Centre for Ecological Apiculture
Good
for bees and beekeepers, good for mankind and earth. Easy going beekeeping
in the beginning of a new solar Economy - without cruelty to animals,
without frames, supers, artificial compounds in the combs, fossil energy
and nuclear power
"The
noble is animal friendly" Menzius (372 - 289 B.C.)
"What
is necessary above all, is, that you are able to call a spade a spade"
Konfuzius (551 - 479 v. Chr.)
1.
Harmonical Developement of the Bee-Colony Instead of Travelling With Beecolonies,
Which is Also Common Among Organic Beekeepers, and Which is the Reason
why Mainstream Organic Beeproduce may be Contaminated with Antibiotics,
Communication-System of Beecolonies, CCD, IBDS, Quarks & Co
2.
Variety of Flowers, No Agro-Genetic Engineering and Other Noxious Pollutants
3.
Swarming Impulse is Basis for Breeding - No Artificial Queenbreeding
4.
No Instrumental Insemination or Other Artificial Breeding Methods, No Wing
Clipping of the Queenbee
5.
Raw Honey - / Honey Comb and Beeswax Quality: No Ultrafiltration, No Treatment
With Heat During Honeyharvest and Filling, No Artificial Honey Comb such
as Cassettes Made of Wood or Plastic ("Bee-O-Pac-System" , "Ross-Rounds",
"Hogg's-Cassettes", "Romanov")
6.
Beehives Made of Natural Materials, No Feeding With Sugar, Syrop, Soymeal,
Milkpowder or Functional Food With Artificially Added Vitamins, Proteins,
No "Clearing Up"
7.
Bees in Top-Bar Hives in the Centre for Ecological Apiculture Drawing Combs
Out Naturally, No Plastic Foundation or Combs, No Artificial Wax, No Pressing-Method
8.
Medicine Against Diseases Made of Compounds that Are Natural Ingredients
of Honey
9.
Raw Honey, Propolis, Pollen, Beesbread and Beeswax - Bees Know All About
their Specialties and Delicatessen
10.
On the Character of Bees
11.
How Do I Recognize Beeproduce From Apiaries of the Centre for Ecological
Apiculture? More Beekeepers Needed who are Successful Applicants of Final
Class and Graduated in Ecological Beekeeping (No. 62)?
12.
The Advantage of Top-Bar Beekeeping According Standards of the Centre for
Ecological Apiculture
Making full use of travelling with beecolonies is very common among organic beekeepers; this is a reason why also organic beeproduce can be contaminated with pesticides and antibiotics from time time. More...
We don't need any further kind of industrial beekeeping methods but beekeeping considering the character of beecolonies - in the age of "Solar Economy". Framehive-beekeeping and artificial breeding methods come from past age of fossil energy, which is well known for its overexploitation. "Solar Economy" means learning from Goethe and Beuys; concerning the bees it means no yield increase by frame- and skyscraperhive- beekeeping, plastic combs, foundation and syrope-feeding (Api Review letters 2007, 6, Nr. 195).
An "industrial" beekeeping as it is also common among organic apiaries leads in connection with high insecticide treatments and genetically modified pollen to strange diseases of the honeybee worldwide. The communication system of the beecolony collapses. Socalled "Colony Collapse Disorder" and IBDS (Idiopathic Brood Disease Syndrome) are the results. On top of that industrial beekeeping help spreading out new parasites such as small hive beetle which is able to ruin the whole apiary. (Apicultural Review letters, vol. 6, No. 116-121 and 10, No. 601).
Web-TV and linklist
on topic Colony Collapse Disorder in most remarkable German TV Program
(WDR) Quarks & Co:
Further
links: http://www.wdr.de/tv/quarks/sendungsbeitraege/2008/0715/linktipps_bienen.jsp
Apimondia
Conference in Organic Beekeeping
Further reading:
Manual organic /ecological beekeeping
Further advising
for ecological beekeeping in top-bar-hives without magazines, frames and
foundation: crash-course and further practical courses, training
in the Centre for organic /ecological Apiculture. Registration under: Tel.
+49-5652-917899.
Sign up for Membership
in Natural Apitherapy Council, Club
of Ecological Partner-Apiaries / Honeybee Stuardship Council or support
honeybees from cruelty-free beekeeping!
