When talking about bee hives and raw honey people often think of having to scale a tree to get them. This is often not the case as several professional bee keepers have popped up around the globe and have their hives at ground level. This makes extracting honey from the hive easier, and safer. There is however still the risk of getting stung, but at least you don't have to worry about breaking your neck. Bee hives have been the primary source of raw honey since the dawn of recorded history. Archeologists have found cave paintings of people climbing trees to get honey out of suspended hives in various locations. History does not tell us when we started domesticating bees but we do know that we were actively practicing it around 2400 BC. Historical evidence shows that early bee keepers used logs, pottery, and even baskets for bee's to build their colonies in and raise young. Read the rest of this entry » Mail this post

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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I've picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes...

Public invited to KCHS picnic

Following a short business meeting, Ed Pell will give a program on bee keeping, and especially about re-establishing the honey bees at Lyon Farm. ...   Read the rest of this entry » Mail this post

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If you've been keeping up with my blog posts lately you'll know I've come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I've got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em...

India: The Bhupinder Singh Hooda government adopts innovative ...

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Back with more news for you today. It's amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were...

Make a Bee-line to Marwell Wildlife

MERIDIAN Beekeepers will be at Marwell Wildlife for four days from Thursday to demonstrate bee-keeping techniques. Watch honey bees at close quarters in an ...  Read More... Read the rest of this entry » Mail this post

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Once you start thinking about bee keeping as a money generating business, you need to know some useful information that will help you establish your new business. Bee farms are very interesting projects to work on, they are unlike any other type of animals or birds and also they are considered dangerous because they tend to sting.

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Back with more news for you today. It's amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were...

No queen in the swarm hive

Today we inspected the swarm hive to see how they are doing. It has been a week since they were hived. Lots of bees and very gentle, things were looking good After inspecting several frames, Read the rest of this entry » Mail this post

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Bee keeping without the keeping?

Hi
I recently decided that I want a bee hive in my garden because they're dying and all that.
But I dont want the hassel of maintaining the hive or anything. I just want to buy a hive, put it in my garden and let the bees do their thing.
So i was just wondering if this is possible? Or do they need some maintanence every now and then to keep them going?

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Investing in kenya: Agricultural produce,inputs, horticulture, silviculture, floriculture etc

Investing in the Kenyan agriculture industry could be in the production of flowers, horticulturals, cosmetic or drug inputs like aloe vera,artemisin, vanilla, and cash crops like coffee, tea, sisal among others. Production and exporting of farm inputs to include fertilisers, pesticides and machinery.

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Dying Bees, The Real Cause – (and How To Bring Them Back)

From the perspective of spiritual ecology, some of the suspected causes merely stand in the foreground of the disappearing honeybees - EMF radiation; GM crops; and diseases and pests - while artificial incursions of modern bee-keeping on overall hive ecology are recognized to prevail at the root of the issue.

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