Brother Adam (–1996)

Written in 1974 by Brother Adam, with a few b&w photos, the book shows how he continually improved the way he kept the bees and how he selected and bred the best queens at Buckfast Abbey to provide the desired traits in the colonies. This copy signed by Br Adam and gifted to EBKA Braintree by Writtle Agricultural College in 2014.

Brother Adam's theory and practice in improving the characteristics of the Buckfast bees. A specialist book explaining his 70 years of cross breeding and improving the traits of the bees at Buckfast Monastery.

DVD subtitled Brother Adam and the Buckfast Superbee. DVD is mostly a biography of the famous Brother Adam who bred bees at Buckfast Abbey for 70 years and died in 1996. Chapters on his visits to Germany and other countries, searching for bees with desirable qualities. Includes an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro searching for a pure black bee. DVD running time 90 mins in 7 chapters.

"This enchanting story of Brother Adam, a Benedictine monk who spent a lifetime trying to breed the perfect honeybee. From his monastic cell at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, Brother Adam directed an incredible global enterprise. He Scoured Europe, the Middle East and Africa in search of genetic material from which, over 70 years, he bred his Buckfast superbee, culminating in an extraordinary expedition- undertaken in his 90th year - to hunt the elusive black bee of Kilimanjaro." - from show more the DVD jacket blurb. show less