Kirk Webster at the Mini Isley

November 13th at 6pm

Come to the Mini Ilsley at 30 Main Street in Middlebury to listen to Vermont beekeeper Kirk Webster talk about his book, Many Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey Bees.

Many Best Kept Secrets is the story of local beekeeper Kirk Webster's lifetime lived in close association with honey bees and the land that sustained them. It is a book about bees, yes-but more deeply, it's about mentorship, memory, discovery, loss, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. It follows a trajectory from suburban alienation to rural immersion; from stumbling first steps on a school farm to a resilient apiary built with homemade tools and hard-won knowledge. It's also a clear-eyed account of how small-scale, nature-oriented farming and beekeeping can succeed-when the work is guided by observation, patience, humility, and respect for systems older and wiser than ourselves. Kirk Webster, a beekeeper with 50 years experience tending Addison County's pollinators, was profiled in Bill McKibben's unforgettable memoir, Oil and Honey, his account of two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight: the local and the global.

Entrance is free.