Profile of David Cramp the Editor of Apis-UK
I started
beekeeping about 12 years ago whilst still serving in the RAF at Waddington
in Lincolnshire, with two WBC hives in the married quarter garden.
Membership of the Lincoln branch of the BBKA provided me with my essential
basic instruction and I then went on that excellent beekeeping course
then run by Alan Campion at the local agricultural college. (He is the
author of 'Bees at the bottom of your Garden' which was my beekeeping
bible. I'm glad to see that it has now been republished). After finishing
my service I undertook a years post graduate diploma in beekeeping at
the Bee Research Unit, University of Wales in Cardiff, under Professor
Robert Pickard and Dr Robert Paxton and ended it with a thesis on Drone
Congregation Areas. (A most interesting and mysterious subject).
The course gave me a great interest in the science of beekeeping which
I still retain today. I then left the UK for remote Spain and began a
small beekeeping business; selling honey; giving courses to groups and
individuals and vastly increasing my knowledge of the practical side of
apiculture. I was also fortunate enough to be able to write for the UK,
US and Spanish bee press and various smallholding magazines, and in 1999
wrote 'The Beekeepers Field Guide'.
I now live with my wife and two young daughters (the 7 year old being
adept at identifying and following swarms) on a finca in the province
of Huelva in Andalucia where we keep bees, and attempt to produce olives,
cork and honey. For several years now I have been the representative for
Spain of that most worthy organisation, IBRA, and now have the pleasurable
but daunting task of editing this new venture on the web.
The Editor of Apis-UK David Cramp E-mail
bassdrum1999@yahoo.com
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