Bee-Skep Making: Heritage, folklore and how to make and use your own skeps by Chris Park Merlin Sheldrake ' - Blindboy Boatclub

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of necessity

and vital allies in nature’s creative cycles

11mm diameter

is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland

Bee-Skep Making: Heritage, folklore and how to make and use your own skeps by Chris Park Merlin Sheldrake ' - Blindboy BoatclubA beekeeper's guide to straw skep building, including sections on bee history and mythology, practical skep beekeeping, and making honey and wax products. Dating back to ancient times, the bee skep is essentially an upturned lipwork basket with a small bee entrance near the base. Offering a less intensive industrialised environment than the box hives widely used today, skeps are friendlier to the bees' way of working and properly used can be better