Tristram Stuart

Tristram Stuart is the author of The Bloodless Revolution and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. He founded Feeding the 5000, a global campaign against food waste. He lives in London.

Diary: Beekeeping

Tristram Stuart, 24 October 2013

The beehives buzzing quietly in the boot, I drove up the motorway. The bees thrived in the Ashdown Forest in late summer. Transplanted to East London, perhaps they would feel hemmed in by tarmac and buildings. But the next morning when I opened the hives, it took them no time to find the lime trees on London Fields and they filled the frames with a clear, sharp-tasting liquor. Later in the...

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