In Issue 38

Dear friends

Opening the post Bee for Development is always a great job. Every day brings the interest of letters from beekeepers working in remote places, as well as those near to home. From our new readers, from our frequent correspondents, and always, always more enquiries about bees and how to get started in beekeeping.

Sometimes it is a picture which stimulates enquirers. For example, the cover picture on the last edition, showing nice honeycomb from top-bar hive, seemed to catch the eye of many, who have written for more information on beekeeping.

People living in the poorest countries cannot pay us for the information they need. Our policy is to help if we can: often this simply involves sending past editions of this journal.

Bees for Development's main source of income is subscriptions from this journal. Depending on how you look at it, we are in the happy, or unhappy, situation of having far more readers than we have subscribers!

We need more subscribers to be able to continue with this work making beekeeping better known to people who need it most. Please help us to increase our number of subscriptions: consider sponsoring one or more extra subscriptions, or encourage your friends to broaden their horizons by signing up. There is always subscription form printed in our book list, Books to Buy.

Nicola Bradbear

Bees for Development

1 Agincourt Street, Monmouth NP25 3DZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1600 714848 info@beesfordevelopment.org www.beesfordevelopment.o