A Perthshire Beekeeper: Athole Kirkwood's beekeeping diary, edited by Fiona Mackenzie Bee Products – Richard Jones (Director of

– Richard Jones (Director of IBRA 1996 - 2010) October 2013

When Dr Lesley Goodman finally lost her fight against lung cancer in 1998

The book focuses on the three most urgent problems: the standardization and simplification of landscapes through monocultures

The importance of pollinator species to man’s survival and the functioning of the world’s ecosystems is recognised

but also because of the increasing realisation that honey bees are extremely valuable to nature and humanity

A Perthshire Beekeeper: Athole Kirkwood's beekeeping diary, edited by Fiona Mackenzie Bee Products – Richard Jones (Director of"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,