{"id":5765,"date":"2020-09-18T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:12:08","slug":"inside-biodynamic-beekeeping-by-matthias-thun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/inside-biodynamic-beekeeping-by-matthias-thun\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside ‘Biodynamic Beekeeping’ by Matthias Thun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Modern beekeeping, influenced by new technologies and breeding methods, has increased honey production but left bee colonies weak and vulnerable to disease. With the alarming decline of the bee population raising concerns about an impending ecological crisis, many beekeepers are seeking a more sustainable way of caring for bees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biodynamic Beekeeping: A Sustainable Way to Keep Happy, Healthy Bees<\/a><\/em> by Matthias Thun offers practical instruction on caring for bees using biodynamic theories and methods. By considering the influence of the movement of the stars and the planets on the bees’ natural habits, biodynamics encourages beekeepers to be more in tune with their bees indicating, for example, the best days on which to inspect colonies or gather honey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, we share an extract from the book, which contains over 70 black-and-white photographs, exploring the increasing susceptibility of bees to disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Considering the substances that bees consume, it is almost incomprehensible that they can become diseased at all. Honey and pollen are considered healthy, disease-resisting substances by humans. So how does it happen that bees repeatedly suffer from diseases that sometimes lead to the death of whole colonies? A simple answer to this might be that the bees are so weakened in their organism that any pathogen can easily gain a foothold. Another contributing factor arises from problematic food substances which, as a result of constipation and diarrhoea, cause bees considerable difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In trying to discover why bees are so prone to disease nowadays, we do not have to look far for the ultimate cause: the human being. If bees were kept and raised in a bee-friendly manner that supports the whole colony organism, we would not be worrying today about how we will keep bees healthy for our descendants. It is not possible here to mention the many causes that have contributed to the increasing susceptibility of bees to disease, but we shall mention a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n