[Lapg] and beekeeping support

[Joan Stevens]

and if any of you are interested in keeping bees please use the backwards 
beekeepers list serve, blog, and videos to help!
http://www.backwardsbeekeepers.com/
Also if you are local they have a bee rescue hot line that is a fantastic source 
of locally aclimated naturally selected feral bees for So Cal that are IDEAL to 
use for beekeeping (as opposed to the bizarre notion of getting a specific 
strain of genetic stock of bees raised in Australia and shipped across the 
ocean.)
 "There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We 
must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our 
young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, 
clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from 
hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even 
if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is 
enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the 
very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and 
shelter." 



- Bill Mollison 




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From: CURTIS BLANKINSHIP <curtis.blankinship at gmail.com>
To: lapg at arashi.com; cityrepairla at lists.riseup.net
Sent: Wed, March 21, 2012 11:13:13 AM
Subject: [Lapg] passive beehive plans

This guy builds low maint. passive beehives. Or there is a link to plans to 
build your own.
C


  
 
 
 
 
 The Warré Hive, meant for hands-off, minimalist and sustainable beekeeping 
practices, is used extensively by backyard beekeepers in the United States and 
Europe and in a number of large commercial apiaries. Abbé Émile Warré 
experimented with some 350 hives of various designs with the aim of producing a 
hive that was simple, economical, bee-friendly and which assured a surplus of 
honey for the beekeeper. The result was a hive whose construction and operation 
is described in his book (and free e-book) “Beekeeping For All”. Rather than 
“supering,” or adding empty boxes to the top of the hive, Warré hives are 
“nadired,” meaning that empty boxes are added to the bottom. This mimics the 
environment of a wild colony, as bees prefer building downwards from the top of 
their cavity. A Warré hive is a vertical top bar hive having eight 
foundationless top bars in each box. As these hives were designed most 
specifically for over-wintering of bees in the cold French climate, they provide 
a comfortable home for honeybees to flourish in the Pacific Northwest.
 
You may find a free e-book (PDF) of Abbé Warré’s book “Beekeeping for All” at 
http://warre.biobees.com/bfa.htm. This book should be read by all Warré 
beekeepers. You may download it and have it bound at a local printer, or you may 
purchase the bound edition. 

 
An excellent resource on the Warré hive itself is at www.warre.biobees.comThere 
are assembly diagrams and very useful information at that website ( notice 
especially the links: Warré plansand Warré methods).
 
For more on the scientific basis of bee-friendly beekeeping see 
www.bee-friendly.co.uk .
 
I encourage you to also read "The Complete Idiots Guide to Beekeeping"  by Dean 
Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer.  
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Beekeeping/dp/1615640118
 
To learn more about sustainable beekeeping with Warré beehives,  you will want 
to read "The Bee-Friendly Beekeeper: A Sustainable Approach" by David Heaf  < 
www.bee-friendly.co.uk > and I recommend "Nine Lectures on Bees" by Rudolf 
Steiner, on the wisdom contained in the beehive. You may read it online here 
<http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/English/SGP1975/NinBee_index.html>
 
Bill Wood
(541) 687-8211
woodbillr at q.com
www.beeologique.com 
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