Ordinary beekeepers everywhere are contributing to the huge pressures honeybees are under. Though wellmeaning and hard-working, they are part of the problem that is causing a massive decline in the population of honeybees throughout the world.

In this book Tim Rowe challenges the hives and the hive-management we all take for granted, and offers instead a simpler hive, a new management approach, and a better way of working with our bees.

Tim teaches beekeeping and keeps around one hundred hives in West Cork, Ireland.