Meredith May is the author of The Honey Bus , a bestselling memoir about her beekeeping childhood with her grandfather in Big Sur, California, and a children's book, My Hive , among other books. She is a fifth-generation beekeeper and a former award-winning reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle . Claire Jones has been beekeeping in her Maryland meadow for more than twenty-five years and writes about beekeeping and gardening on her blog, The Garden Diaries . She is an award-winning garden designer, garden communicator, and organizer of garden-centric trips around the world. Anne Rowberry is president of the British Beekeepers Association and lectures on bees in the UK and internationally. She is a Master Beekeeper and has been beekeeping for close to two decades. Margaret Murdin, a former president of the British Beekeepers Association, has been beekeeping for more than twenty years and recently downsized her bee colonies from more than forty to six. A winner of the prestigious Wax Chandlers' Award, she is a Master Beekeeper and earned the National Diploma in Beekeeping.