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Permaculture and permapiculture

Permaculture means 'permanent culture,' (or 'permanent agriculture') and ...'is the conscious design and maintenance of cultivated ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of a natural ecosystem.' (Bill Mollison)

And Oscar Perone with his permapiculture:

This section has useful information to supplement their training in Permapicultura.

We strongly recommend that you access free beekeeping course in a book of Don Manuel Oksman, who was my teacher in this beautiful job of interacting with nature and our beloved bees.

I recommend it if you're curious to know from where the Permapicultura.

To my dear master Don Manuel Oksman, genius world of beekeeping, he said, and I must have driven by this path has led me to create this natural beekeeping technique that is revolutionizing the world of beekeeping.

We also offer a series of testimonials from various countries and different races of bees, which attest that the Permapicultura is a reality that will help you change your financial future, providing the ideal tool for you to change when you have and put it.

VREMEA

Vreme ciineasca,de toamna.Sper ca in scurt timp sa se indrepte.Orice se spune clima schimba si nu cred ca in bine.

Sever 50

Roiuri vechi

Imperecherea

Ptr Cunoscatori Mole

Pregatiri ptr sezonul viitor de lupta impotriva lui Moles ptr cunoscatori adicatelea doamna cirtita :
Filmul :

Weather

For 5 days the rain it's present.I happy that the days when Jorn was were we had a good weather.
In warrebeekeeping i found Rudolf Steiner the collection of lectures about bees "Bees, a collection of 8 lectures (with prelude and appendix of extracts) by Rudolf Steiner. (From CW 351, with the prelude from CW348). Given in Dornach."


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CPR cu Jorn from George Tolos on Vimeo.

Jorn did visit me for 2 weeks.Like 6 years ago the visit begin in the first of May.It was a very nici visit for me and I hope for Jorn too.

Holiday first week or still summer

My holiday started at the first of September. For one year I was waiting for this.
I have something to do for my bees and then I’ll go fishing.
A bad thing happened: my queen from Alpine hive was missing in mating flight so I have to give up to this hive I’ll united it with another.
I'll come with news next week.

Last 3 weeks with friends & enemies

I did not write for some time in my blog.
I had a lot of work to do before going to my holiday.
I did spent my time to my apiary with some old frind.
First of all the Alpine hive make problems. The bees decided to superseded the queen .

So now I have in the hive a brand new queen but last weekend she was unmated. I’ll see if she is mated if not I have to give up working with the Alpine hive.
One of my enemy.

My friend call him "the bees wolf". Do you recognize him









Please look to one of my friends .

I’ll spend my holidays to my apiary getting the bees for winter.

See you soon.

Beekeeping Symposium

I’m really happy that I can tell to you who read this little blog about Beekeeping symposium that will bee here in Romania. Between 11-14 September 2008 In Bucharest Romania will be beekeeping symposium "Beekeeping Simple & Clear"
To this link you can read about final program of the symposium:

http://www.apimondiafoundation.org/foundation/symposium/finalprogram.pdf

I think that you’ll find the symposium interesting .

WHY

WHY
A lot of why questions last week.
From Tuesday last week started the rain. As you probably know in the in the nord of our country there are floods and the bad thing human lives were killed. You’ll say" it’s the Nature" . No, it’s the Man. For 10 years the climate is changing and the future in my opinion does look good. But we keep going this way. It’s our choice.
Around here a lot of rain and storm. On Wednesday the storm brake down 2 hives. One of them lost their queen. I have to unite this hive because I don’t think that a good time to rear queens. No nectar is available in nature and the weather in not a good one for rearing queens.
Surprisingly the small hive Alpine was not tern down by the storm.
I did check half of my hives. I did mark the queens and clipped. I did feed a small nuc. I intended to winter this nuc(in Langstroth hive) using the experiment done by Canadian beekeeper Pedersen.
Why I’m doing all this?
As you can see in this little film the the queen in Alpine hive I clipped and marked the queen and for moment everything is OK.

Killer or How to spend The Weekends

Arrived to my apiary wet (the temperature was about 32 degrees) but happy because I’m free for 3 days and I can work my bees.
Sunday morning I start working my second Alpine hive (or Warre). One day I’ll try to explain why I’m interested to this type of hive.

As you can see in the little film the first Alpine hive looks OK and hope that I’ll have a strong family next spring.

By noon on Sunday I did looking to my tomatoes. I did get mad when I did see a mole start big up just right in the middle of my tomatoes bad. The tomatoes are special for me because they are not Dutch they are old Romanian tomatoes and I want to make a lot of tomatoes for seeds. That bastard named mole start to dig and destroy. See the film what happened.

