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    Advanced Beekeeping: A Deeper Look into Natural Beekeeping, Apitherapy and Beekeeping Business
    Advanced Beekeeping: A Deeper Look into Natural Beekeeping, Apitherapy and Beekeeping Business
    Advanced Beekeeping: A Deeper Look into Natural Beekeeping, Apitherapy and Beekeeping Business
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    Advanced Beekeeping: A Deeper Look into Natural Beekeeping, Apitherapy and Beekeeping Business

    By Randy Stevens

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    Why anyone can turn their love for beekeeping into more than a satisfying hobby (including a business in your backyard)


     


    Are you looking for a way to reconnect with nature in this stressful world?


     


    Have you been thinking of finding a unique, fascinating hobby, or a new way of income?


     


    Do the news of the decline in bees’ populations terrify you?


     


    If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then beekeeping is just the perfect match for you.


     


    The shelves of grocery stores are filled with overly processed, sweet liquid that can’t really be called “honey”. With your own little apiary, you can have direct access to top-quality honey and bee products, all of which have astonishing health benefits.


     


    Furthermore, you can help save the planet. Bees have been around for 100 million years, but recently their populations have decreased rapidly:


     


    ⚫by 40% in the US since 2006


    ⚫by 25% in Europe since 1985


    ⚫by 45% in the UK since 2010


     


    The Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that if the trend continues, by 2035 the common honeybee might disappear. Why not aid the issue by taking care of a couple of colonies?


     


    Even though it might sound intimidating at first, starting your journey into beekeeping can go smoothly and quickly. This book will provide you with the knowledge you need to launch a sustainable, healthy bee sanctuary...and turn it into a successful business if you want to.


     


    Follow the footsteps of start like Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Springsteen, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Michelle Obama and become a treasured carer for those precious pollinators, even without any previous experience.


     


    Thanks to “Advanced Beekeeping”, you will discover:


    ⚫The full spectrum of bee products and their unique health benefits


    ⚫8 simple tips to raising your bees in the most natural way


    ⚫Answers to 10 most common questions about biodynamic beekeeping, and how to implement it in 6 easy steps


    ⚫Tools and techniques for providing your bees with the best housing there is


    ⚫How to provide a healthy, stress-free environment for bees with the help of nature


    ⚫How to keep your bee colonies happy and safe without interfering with their natural strategies


    ⚫Secrets of preparing simple and effective medicines and cosmetics using everything your little friends will have to offer


    ⚫8 proven steps that will help you start earning money from beekeeping


    And much more.


     


    But wait, you may think, I don’t have a sprawling ranch for all the hives.


     


    Don’t worry – you don’t need one. You can easily and safely have a couple of beehives in your backyard, on your roof or on your balcony. Beekeeping is not just for those with swathes of land and hundreds of colonies.


     


    Whether you want some premium quality bee products for yourself, or you want to turn it into a small business, this book will help you get a jumpstart into beekeeping.


     


    With everything from the very basics to creating a goldmine of a business plan, this book is a must-have for you if you too are dreaming of starting your very own apiary.


     


    You too can feel the buzz of excitement when you join the ranks of the planet’s heroes. Just click “

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCreative Minds Publishing
    Release dateOct 31, 2019

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      Advanced Beekeeping - Randy Stevens

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      Introduction

      Beekeeping can be a lucrative business and a way to make a living or supplement your income, or a fascinating hobby and an opportunity to reconnect with nature as a counterweight to our unbalanced and stressful lives.

      Farming bees has become a thriving business throughout the world, however, the world has changed a lot over the last 50 years. Today, modern beekeepers are faced with many challenges which have all contributed to the recent massive demise of bees. The culprits for the disappearance of bees are agricultural pesticides, Colony Collapse Disorder, loss of habitat, and disease – to name but a few.

      For all these, and many other reasons, bees who have successfully survived for almost a hundred million years, have lost their vitality and have become prone to disease. What this means is the not only may we lose pollinators for the crops our livelihood depends on, but we may soon find ourselves in a world where food shortages trigger social unrest and fuel violence.

      Just like canaries were used in mines to detect the presence of dangerous gasses, bees are sensitive indicators of how unbalanced and sick our world has become. The fact that they've been disappearing in their millions year after year is a warning sign that our planet might soon become unlivable.

      So, for a beekeeping business to succeed and thrive in these trying times, modern bee farming requires better beekeeping management skills, ability to adapt to a new situation quickly, and willingness to think out of the box.

      For those who are prepared to work hard, beekeeping can be a viable business. However, don't forget that beekeeping is a type of specialized farming so, if considering beekeeping as a part-time or a full-time occupation, make sure you understand what you're getting into.

      If you have a busy social life or a young family, can you afford to spend weekends with your bees instead of with your friends or family? Besides, are you physically fit to lift heavy hives and ready to spend a lot of time outdoors, often in the scorching heat?

