26/06/2025
Ray Baxter, author 👏 👏 👏
Bottom Up Beekeeping
Over the past 18 months, Ray has been doing a research project and writing a book about what beekeepers can learn from the debris that collects at the bottom of a bee hive. It's been fascinating, enlightening, it's raised many more questions to be answered, and issues to be investigated.
It's a really interesting read, a story of exploration, seasonality, and surprise finds, working out how to do research in a home apiary, and following the clues left in the debris. The quantity of microplastics in beehives was certainly a shocker.
You can buy yourself a copy from Northern Bee Books, or online booksellers 😁
Well done Ray, a fantastic achievement 👏