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See
also article in Api Review Letters 2009, Vol. 8 Nr.
325
Further reading:
Dangerous
Toxins From Genetically Modified Plants Found in Women and Fetuses - Links
to allergies, auto-immune disease, and other disorders Natural Bt is dangerous;
Bt cotton linked to human allergies, animal deaths; Living pesticide factories
inside us? Science
Review Letters 2011, Vol.10, # 400
The full story of an until now legal poison: Roundup (glyphosate) - Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Alzheimer, Parkinson, Cancer Science Review Letters 2011, Vol.10, # 381
Toxic food - not only for cows, sheeps and honeybees - made by Monsanto, Bayer, BASF & Co Api Review Letters 2009, Vol.8, # 351
The five main GM foods are soy, corn, cotton, canola, and sugar beets. Products made of these GM foods such as sugar, high fructose sirope, lecithine are more toxic than expected. Even FDA and EFSA gave wrong testimonials over jears; they failed together with many leading politicians Science Review Letters 2009, Vol.8, # 309
GM-crop-Desaster: The US government payments to farmers are up by $3 to $5 billion annually due to GM crops. growers have only been kept afloat by the huge jump in subsidies. genetic pollution caused by today’s GMOs could theoretically outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste. Genetically modified sugar beets. Even smal amounts of contaminants can be quite dangerous. A brand killed about 100 Americans and caused 5,000-10,000 to become sick or permanently disabled. Science Review Letters 2008, Vol.7, # 202
Biosafety?Unscientific assumptions the basis of approvals? - blatant propaganda exercise stands validated as exemplary science - Toxic gm foods could have been approved. Science Review Letters 2007, Vol.6, # 182
Documentation of US-resistance against genetically modified (GM) foods, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and review of new scientific research on dangerous and life threatening side effects of modern Biotechnology in: Science Review Letters (2007, Vol.6, #156-159)
Severe side effects of agro-genetic engineering on honeybees and other beneficial insects. See Centre for Foodsafety and grassroot movement "civil courage" in Germany:
Risks
of genetically modified crops on honeybees
http://www.zivilcourage-miesbach.de/Bienen.html
Did you know
that most beekeepers, also from certified organic apiaries (according EU-organic
rule, USDA organic program, standards of most organic associations) let
their queens grow up from worker larvae ("grafting") although it is senseless
from the point of view of the spirit of the beecolony, for which it is
selfevident that a queen is only a good queen which has grown up from the
beginning in a special round queencell with special queen fodder (gelee
royale)?
Did you know
that in many cases beekeepers, also from certified organic apiaries (according
EU-organic rule, USDA organic program, standards of most organic associations)
do not let the queens fly out to their traditional nuptial flight, but
carry out artificial insemination of the queen instead? To prevent the
queen flying out they clip the wings of the queen. Some beekeepers really
think to be on the path of nature by fixing the queen in a special way
on the instrument.
Since August
2003 ultrafiltration is allowed also in the EU. What does it mean? With
the help of this technique it is legal to filter out typical honey compounds
- a technique which leads to honeyfalsification very easily. According
standards of Centre for Ecological Apiculture neither this technique nor
heat treatment during harvest and filling is allowed.
Did you know that comb-honey is a produce to which neither mechanical (extraction, stiring procedure) nor heat treatment ("melting") has occured and which consequently is an product of especially high quality?
Thus there is an increase in popularity regarding comb honey. But always again checking turns out that in parts 90 percent of the comb honey is being criticized. For the most part it is imported honey which contains brood and foundation (sometimes made of paraffin) or is contaminated with antibiotics and beerepellents. On top of that, in many cases you find artficial comb honey, for instance Cassettes made of wood or plastic ("Bee-O-Pac-System" , "Ross-Rounds", "Hogg's-Cassettes", "Romanov") More...
Not only milk powder and glycerine (used for cough siropes or mixtures) from China is poisened, but als beeproduce like propolis, royal jelly, perga, beeswax, honey, who are sometimes being imported from third countries. More than 500 People were already killed. (see also chapter 9)
But also comb honey from Germany is concerned, if it is not produced according our standards. According EU-Rules even artificial foundation in comb honey is allowed.
