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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:
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|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,
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