The most important tip is to be patient. “You have to keep coming back to try to adapt and try something else,” Dervaes says. “Experiment because you are going to learn from it.”
[Jules Dervaes], the former beekeeper and founder of the worldwide Urban Homesteading movement, which encourages urban dwellers to live a low-impact, self-sufficient lifestyle, said he owed his success to the inspiration he received from both the people and the countryside when he lived in Stafford during the 1970s.