Thus, where may I
buy pure comb honey? More information and sources of supply for pure
comb in the comb with natural cristalization (not heated) see below or
under phone: 0049 5652 917899
either of straw
or of wood or clay.
Not allowed
according standards of Centre for Ecological Apiculture are:
Hives, frames, foundations
and combs made of plastic,
wired frames,
artificially created
beewax foundation,
artificial wax foundation,
fibrocement hives
(cement and asbestos),
polypropylene hives
with ultraviolett-resistant stabilizers,
polystyrene, aluminium
sheets, facing of aluminium on the interior (to prevent bees from chewing
soft types of plastic),
rotating frame hives,
"skyscraperhives",
hives, which divide
the colony in fragments (magazines)
No artificial feeding with sugar (from Roundup ready sugar beets), syrop (from genetically modified corn or wheat), soy meal, milkpowder or functional food, no "clearing up"
Did you know that most animals such as cows, pigs, hens etc are being fed with Roundup ready soy? As Roundup ready soy contains glyphosate, it is supposed to be one of the most toxic food for human beings and animals. The same apply to Roundup ready sugar beets. Beekeepers are being using it for feeding their bees.
Did you know that most beekeepers take away the complete honey reserves of the beecolonies - also the honey from the border of the combs in the brood area? They call it the "clearing up"!
In contrast to industrial beekeeping and organic beekeeping, feeding sugarmixtures and syrope in apiaries certified by centre for ecological Apiculture, is not allowed. There is left enough honey in the beecolonies for wintertime.
sugarmixtures and syrop used by the majority of beekeepers as winterfodder for beecolonies, contain Glycosesyrupe, which is made from genetically modified raw materials. You can find it in all sweets, marzipan inclusive and even in honey.
By the way, many beekeepers - also those from organic apiaries - are feeding not only sugar syrop but also soymeal, milkpowder and functional food with artificially added vitamins, proteins, iron and so on. Residuals of sugarfeeding as well as residuals of soymeal and milkpowder can be found in beeproduce (honey, beesbread, propolis); it doesn't make any difference if they are contaminated with melamin or genetically engineered ingredients or not.
Thus beekeepers - although fighting against genetic engineering - are main supporters of genetic engineering because they use inexpensive sugarsyrop and soymeal! On top of that they weaken their colonies by using artificial fodder. More...
On top of that you
can find already genetically modified sugar beets, which accidantly may
have joined the human food chain.
More...
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Further
reading and references:
Pollmer,
U. et al. 2007: Lexikon der populären Ernährungsirrtümer.
Frankfurt/Main, Eichborn
Thiele,
M. 2008: "junk produce" also in Bio-Supermarkets? News from the "Lemon-Markets".
Science
Review Letters 2008,
7, # 256
Thiele,
M. 2009: What does "clearing up" mean?. Artificial feeding of honeybees
with sugarsyrop, sugar, Soymeal and milkpowder, as it is common among the
majority of beekeepers, does not only support Biotech-Industry. Api
Review Letters 2009,
8, # 327
Centre
for Ecological Apiculture 2009: Classes on how to become a topbar-beekeeper
of the Centre for Ecological Apiculture. Natural beekeeping without frames,
sugarfeeding, cruelty to animals. Api Review Letters 2009, 8, #
325
Thiele,
M. 2012: Gentechnik in Fleisch, Milchprodukten und Honig. Honig mit der
Aufschrift: "Ohne Gentechnik" enthält Pollen von gentechnisch verändertem
Roundup ready Soja. Api Review Letters 2012,
11, Nr. 632
und Dbj 2012, 20, p. 55
Did you know
that the Centre for Ecological Beekeeping is the only Institution in Germany
where bees are being solely kept in top-bar-hives and allowed to draw out
their combs themselves without frames, in contrast to bees from beekeepers
who need to get along with plastic combs in plastic hives, artificial wax
or foundation and wire or even need to live in socalled "skyscaperhives"
together with up to six (!) queens per colony - which is practiced
in anti-ecological technique of socalled "Pressing-methode"? (Api review
letters 2006,
5, 70)
Therefore our Standards are eligible to produce apitherapeutic products like comb-honey and comb-honey with beebread (especially for those who have an allergy to pollen), as well as 100 % beeswax from naturally built combs (there is no wax-mill who is selling beewax in that quality)
Did you know that
the Centre for Ecological Beekeeping is the only Institution worldwide
who offers a Traineeship for becoming a certified apiary of centre for
ecological Apiculture? How does it work? You may start with practical One-day-information-course
in ecological top-bar beekeeping.
