I teach it. The videos are filmed at the apiary, with a smoker, a hive tool and a veil, in plain words. What I sell are the things I wished I had when I started: workbooks that take you through a year, record sheets to print and fill in, hive plans you can build from, and two video courses, one for keeping your first hive and one for building it. I do not sell bees or hives. I teach you to look after your own.