
Biodynamic Beekeeping
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Biodynamic Beekeeping is the first book to offer practical instruction on caring for bees using biodynamic theories and methods. By considering the influence of the movement of the stars and the planets on the bees' natural habits, biodynamics encourages beekeepers to be more in tune with their bees indicating, for example, the best days on which to inspect colonies or gather honey.
This fascinating book offers beekeepers detailed advice and instruction on how to work more holistically, including:
-- the challenges and advantages of breeding queen bees
-- how to artificially induce swarming to propagate colonies
-- how to use biodynamic ashing techniques to combat varroa mites
-- instructions for making winter-feed according to current biodynamic thinking
Reviews / Votes
'David Heaf has prepared this excellent and clear translation, enabling an English-reading audience to access for the first time this biodynamic approach, and translating into modern beekeeping practice Rudolf Steiner?s indications on the essential nature of the honey bee... Plenty of interesting ideas for the thinking beekeeper!'-- Bees for Development Magazine
'This book is ideal for the conventional beekeeper who wants to convert to biodynamic methods or for the biodynamic beekeeper who wants to learn more.'
--Cygnus
More details
Persons
biodynamic beekeeping with over 50 years' experience. He had a
Masters in Beekeeping and lectured at biodynamic conferences
and training seminars internationally. He worked with his mother, biodynamic pioneer Maria Thun, on the annual creation of the
seminal Maria Thun Biodynamic Calendar, until her death in 2012
after which he continued it independently. Matthias lived at his
family's biodynamic homestead in Dexbach, Germany, until his death.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword by David Heaf
- 1. The Start of the Bee Year
- 2. Caring for Bees According to Cosmic Rhythms
- 3. The First Spring Inspection
- 4. The Building Frame
- 5. The Urge to Swarm
- The colony is allowed to swarm
- Preventing the swarm but retaining the young queens
- Preventing the swarm but swarm cells are not required for breeding queens
- Controlling and preventing the swarm urge
- The Marburg box
- 6. Colony Regeneration and Propagation
- Natural increase in colony numbers
- Prime swarm at the site of the parent colony
- Artificial colony increase
- Colony reproduction with bred queens
- Various options for colony reproduction
- 7. Breeding Queen Bees
- Breeding in queenless colonies
- Breeding in queen-right colonies
- Queen reproduction through deliberate use of the swarming instinct
- 8. Honeycomb Construction
- Natural comb construction
- Foundation
- The use of natural comb and comb built with foundation
- Changing over to natural comb
- Building in the honey chamber
- The age of foundation wax
- Conclusion
- 9. Honey
- Nectar
- The conversion of nectar to honey
- Processing the honey
- Types of honey and their uses
- 10. Feeding in Winter
- 11. Bee Diseases
- Brood disease
- Adult bee diseases
- Diseases that harm both brood and adult bee
- 12. Methods of Ash Usage
- Potentising the ash
- The application of ground (dynamised) ash
- Varroa and drones
- 13. The Cultivation of Plants for Bees
- 14. The Conservation of Bees for the Future
- Bibliography and Recommended Reading
- About the Author
- Copyright
- Foreword
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