Registration under: Tel. 0049-5652-917899.
Beekeepers of
Centre for Ecological Apiculture normally don't need medicine against Varroa
mites. How does it work? Hobbyists and sideliners should start with distance
course and practical on day information courses in the Centre for Ecological
Apiculture: join classes on natural / ecological beekeeping in top-bar-hives
for beginners
Please notice: Common framehive beekeeping and travelling with beecolonies - as it is also common among organic beekeepers - is not suitable for obtaining that quality of beeproduce which is needed for apitherapeutical beeproduce
Professional beekeepers
may join our Training
in the Centre for Ecological Apiculture.
It is also possible to purchase Top-bar-hives constructed according standards
of Centre for Ecological Apiculture. (Tel. +49 5652 917899).
Raw honey, propolis,
pollen and beewax as it is produced by the bees - in apiaries where they
are kept according the character of bees:
Delicious and apitherapeutic beeproduce as you won't find in a shop for delicatessen: pure comb honey with natural cristalization (not heated), the rare specialty combhoney with beebread, natural honey (raw honey, run-honey from naturally built combs neither extracted nor stirred nor heated before filling), German spring-time pollen, propolis, royal jelly. On top of that pure beeswax without residuals (qualified for moulding in a kindergarten or for apitherapeutic purposes)
If you are looking for a certified member apiary in your surrounding, please contact Centre for Ecological Apiculture (adress see below) or see List of beeproduce
Everybody is able to support a "longlasting fertility in beekeeping" in contrast to success in artificial beekeeping for a short time. Become a member or support cruelty-free beekeeping!
Did you know that even organic honey is being heated before filling? Did you know that food (meat from pork, poultry, rabbit) and even honey imported from China is sometimes so contaminated with ecologically harmful chemicals and animal medicine like Chloramphenicol (destroys bone marrow of children), that the EU needs to stop the import of animal produce, especially honey from time to time?
According to new scientific research, agriculture and environment contaminate beewax only little. The apiary itself is the source for contamination. One needs to attach the greatest importance to varroa exterminators, and waxmoth exterminator Paradichlorbenzol (PDCB). A heightened Coumaphos-concentration in wax can be even toxic to queens. Bad side effects on brood and health of bees can't be excluded also by lower wax concentrations. The accumulation of Varroazides in combwax leads to a kind of „long-term-therapy" of Varroa, which can cause resistances.
Beeswax,
propolis, honey, comb honey, royal jelly being used in pharmacy, alternative
medicine, cosmetics, holistic therapies, needs to be residue free.
For the time being there is no uncontaminated beewax on the Europien market.
Such beewax needs to be imported from Africa - Only in the centre for ecological
Apiculture and its certified member apiaries uncontaminated beewax is being
produced, as these apiaries work completely without foundations and the
beewax is harvested from combs drawn out naturally by the bees. (Apicultural
Review Letters 2006, 5, #32)
Did you know
that the founder of the Waldorfschool and biologic-dynamic agriculture
(Rudolf Steiner/Phd) considered Apiculture to be so important that he started
1923 lectures "on the charakter of bees"?
For him it was a matter of "longlasting fertility in beekeeping" in contrast to success in artificial beekeeping for a short time. As generally in agriculture, also here apply that it is something different if one gives free play to nature and only bring it on correct tracks or if one carry something artificially in this matter.
You can find interesting comparisons in these lectures, for instance worker bees and bloodcells, drones and nerve cells, bees and wasps (bees as in ancient times breeded wasps); he tells us about the importance of insects in nature (more important than pollination is the distribution of natural formic acid); about swarming, which is a crucial need of the bees (linked to bee poison and three infinitesimal eyes on the forehead, about which science didn't find out the meaning until now - but it's not surprisingly as for the time being only 1 % of the bee's behavioral repertoire has been dicovered and documented by scientists)
He speaks about the relation between brain and formic acid (which can be found in honey and bee poison), and if there is not enough formic acid in the human body, soul and spirit were notable to be kept together.