Work in Apiary

I’ll begin this post saying "Thanks Jorn". I did use calciumcarbid to get rid of that bastards named moles. At the beginning I was lucky but after 2 weeks they start make more hills about ~ 50 meters away. Well I’ll repeat the lethal calciumcarbid next week to see what happen.

On Wednesday as soon as I arrived to my beeyard I did start to clean up the apiary. A lot of work to do but at the end I make a big fire and burn the misery.

Saturday wake up by 7:30. Make preparation to move a small swarm in to warre(Alpine) hive. All my insistences let me down. Only two man help me David J. Heaf and Ilmārs B.. So at the moment I don’t know the management of Alpine hive but for sure I’ll find out before give up beekeeping. You can see my first step on Alpine hive.
Success George!

Toftman or Beekeeper

The little political situation in the beeyard named "Happy Apiary".Well, it's what I want to write ,it's a kind balance and do believe me I don't like to write a thing like this.Now, let's start.For me it's time to harvest. It's time to be happy. To be sincerely I'm not so happy. The average from 6 hive it's 12 kg/colony. I don't know that

it's a good average it's not but for me who visit in spring my beeyard for 10 times and I can't work my bees because of the weather only 4 time. Anyway I have honey for my and my friend and don't forget there are still honey flow: lime, and perhaps honey dew.I had 4 hive that swarmed in last month 3 of them become feral colonies and I cached one(using lemongrass oil paste).After the hives swarmed I had 4 new unmated queens. Now I have now 3 mated queens and one missing in action, I mean lost in mating flight.Only one thing make me a little bit happy : my fruit trees.

How to get rid of..

Since Romania joined EU Animal Protection do not permit to use chemicals to destroy animal like that bastard named MOLE ( Talpa Europaea). I want to get rid of them because In short time I’ll have more Moles then bee colonies. In all my garden have such hills. Can anyone help ?

14,15 June or Swarms If you wish

For sure you had enough of my complains in my last posts, but this weather make me feel stupid: this is not beekeeping this is a kind of lottery. For quite some time I have the idea to give up because this is not the way to work my bees.
Arrived to my beeyard and I did find the same cloudy sky. I started assembling the Alpine hive T made last winter. Really I want to work with this type of hive. Last 2 years I did read a lot on the Internet about this Warre hive. I can not say something about this type of hive because I know about Warre only by reading, but I want to see how it works. You can see me in action doing 3 Alpine hive.

On Saturday I did wake up about 7 am with a lot of hope. The same cloudy sky. About 11 AM I did try to open one hive to see if I can working the bees. No way, I got a lot of stings. I did give up.
Start cutting the grass and I had a coffee . About 1:30 PM I did hear a "big" near my hives. Guess what I saw ? You can see in this little movie.
I do not blame the bees, I do not blame the weather I blame my self why I don’t give up. That it.

Lime Tree

I want to tell you that you visit Arad from ~20 of May till `10 of June you’ll be surprised. Lime tree flavour (aroma) make you fill in haven. From the railway station till the Theater of Arad there are around 100 lime trees. This is why I love Arad among other things . Last 3 years during midday you can fill the pollution from town traffic and only in evening the lime trees aroma become real

That’s it !

For quite some time I can not work properly my bees because of the weather ( not only). In the weekends the weather was rainy so I have to do all the work in hurry .
Friday 6/6/2008 . Arrived at 7;30 to my beeyard. The sky was full of black clouds. I did look to my hives(not opened). The first rain drops about 10 PM. I have to rethink my beeleeping.
Saturday 7/6/2008. I did wake up about 6 AM. The sky was cloudy . I had a cup of coffe. I hope and pray not to rain. I think how to work my bees in this situation. For the moment no chance. I did start to make lemongrass oil paste and you can see in the photos I did make it .

Around midday the sun did show up. First I did look to the hive with the new queen I did put in home made cage(you can see the film in my last post). The bees did release her and now it is on the comb. She is not matted. I hope she will mate next week. Looking to my Reduced Langsthroth (RL) as you can see in the photo. I did start using this type of hive from last year. I have 2 such hive. I’ll explain this type of hive and his benefits in my opinion. At this moment the RL is equal with 2 Dadant hive body. I’m afraid the family will swarm. Try to harvest 2 combs full of honey but it was impossible, the temperature come up only to 21 Celsius degrees. Perhaps tomorrow.
About 3 PM a big buzz in the apiary. It was a swarm coming out from my RL hive. I’m not really happy but for the moment I can not help. That’s it!