Natural Beekeeping

FYI------AVAILABLE COME JUNE!

Begin forwarded message:From: Klaus Langpohl


Klaus Langpohl

Environmentalist/Artist Beekeeper

Box 34 Gilberts Cove Nova Scotia BOW 2RO

837-1030

email: klauslangpohl@ns.sympatico.ca





Activity Theme:

Visual Art

Natural Interpretation and Environmental Awareness

Agro-organic Living

Families, everyone

FitnessLevel: moderate (standing for demo)

Duration: under 2 hours

Maximum number of participants I could accommodate per session - no limit

Distance from Digby l6 kms. Hwy 1, 8l2l Barton, NS

Cannot be hosted at the Pines

Available to host my experience (minimum participation - 4 adults)

Cost: $15.00 per adult

Children l6 years and under - FREE

experience description:

For the past two years Klaus has been studying the biology and history of bees
and beekeeping. As an environmentalist
and a member of the UNESCO designated Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
Association;
he decided in the Spring of 2008 to respond to the local environmental
association's,( TREPA) request for people to
commit to a project which would help the environment. His commitment is to
establish bee colonies which
will have no drugs whatsoever in the hive or administered to the bees. Your
experience at
one of his hives will be hands on, interactive and educational. You will help
build
up a beehive and see how all of the equipment is used. The trip to the actual
hive will show the
honey and the bees which he has "regressed" back to their normal size from their
commercial "super
sized" state.

Each participant will be given an original small booklet made by Shirley
Langpohl, mixed-media artist. They
also will be shown how to make a small "wild bee house" which they can put in
their own gardens and woods
or unused urban spaces.


Experience Provider Statement

For the past two years I have been studying about the biology of the bee and the
history of beekeepiing around the world. My library
has grown with the classics of beekeeping. In 2008 I became a Registered
Beekeeper of Nova Scotia with the Department of
Agriculture. They provide news updates about the situation with bees here and
globally. I was worried about the
reports of bees dying and the danger to our world's food supply. Since I am not
an advocate for GMO crop solutions and in my opinion, I
do not think "chemical applications" are the answer to the problems; I decided
to start raising "organic bees which would make organic
honey". Regressing the bees back to their natural size was step one in my goal
for a healthy hive without drugs.
My goal is to make beehives which are healthy and organic and sell them to as
many people as I can to spread this
alternative way of raising bees in Southwest Nova Scotia. With healthy hives,
I hope we can bring back the
bee to abundant populations again.

I studied "Natural Beekeeping" with Vermont author and beekeeper, Ross Conrad
at Windhorse Farm ,NS, last autumn. Mother
Nature and the bees have been my main teacher . Next year I will have Phase 3
of my Beekeeping Project in place - which
will be creating a body of art work to communicate to a broader audience about
"bees".

Rural Institute for a Creative Economy

Subject: RURAL INSTITUTE FOR A CREATIVE ECONOMY ANNAPOLIS & AREA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:02:08 -0300

FYI Klaus and I were delighted to be part of this effort to bring a catalyst
(a rural institute) into our area to help with our shift to a "creative rural
economy".It was inspiring to be in a room with over 30 people who all had a deep
respect for our rural life and the vision and skills tohelp work together to
actually have something innovative and creative come out of it all. The
discussions were great and everyone seemed toshare the same page with respect to
small scale and sustainability, etc. This summer there will be a mapping of all
of the artists in Annapolis and area -Don Rice and ourselves are hoping that
"and area" will include us artists who live on the Digby side too. Will keep
you posted.Business News ReportCULTURAL MAPPING AND CREATIVE ECONOMY WORKSHOP
Team Annapolis may be more of a nickname than an organization, but in the last
year Heather Leblanc, Linda Brown, Bob Maher, Amery Boyer, and friends have
accomplished some pretty unique projects, including last fall’s Living for Today
and Tomorrow Energy and Climate Change conference in Annapolis Royal, and the
totally unique Ride the Lobster event, an 800-kilometer unicycle marathon which
drew over 100 unicyclists from 13 countries to race through 130 communities from
Yarmouth to Baddeck. Imagine, this is a group that recognizes a unicycle race
tracked online via GPS-units strapped to each racer can draw international media
attention for Nova Scotia’s tourism industry and form the core of entertainment
events along the route. Frankly, Nova Scotia could use more of that kind of
thinking. So, it isn’t surprising that Team Annapolis is responsible for
spearheading a recent workshop on Cultural Mapping and the Creative Rural
Economy. The event attracted participants from varied backgrounds ranging from
artists and artisans to engineers, development agents, entrepreneurs, research
scientists, naturalists, real estate agents, elected officials and CAOs. What
does a creative economy mean? Why do we want a creative economy? And, what do we
do in the short term in order to build one for the long term? By day’s end,
these questions still hung heavy in the air, but the workshop was successful
nonetheless. Although it asked more questions than it answered, it asked good
questions and drew together exactly the people most likely to work together over
the coming years to answer them, and that’s a very good start. Now that Team
Annapolis has opened the toolshed on discussions like how to developing a Banff
Centre for the Arts-like education institution in Annapolis Royal, we can roll
up our sleeves and get down to the nitty gritty of building the creative rural
economy. Or, in the words of Team Annapolis member Heather Leblanc, “Let’s stop
talking about things that can’t be done. Let’s talk about what can be done. I
don’t want to study this anymore – I want to move forward.”cheers, Klaus and
Shirley
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