This toolkit is designed to give you an overview of Sustainable Beekeeping.  It gives various links to help you become a sustainable beekeeper.  Good luck!

Read - Building a Better Bee -  by Tom Henheffer

an article about Ron Hoskins who is the Founder, President and Chairman of Swindon Honeybee Conservation Group, and his groundbreaking work in selectively breeding a stronger more healthy bee, able to fight varroa effectively - without chemicals!.  Ron is our new Apicultural Adviser. 

If you are interested in beekeeping, or just helping bees, read about Ron Hoskins' exciting new project - click on the Beekeeping Breakthrough tab above

Bees are under attack!

What can you do to protect the most essential of nature's little helpers in their time of crisis?  Honey bees forage over at least a four mile radius, and bees are not dogs - they can't be taught to stay within the perimeter of your property.  So you may think that keeping bees sustainably is a waste of time. 

But you'd be wrong!

Keeping your bees in a sustainable way, and in accordance with natural principles as far as you can will ensure that stresses that bees are presently under should be significantly reduced, resulting in healthier bees. 

The basis of sustainable beekeeping is that  bees should be treated as gently as possible using natural methods.  Avoidance of any type of pesticide or synthetic chemical intervention is at it's core. 

Sustainable natural methods are used to ensure a healthy colony.  Bees, including honey bees, have been around for millennia.  In a damning indictment of the developed world, in the last 5 years bee numbers have declined dramatically.  Pollution of all kinds has been implicated causing over time a drastic reduction in immunity.  Sustainable living, and sustainable beekeeping could stem this decline by boosting bee immunity and giving them a fighting chance.  Nature is key.

Remember - Less Stress is Best!                           

We strongly recommend that you sign up for a sustainable beekeeping course before you get your bees or equipment.   These courses will ensure you understand, not only the sustainable methods involved in beekeeping, but how important it is to recognise mites, viruses and other attackers which can plague bees, and which diseases are notifyable such as European Foulbrood.

Click on the 'Sustainable Beekeeping Courses' tab, for details of courses

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