-----Original Message----- From: David Gaida <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Dienstag, 5. Januar 1999 21:35 Subject: Recommended reading |Hi Folks. | |Here I am, looking for more advice. Thanks in advance. | |Our beekeeping club has pretty much decided how to handle our local school |and kids requests for bee information. And the local 4-H ers want to get |in on it too. | |Here's what we are planning: | |The local conservation officer has agreed to allow us to place a hive or |two on the local "Conservation Outdoor Classroom" site. The site is a |couple acres behind the local high school. The hives will be somewhat |secluded to try to prevent vandalism. We plan on, eventually, building an |information board with pictures, etc. The kids visit the site and learn |about conservation efforts, usually by the busload. Maybe someday, even an |observation hive. | |I spoke with the local 4-H agent. I suggested that the 4-H'ers use the |hive as their 4H project. They would have to meet a year round thing, so I |suggested they must help various beekeepers maintain hives, paint hives, |build hives and frames, over the non beeraising times. Also, many 4H |parents won't bee too happy to invest a coupla hundred dollars in a hive |with no chance for a good return in the first year. (As you know, most 4H |projects are sold at the end of the summer. Sometimes for a real good |profit) | |Here's the question. Which texts are the best to use for the 4Hers to |learn about beekeeping. As beginners they probably need to learn about |bees, but not just that. And the text should be easy enough for about a |10 year old to read and understand. It has to have beginner beekeeping |stuff in it also. I would like the beeclub to purchase the books and lend |them out. Hopefully any of the kids that decide to go on to beekeeping |will need more advanced books. | |Any suggestions or recommendations? I have read about most of the books |out there. And even own about 4 or 5. But not sure about the beginners |from this standpoint. | |Thanks, again. | |Judy in Kentucky, USA Hello dear Judy, Besides all beekeeping related info/books, I think you can add very important information on the healing properties of bee products. This may be interesting mainly for the children's parents, in a first phase. There are many children diseases which can be healed, or at least improved or stabilized by the bee products. Here are only a FEW indications: - secondary anemia; - lack of concentration, poor memory etc.; - insomnia; - flu; - sinusitis; - bronchial asthma; - blood circulation problems; - digestive disorders like: anorexia (lack of appetite); parasitosis; malnutrition; constipation/diarrhea; - urinary bladder and kidney disorders like: enuresis, infections, polakiuria; - liver disorders, including hepatitis; - immune system disorders, including AIDS or neoplasms. If you need more details about the above apitherapy related stuff you have the following choices: * to join your local or international Apitherapy Societies: - the American Apitherapy Society; - the UK Apitherapy Society; - the German Apitherapy Society; - the Lithuanian Apitherapy Society. Their full addresses can be obtained from our Internet Apitherapy Data Base: www.sci.fi/~apither * to read, copy and study the "Pediatry" pages from the above mentioned Site (owner Durk Ellison); * to join our future Internet Apitherapy Course; * to contact me privately at: [log in to unmask] Kind regards,