ATTENTION: I concluded my beekeeping journey in August 2013. For various reasons, I stopped blogging shortly after arriving in India and never resumed.

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- Dillon Blankenship, 20 February, 2018.

07 August, 2012

Buckfast Abbey and Haints

A number of great things are happening.

1. I am camping right across the road from this place:  http://www.haunted-britain.com/buckfastleigh_church.htm

2. I had a Cornish Pasty yesterday and plan to try Cream Tea today.

3. Phil Chandler gave me a grand tour of some local apiculture and introduced me to to beekeepers at Buckfast Abbey.

4. I am reading In Search of the Best Strains of Bees by Brother Adam. He did a grand exploration of the Mediterranan beekeeping world and it is very interesting to read his commentary on the different regions and subspecies. I am hesitant to accept some of his thoughts, though. I wish Brother Adam was around today to lend his perspective on the problems we are experiencing now...

I am thinking about doing a series of posts describing the many different types of hives I have witnessed already (Warre, Horizontal Top Bar, British National, Dadant, and Brother Adam's modified Dadants - which are massive). It will largely depend on my access to computers...

I leave on a train to Sussex and the Natural Beekeeping Conference from Exeter on Friday.
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