Honey Fair (Reigate)

healthy products from a hive, bees and making a beeswax candle

Duration : 0:9:3

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13 October

beekeeping in Guinea (2 of 3) equipment

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/oic_toc.htm for more information on Farmer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Rural development agents from the Fédération des apiculteurs de Guinée, and OIC’s Food and Livelyhood Security Pita and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer provided appropriate technology solutions to bee-keeping challenges in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea.

Duration : 0:6:37

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11 October

The Bees: Social Comment 3

Some thing is happening to the Bee populations of the world…they are disappearing without a trace. No one knows why, were or how, what is known is that it is causing catastrophe economic and agriculturally not only for beekeepers, but also farmers and manufacturers who go the natural way (organic or “Green” Way)to produce their produce and products. This issue effects us all, even in areas we still don’t realize, is it disease, radiation from towers, … ?

Duration : 0:4:3

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16 September

beekeeping in Guinea (3 of 3) wax products

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/appendd.htm for recipes
See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/oic_toc.htm for more information on Farmer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Rural development agents from the Fédération des apiculteurs de Guinée, and OIC’s Food and Livelyhood Security Pita and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer provided rural bee-tending groups with suggestions for manufacturing value-added products such as candles, moisturizing cream and soap in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea.

Duration : 0:5:30

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6 September