Generally useful person. Science communication and engagement specialist, beekeeper, chicken keeper, vegetable grower, STEM Ambassador and loads more besides.
Originally written for the Vegan Organic Network's "Growing Green International" magazine issue 43. With thanks to Tony Martin for encouraging me to put fingers to keyboard, this piece contains many things I'd wanted to write about for a long time. Honey bees and other pollinators are key to our food chain: without them our diets, countryside and cities would be... Continue Reading →
To celebrate we went back to our roots, a summer school at Aberystwyth University.
It's an April morning of sunshine and showers. But something's not right with the bees.
It's March. And spring is late. We're off to buy kit, listen to talks and meet our fellow beekeepers.
It's February, one of those achingly cold, bright days I love so much. It's time to look after the apiary and feed the bees.
Can bees and chickens sense earthquakes?
Can you read a hive like a book?
