Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Bee keeping

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To help bees survive the onslaught of chemicals and disease that has decimated populations and diminished plant pollination. Learn the basic skills to keep bees.

Bees are a key part of ecosystems world wide and a great many plants rely on them for pollination and their reproduction and survival. over recent years disease and colony collapse have seen a dramatic and very alarming reduction in bee numbers. Certain pesticides are known to poison bees and other changes to our countryside such as monoculture also make life a challenge for them, weakening their immune systems. Keeping bees quite apart from being an end in itself with the pleasure of harvesting honey also supports your local ecosystem.

However it is a skilled undertaking and anyone interested should enroll on a course or join their local bee keeping association. There are volumes of information on the internet but the links below provide a starter.

• Seeds, Food & Soil.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOPHjK6LNE&index=4&list=PL72BAD98F137224D2
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping
• https://www.bbka.org.uk/
• http://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/
• http://www.thorne.co.uk/