December 1955 - July 2021

Peter Little of Exmoor Bees and Beehives, a notable beekeeper,  moved on to the great apiary in the sky on 25th of July. He bred Buckfast Bees and sometimes used the old isolated mating station on Dartmoor that Brother Adam set up. He had many items of historical importance from the Buckfast heyday and handed some of those over to institutions he trusted. Peter was a very successful rearer of Queens and he was also involved in setting up the native Black Bee reserve on the Rame Peninsula. Read his full obit here