Apiconsult News - May 2008

Nyuki

Your African Beekeeping Newsletter

May 2008 Edition
 
Welcome to this issue of Nyuki (meaning bee in the Swahili Language).  Thank you for subscribing.  Please send any comments o­n the newsletter to: tcarroll@apiconsult.com

Tom Carroll, Webmaster Apiconsult.com.

----The African Beekeeping Resource Centre (ABRC) -----

ABRC is now registered as a not for profit organisation with the Kenyan government and working o­n beekeeping projects in Rift Valley province, Kenya.  For more information contact admin@africanbeekeeping.org

----Resources o­n the Apiconsult Web Site-----

•  The beekeeping book ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Beekeeping in Kenya’ is now available for instant download from the apiconsult website.  For more information see: http://www.apiconsult.com/beekeeping-beginner’s-guide.htm  The guide is recommended for Kenyan/African beekeepers/those interested in African beekeeping or those from around the world who wish to keep bees using simple top bar hives.
  
•  A new set of 18 beekeeping photographs has been added to the apiconsult gallery.  See: http://www.apiconsult.com/beekeeping-gallery_2.htm
  
•  An article has been added o­n making a beekeeping floral calendar with a Kenyan example.  See:  http://www.apiconsult.com/beekeeping-floral-calendar.htm

-----April 2008 in a Kenyan Apiary-----

The long rains are here again in Kenya and the bees have been busy bringing in pollen, possibly from Keiapple, which has just finished flowering.  There is a smell of honey but o­n inspection there is little surplus and the bees are building new wax comb.  No colonies have absconded this year to date.  If any of our readers has a simple design for making a scale hive please forward to me at the contacts given at the bottom of this newsletter.  A scale hive could prove very useful in developing the floral calendar listed above under resources.     

-----Dates for your diary-----

·        Baraka Agricultural College, Molo, Kenya has a o­ne-week course o­n ‘Introduction to Beekeeping’ - 25th to 31st May 2008.  Dates are subject to change please email Baraka (baraka@sustainableag.org) to confirm course dates.  For further details please see:

http://www.apiconsult.com/beekeeping-training.htm

Note:  If you run training courses/other events o­n beekeeping please forward details to us to help you promote your activity.

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Best regards,
 
Tom Carroll
Apiconsult
Box 12173, Nakuru, Kenya.

Tel:  254 733 716948
Web Site: http://www.apiconsult.com
E-mail:  tcarroll@apiconsult.com