Brother Adam - Video

[nantmoel]

Found this on YouTube - A fascinating insight to the world of bee keeping at Buckfast Abbey and Brother Adams search for the perfect bee.

 

[Thymallus]

IIRC it's split into 4 utube clips that link together. Excellent stuff, but not all will agree with his demise of the native black bee...Loved the African stuff with the bees in hollow tree trunks.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Put the videos on in this thread a while back...http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27554

 

[nantmoel]

Put the videos on in this thread a while back...http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27554

I'm back bee keeping after over a 20 year break - always kept Buckfast bees and looking forward to three new queens next week. Thanks for posting a reply.

 

[Haywards]

Good memories of helping Brother Adam when I was at Buckfast in 1969 for some trainee monking. Helping with the bees was one of my varied tasks when the Abbey had a working farm, pottery, stained glass and of course the Bucky wine. The early "bee" mornings had a compensation - fresh warm bread with honey in the kitchens before dawn. Keeping bees has been a now realised lifelong ambition after being at Buckfast. Oh, not forgetting the many strings. Benedictine habits and a veil were not the best protection when bees from 40 hives were released in a strange place.

 

[B+.]

Is anyone at Buckfast Abbey involved in bee breeding anymore?