In other words: Everybody
should be very much interested in beekeeping, "because more than one thinks
human life depends on beekeeping." (Apicultural Review letters 2005,
4,
#1)
Why do we need
a complicated technique? Top-bar beekeeping - according standards of Centre
for ecological Apiculture - is the most recommended beekeeping method.
In Api Reviev Letters again and again it is reported about mainstream organic / natural beekeeping and if these kind of beekeepers see the point regarding beekeeping considering the character of bees. At least they are good in creating new words: they are speaking about "Organic beekeeping society", "thehealingpath ", "gaiabees", "biohoney", "biobees" „Professional organic beekeeping competence", "Demeter-beekeeping", „Beekeeping according specific species, but easy to handle", „Broodnest as a oneness" and even bee-friendly beekeeping.
A socalled "organic" or "natural" beekeeper tells for instance: „organic beekeeping is resting on three pillars, who stand together in an inner connection". One pillar is: „it is good practice in beekeeping to consider the Broodnest as a oneness". You may ask, how many follies need to be quartered in a head until this one may find a place? Neither non-organic nor organic / natural beekeepers consider the broodnest to be a oneness. It’s a pity but it’s a fact. The usage of wired frames, foundation wax, smoke is generally allowed - also by Demeter and Soil Association. What does it mean? Wired pieces of wood together with artificially moulded wax foundations is given to the colony. Only Demeter tries to work with large frames which are completely nonpractical and not solely beefriendly. Demeter lays down in their standards that „Combs and brood need to grow according the developement of the colony by combs drawn out naturally, without being disturbed by frames", nevertheless the combs do not end naturally, they are enclosed in wire and frames. Even Warré hives cannot be called beefriendly. [4]
More according beekeeping
considering the character of bees [1] can be called the building of natural
combs for instance in a straw hive or in a Top-bar-hive (movable combs),
as it can be found in apiaries certified according standards of Centre
for Ecological Apiculture. [2] [3][4]
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[1]
Unfortunately there are many organic beekeeping associations, organisations
and authors who speak about beekeeping according the needs of beecolonies,
about natural and holistic beekeeping but who actually carry out mainstream
organic or even artificial beekeeping methods
[2]
Centre for Ecological Apiculture 2008: Why do the bees swarm? Apicultural
Review Letters 2008, 7, # 239.
[3]
Apicultural
Review letters 2005, 4, #.2-4
[4]
Thiele, M. 2009: Warré
Hive or Top Bar Hive ? Is the Warré hive really so simple, sustainable
and bee-friendly as maintained by their proponents? Beekeeping according
Warré or standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture? Apicultural
Review Letters 8, # 386
International
certification systems working together with Centre for Ecological Apiculture.
Apiaries of the Centre for Ecological Apiculture are being inspected and
certified according international standards for beekeeping considering
the character of bees. Awards like "Proficiency Certificate" and
Certificate III (apiary certification) in beekeeping considering the character
of bees will confirm that. At the end of a long list you'll find a certification
of A grade beeproduce according standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture.
All beekeepers of the Centre for Ecological Apiculture have absoved the
two semester Training
"Ecological
Beekeeping Proficiency" (#62)
Certification according the EU organic rule, USDA organic program or standards of other organic and beekeeping associations who support framehive-beekeeping, is not sufficient to be in conformity with standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture!
For grade A beeproduce
certification we offer a two
semester training in the Centre for Ecological Apiculture. By the way
more and more beekeepers are needed who are successful applicants of final
class and graduated in natural beekeeping (No. 62 / 110 / 210)! Experience
shows that a Save Beecolonies / Natural Apitherapy Council membership
for many years has positive effects on certification!
Certified
Beekeepers of the Centre for Ecological Apiculture
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Michael Thiele, expert in organic / ecological beekeeping, natural Apitherapy
and Apiwellness, organic / biodynamical agriculture and food quality,
hazards
of agro-genetic engineering and food safety, Renaturation of Ecosystems
and nature conservation
Franzrasen 2, D-37242 Bad Sooden / Germany
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