Beekeping: Pure and Simple
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Are modern beekeeping methods partly to blame for the poor state of health of our honeybees?
Phil Chandler, author of The Barefoot Beekeeper, suggests that we need to take a fresh - and more holistic - look at the way we work with bees.
If you are interested in learning a more natural approach to beekeeping, this is a good place to start.
Phil Chandler
I discovered beekeeping as a result of my involvement with the anti-GM campaigns of the 1990s. Since then, bees have come under increasing threat from agricultural pesticides and from what many regard as inappropriate treatments with synthetic medications, resulting in widespread 'disappearances'.In 2007, I wrote The Barefoot Beekeeper - my vision of what is wrong and what needs to change in our attitude and approach to bees. Since then, bees and beekeeping have occupied a great deal of my time and energy, none of which I consider wasted.I hope my writing will inspire you to take up 'natural beekeeping'.
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Beekeping - Phil Chandler
BEEKEEPING,
PURE AND SIMPLE
by P J Chandler
Published by P J Chandler at Smashwords.com
Copyright Notice
Copyright © P J Chandler 2010. This book may be copied, printed and freely distributed on condition that no changes are made to the text and no charge is made either for distribution or reproduction.
Contents
Introduction
The Nature of Honeybees
Honeybees and Humans: a Meeting of Species
Natural Beekeeping: A New Approach
The Principles of Natural Beekeeping
INTRODUCTION
My contention is that so-called 'modern' beekeeping – actually dating from the early 19th century – along with a toxic agricultural system – has resulted in the poor state of health we find bees in today.
This document is an outline of my thinking, and an introduction to the notion of 'natural beekeeping', towards which I believe we must now make a move.
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and may not entirely coincide with other people's idea of what constitutes 'natural beekeeping'. I encourage you to make your own choices, and to think for yourself.
THE NATURE OF HONEYBEES
Before we can consider any form of 'bee keeping', we must make some attempt to understand the nature of the creature we will be dealing with.
The traditional approach to this subject invariably begins with pictures of individual bees. There are many books with diagrams and photographs of dissected honeybees, showing how their anatomy is arranged and how a dead bee looks under a microscope. I recommend you take a look through at least one of them so you have an idea how all the bits fit together and what they all do. Dade's Anatomy and Dissection of the Honeybee is probably the best of the bunch.
However, as beekeepers – or potential beekeepers - and as observers of and participants in living nature - we are not so much interested in dead bees as in