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Story of an African Beekeeper
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The evolution of the ECO-BEEHIVE ©, and me, the reluctant beekeeper
Where did it all start you ask? Well as a little boy helping with the bees on my Grandfathers farm in Africa , (Eastern Cape, frontear Land) To catching my first swarm when I was about twelve years old. (Yes Sean Singery, you remember in the park across the road from your house and your mom compleatly freacked out!) This then sparked the interest. This then evolved into my hobby of beelineing (tracking bees to find wild colonies).
So a little about me. Well I am an African, descendant of a proud heritage of English colonialists.
As A child me my sister and all my cousins would help on the farms in the Eastern Cape during almost every school holiday. Here one of my jobs was to help with the beekeeping. This was my first exposure to honeybees and beekeeping, but more importantly my Uncles very special and way of observing and working with the natural flow and ebb of the bees. Not always with great successes as I remember him getting really beat up buy the bees on one occasion. But he would learn and move forward.
This is also where I discovered Bee-Lining the pre Victorian post Magnacata art of pursuing honey bees. The magnacata outlines that a peasant could take wild honey.
Moving forward, my interest was studying wild honey bees after I had found them. I also dabbled with conventional modern beekeeping, joining a club and everything. But I was disillusioned by it all.
ECO BEEHIVE ©.
Then there was a ECO BEEHIVE ©
Eventually I was persuaded by a work college “ this is absolutely amazing what you are doing you have to tell the world.” Well I was not really interested or ready to tell the world about a better, a more gentle way of beekeeping, so I just started selling my ECO BEEHIVE ©. My wife was ever so patient with me going to shows, weekend after weekend though summer anfter summer, always supportive and even helping me at many.
BUT now I am ready to say what my customer are now telling me to say. Beekeeping is not beekeeping its honey farming. And that is the extent of the animal husbandry with framed hives and even supposedly natural beekeeping using top bar hives. Dosing with chemicals to keep them alive to produce honey.
What I do is really Modern Beekeeping, the honey production levels are based on what is happening in the environment not how much sugar you can feed them. Pest control is not about how good the latest chemicals are but though observations and scientific deduction giving the bees the natural tools, so they can defend themselves. And they be very effective, in fact more effectively than any chemicals.
Let the madness begin
So just like framed box beehives, that take advantage of certain attributes and quirks bees have, so does modern beekeeping with the ECO BEEHIVE. The Victorians where amazing, and the fact they could develop a honey farming system that has barely changed in 200 years is testament to that. But people follow the teachings like a gospel. Some things are universals truths, but something are tools for a certain end result. I to have looked at the universals truths and I have found quite a few more first principles. With this I have developed what I believe is a more ethical and animal-honouring system.
What does ETHICAL AND ANIMAL_ HONORING mean to me?
It means we will not do anything that compromises the animal’s ability to live there best most natural life.
This is very hard to do properly. It requires years of observation and testing with thousands of fails for few victories. But armed with the few victory’s I have developed what is the most caring, why to be a beekeeper, or if you just want to provide them with a home. We can be a HONEYBEE HOST.
I’m 60 years in and I feel my journey has only just begun. But I am 50 years ahead of everyone else. And by buying an ECO BEEHIVE © you are helping me, you are helping honey bees, but you are also 50 years ahead of everyone else.
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Yes this is a little rough and ready, that is the idea. It is built tough and simple, but clever. There are lots of design aspects and features built into this hive to mimic a honey bees natural nest environment. I try to dispatch as soon as possible and keep everyone informed with tracking numbers. I love speaking to our customers so if you have any queries, want more information or just want to have a chat about the bees, please drop me a line. For payments I use Pay Pal ,stripe and square as they are world renowned, not cheap to me but safe for you.
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