ln the development of my apiary, I have I been strongly influenced by a Japanese I man named Masanobu Fukuoka. He wrote two beautiful and important books called The One Straw Revolution atd The Natural Way of Farming.

To most of us who were keeping bees twenty and thirty years ago—as either a hobby or a livelihood- two of the chief attractions were the opportunity to work closely with the world of nature, and the seemingly miraculous qualities of the bees themselves. Only slightly less miraculous were the bee products themselves.