The following interview was recorded for the Poor Proles Almanac podcast, with guest Susan Chernak joining us to discuss traditional beekeeping, skep hives, and what it's like to have honeybees as roommates.
This was brilliant and very illuminating, thanks Andy and Susan. I realised this the hard way, a few years of attempting to keep European honeybees here in the Philippines. I always considered myself a pretty poor beekeeper. The amount of hurdles and chemicals you have to douse them with just to keep them "healthy" (obviously not healthy...)
i’m a city-dweller, who doesn’t have a greenthumb whatsoever, but who deeply appreciates the need for so-called “re-wilding” practices. this series on folks who have learned how to foster natural bee colonies has been so fascinating to read and is inspiring me to see if i can start to tend to my underused corner of urban green-space as appropriate bee-foraging space. thank you!
This was brilliant and very illuminating, thanks Andy and Susan. I realised this the hard way, a few years of attempting to keep European honeybees here in the Philippines. I always considered myself a pretty poor beekeeper. The amount of hurdles and chemicals you have to douse them with just to keep them "healthy" (obviously not healthy...)
i’m a city-dweller, who doesn’t have a greenthumb whatsoever, but who deeply appreciates the need for so-called “re-wilding” practices. this series on folks who have learned how to foster natural bee colonies has been so fascinating to read and is inspiring me to see if i can start to tend to my underused corner of urban green-space as appropriate bee-foraging space. thank you!
I’ve learned so much from this presentation. Thank you, both!