Karl Kehrle
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Karl Kehrle OSB OBE, known as Brother Adam, was a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, and an authority on bee breeding, developer of the Buckfast bee.
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Buckfast Abbey
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Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed b
Karl Kehrle
…sensitive bees responded to." – The Economist, 14 September 1996 Due to health problems Kehrle was sent by his mother at the age of 11 from Germany to Buckfast Abbey, where he joined the order (becoming Brother Adam) and in 1915 started his beekeeping activity. Two years before, a parasite, Acarapis woodi that…
Buckfast Abbey, Exterior I
The nave of the Abbey church is in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles
The abbey by A. R. Quinton, c. 1920, with unfinished tower
Fritillaria meleagris in the grounds of the abbey.