wonderland bees! In the years before the war and during the war there were two beekeepers in Welmbüttel, forestry and agriculture and farmer Johann Heinrich Thode Rohde.
came after the war, teachers and Siegfried Nerlich Add in the 80's Kurt Wignick, Rolf Thode, Klaus Demmert, Ingo Weinert and last Steffi Engler. is in the "beginner's guide" for the bee friend of Josef Herold on "What you should know about bees," a pithy slogan that is applicable to other areas of life.
"Above all, learn theory first, otherwise it remains practical Tinker for a lifetime." (V. Berlepsch)
past the swarm of bee keeping was operated in geimkert "straw baskets and in Schleswig-Holstein-hiking booties. is today in modern magazine hives in which individual honeycomb supports are placed geimkert. The box shape has the advantage in transportation, on a trailer and in nature it can be stacked very well, so that several cases (people) are opposite each other and coexist. One can in this mode, very good weak nations constrict and expand strong nations, for the breeding success of the beekeeper brings higher income or yield. The control and maintenance is considerably lighter than the old straw baskets.
The beekeeper in his element
for the bees is the friend of his people over the winter very important in this period, the bees fed with sugar water or Feedbee inverted solution. In the spring with the first flower of the willow branch, the so-called "first bee bread" will find the people back natural food. Location, landscape, season and environment of the colony to determine the taste of honey. This results, for example, lime blossom honey, heather honey and canola honey is there, but also acacia honey, if the site offers this selection the colonies. With us, the rape blossom honey is a "hit" is. Often you can find on the label of honey glass for advertising a specific name or term for the region as "Dithmarscher Switzerland" or "AÖZA honey."
In any case, it is a beautiful close to nature hobby.
