Bee-Skep Making
Heritage, folklore and how to make and use your own skeps
$58.37
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A 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 for their healt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789943306 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1789943302 |
| Author: | Chris Park |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Herbert Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 860g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 218mm x 282mm |
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Critics Review
This book is truly inspiring. It delves into the essential role bees have played throughout history and explores how we can create natural habitats for them while moving away from more industrialised approaches to beekeeping. - Wolfgang Buttress, Artist
Well-written and skilfully crafted… [Chris Park] has created a fascinating book that not only guides the reader concisely through skep making, beekeeping, honey extraction, wax cleaning and mead making, but gives detailed accounts of the history and traditions of this almost lost art. * Ann Chilcott, The Beelistener *
Chris Park
Chris Park is the world’s leading expert on bee skeps and teaches skep-making for the British Beekeeping Association, the National Honey Show and special interest groups. He is also a skep-beekeeper, apitherapist and writer with a wider interest in arts and crafts, ancient technologies, eco-building and folk music.
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