A Perthshire Beekeeper: Athole Kirkwood's beekeeping diary, edited by Fiona Mackenzie International and up to the present

and up to the present day-with beautiful illustrations for every period

Peter Molan

In her travels Moller encounters a trigger-happy Californian bee keeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics

or of honey that granulates quickly

A Perthshire Beekeeper: Athole Kirkwood's beekeeping diary, edited by Fiona Mackenzie International and up to the present"Athole Kirkwood was one of the great figures of Scottish beekeeping, and deserves to rank alongside some of the finest names in British beekeeping over the past century, including R. O. B. Manley, Brother Adam, A. W. Gale of Marlborough, and E. W. D. Madoc of Norfolk. This book, compiled by his daughter from his diaries and records, charts his beekeeping life from the mid 1940s until his death in 2019. It records both his successes and setbacks,