Chris Park is a maker of skeps – straw or wicker beehives. ‘Skep just means a basket for bees,’ he says. ‘They’ve been around since the Mesolithic era – it’s an old-style beehive that you might see on the side of a bottle of mead… We’re used to living in a world where we are flitting around all the time. Our work is scattered, our families are scattered, our recreation is scattered sometimes around the globe. A skep is a circle – it’s about bringing everything home. The materials are from home, bees are from home. It’s from a time when bigger families and communities would notice a swarm more easily’