      But, don't stress if you're keen to start beekeeping but have no land to keep your bees on. Unless you live next to a school or a densely populated urban area, you can keep a couple of colonies in your backyard, on the roof of your building, or even on a balcony- provided your family and neighbors don't mind.

      When well-managed and kept in a healthy and forage-rich environment, bees produce enough honey both for themselves and for the beekeeper. So, even just a few colonies can bring you a profit and the upside of the small-scale production of honey is that it is usually much healthier than the over processed and over filtered sweet substance sold as honey made by large commercial bee farms.

      Apiculture, the study of bees, often begins as a hobby which later turns into big business focusing mainly on honey and wax sales. However, there's more to beekeeping than that.

      To make money from bee products in the competitive world we live in, you have to be creative and think out of the box. If you do, you will soon come up with a number of products or services related to beekeeping that you can make and sell, eg health supplements using pollen and propolis, skin balms, decorative candles, dehydrated honey, hand-made honey soap bars, etc.

      Although our environment is not as good for beekeeping as it used to be half a century ago, the new situation has created new opportunities.

      Just as the diseases of civilization, eg stroke, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, diabetes, obesity, and depression are spreading like an epidemic in the developed world, so is the interest in a healthy lifestyle. To benefit from the healthy lifestyle trend more and more beekeepers expand their business by focusing on apitherapy, a branch of alternative medicine which uses bee products as treatments.

      Honey and other bee products can successfully be used to cure disorders of the gastrointestinal system, prevent cancer, heal injured skin, fight aging naturally, treat burns and wounds, etc.

      So, whether you decide to start a bee farm and make a living out of beekeeping, or keep just a few hives in your backyard, your success will depend on many things, many of which are out of your control. The market situation is changing all the time, and competition from imported honeybee products often affects local beekeepers in a big way. As a commercial beekeeper, this is something you'll be painfully aware of all the time.

      This is why you should diversify your beekeeping business not just to reduce risk by investing in different industries, but to maximize your profit by branching out into different marketplaces. In any business, diversification is a safety net against downturns in a single industry. In other words, diversification protects you against market uncertainty.

      Regardless of how successful a beekeeper you may be, there is always space for improvement and finding ways of beating the competition by offering something new. Today, many beekeepers no longer focus on honey and wax sales, but try to produce and sell natural medicine, cosmetics or crafts,

      The future of medicine is in natural healing methods, and there are very few products that are as healing and nutritious as honey and pollen - provided they are produced naturally, ie that the bee forage came from plants not treated by synthetic pesticides and that the honey is not heated and filtered.

      So, to benefit from the healthy lifestyle trend, try and focus on producing natural honey and healthy bee products as these sell at a considerably higher price than regular bee products.

      The reason this is important is that although everyone knows that honey has a long history of medicinal use and that the healing properties of honey are wide and varied, it is raw honey's antibacterial and antifungal properties that make it an ideal healing agent.

      PART 1

      Why Natural Beekeeping Can Save the Bees

      Chapter 1

      The Time Has Come to Rethink our Approach to Beekeeping

      It is now generally accepted that, for a number of reasons, conventional beekeeping methods weaken bees' immune system and make them more prone to disease. On the other hand, ecological beekeeping, also known as holistic, balanced, natural, or biodynamic beekeeping, is based on the idea that to improve the health of honeybee, we need to eliminate or reduce the stresses bees are exposed to.

      This is as true of bees as it is of humans – a stress-free life boosts the immune system and makes you not only less prone to disease but enables you to fight the viruses and bacteria naturally, without the use of medication.

      Although this probably sounds like an unrealistic idea, it is not an impossible dream although it would require a major shift in the way we raise and keep bees. It would include avoiding the use of antibiotics as well as synthetic chemicals for varroa treatment, banning all dangerous pesticides, and refraining from feeding the bees with artificial food supplements.

      Although the honey bee is still not an endangered species, it's estimated that globally it has decreased by about one-third. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experts forecast that if the trend continues, by 2035 honeybee might disappear from the face of the earth.

      Reasons for this decline are many - parasites, climate change, environmental pollution, radiofrequency which affects bees' electromagnetic fields, etc but the main culprits are the pesticides used in agriculture, and particularly a nicotine-based class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

      Unlike traditional pesticides that are typically applied to a plant’s surface, neonicotinoids are systemic pesticides that are absorbed into plant tissue, turning a plant into a poison (something we're supposed to eat?). Such a plant is full of toxins, from the pollen, down to the roots. Neonicotinoid insecticides were introduced in the 1990s and are now commonly used for pest management.

      Recent studies have shown that bees that come into contact with this poison live less than the normal 6 weeks. Besides, insecticide affects their navigation system, and many of them simply cannot find a way home.

      The disappearance of bees started in the US and

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