The Surrey Beekeeper: Book Title Competition
James Dearsley AKA The Surrey
Beekeeper tells us about his forthcoming beekeeping
book and the competition to find its title.
As some of you may know I
wrote a little book during my first year as a
beekeeper. It was all about my efforts to get just one
jar of honey and my journey learning all about bees. I
had a lovely time in that first year and wanted to tell
everyone about it. I was very lucky to have been picked
up by the Summersdale Publishing
Company who will be publishing the book next
year. However, we are all deliberating on the final
title and we thought we would have some fun and open
it out to everyone else to make the decision.
Therefore, put your entries in the comments box (the
more entries the merrier!); the team at Summersdale
will then pick their top 5 and we will then put it to
the public vote to see who gets to name the title.
There are some amazing prizes (!)……and I may just chuck
in a jar of next years honey to add to the prize fund.
Click here to enter.
James Dearsley AKA The Surrey
Beekeeper
Bee on the Comb: Kit Williams now at Bees in Art
In 1985 Kit Williams broke open a seal upon the mahogany bee-box (see title page) to reveal the title of his book. Readers were given one year after publishing to solve the book’s hidden clues and win the golden queen bee.
Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About Pollinators In Peril
Beekeeping in Britain by
Andrew
Tyzack
Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About
Pollinators In Peril
Andrew
Tyzack and Debbie
Grice Found
Special Gallery To Celebrate Role Of Bees In Our
Lives
Written By Todd Wilkinson
As artists
who together operate The Land Gallery
in England in East
Yorkshire, they decided to do something about it:
Put out a call to other artists and open a virtual
gallery with procceds from the sale of artwork going
to the cause of pollinator conservation. Tyzack has
a particular insight into the problem, which in many
parts of the globe has manifested itself as Colony
Collapse Disorder. Outbreaks of CCD have been blamed
on a virulent combination of mites and a fungus
killing honey bees with weakened immune systems
potentially caused by exposure to pesticides. Loss
of habitat also is taking a serious toll on wild
bees, with several species in the U.S. now
imperiled.
Tyzack himself is a third-generation beekeeper, a
practitioner of the apiary arts, husbanding his
domestic honey hives to make sweet honey.
More and more, artists are stepping forward to aid in
the cause of conservation. This effort on behalf of
pollinators is similar to one led by biologist Kerry
Kriger who founded Save The Frogs and has sponsored an
art contest that is open to painters of all ages.
Bees in Art celebrates Hymenoptera, the order of insect
that encompasses honey bees, bumblebees and related
species. He said that he and Grice welcome artists in
North America to contact him if they are interested in
supporting bee conservation by making works available
for sale...
For complete article please visit The Wildlife Art
Journal.