About Boomtreebees

After finishing my Degree in Forestry and Landscape management in Velp, NL I came to Ireland in 2001 where I became a forestry contractor based in Galway. Throughout these contracting years I became increasingly aware that things needed to change. Habitats and biodiversity were diminishing because of land use change intensification in the agricultural sector. To get a better understanding I changed career and went into organic vegetable/ fruit farming. Here it became clear to me how bad the situation was. Trying to improve the pollination of the crops I started a beekeeping course to understand the life cycle of honeybees and learn how to keep them sustainably which led me to become a beekeeper. It soon became apparent that the conventional bee hives the bees were in weren't ideal for the bees to live a healthy life. I began to research and found that there were more natural ways of beekeeping which in turn led me to explore how bees live in the wild. Given the increasing loss of wild habitats I looked at ways to mimic their natural nesting sites in cavities in trees.