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Bees for Development
http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/info/news/index.shtml
"Rent a Hive" for the summer to get started...
http://www.imkerverein-ingelheim-bingen.de/content/blogcategory/4/15/
Here is the "Ausbildung" for beekeepers in Frankfurt - quite official,
but we could maybe catch a lecture or two:
http://www.institut-fuer-bienenkunde.de/portal/alias__Bienenkunde/lang__de-DE/tabid__5515/default.aspx
If you look at the "Weiterbildung" on this site, it looks like there is
quite a selection of courses and many are all day on Saturdays:
http://www.bienenkunde.rlp.de/Internet/global/startpage.nsf/start/Home_Bienenkunde?OpenDocument
Here's something that would be short and affordable - this particular
town is way up north, but maybe we could convince the local VHS to do
something similar:
http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/halver/2008/8/26/news-72135713/detail.html
Here are some "fern" courses - they offer lots, but push a certain
philosophy - "be kind to bees" - which seems to make sense:
http://www.thiele-und-thiele-consult.de/courses/Praktische-Imkereikurse-fuer-Anfaenger.html
And if we want to combine a course with a trip to Switzerland:
http://www.tagblatt.ch/lokales/thurgau/tb-ob/Faszination-Biene;art205,390396
Or we could just find a local "Imker" to teach us the ropes.
I'm a little surprised that the German Wikipedia offers so much
information - but there is even a list of products other than honey that
we could think about: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imker
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienenweide
http://www.wildbienenhaus.de/bienenweiden.htm
Bee resources - English
General info.
http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/Get_Started/How_to_Get_Started.htm
http://www.i4at.org/lib2/bees.htm
Barefoot Beekeeper
http://www.biobees.com/index.php
http://outdoorplace.org/beekeeping/index.htm
Controlling varroa
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/varroa.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
How to make Soap
http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/making-soap.html
click on the video at the end to see it done
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