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Gerald Cooper
A beekeeper
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Gerald was a University Lecturer in Social Science and moved to Wales in 1980. He was then a Dairy Farmer for Ten Years before becoming a professional Beekeeper with 500 hives of bees, an exhibition centre, shop and tearoom.
His overriding aim in doing these things was to make a living by doing what he enjoyed doing.
'It doesn't always work, but it's better than a career and an office'.
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‘Bees, Man and the threat of extinction; what we can do’Comments:
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Websites
- British Beekeeper's Association
- The BBKA works to promote bees and beekeeping and to provide a range of member services to beekeepers in the UK
- Welsh Beekeeper's Association
- Keeping Welsh beekeepers informed
- Central Science Laboratory
- An organisation dedicated to applying science in protection of food chain safety and environmental health
- Countryside Council for Wales
- The Countryside Council for Wales is the Government's statutory advisor on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment in Wales and its inshore waters
- Plants for Life
- About the importance of plants and why we need them
Books
- The Biology of the Honeybee
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Description: All you need to know about the honey bee
ISBN: 0674074092 - Honeybee Ecology
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Description: Behavioural biology
ISBN: 0691083924 - Bees of the World
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Description: A reference book for naturalists and amateurs
ISBN: 0816057125 - Guide to Bees and Honey
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Description: A guide to beekeeping
ISBN: 1904846246 - Bees at the Bottom of the Garden
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Description: This book aims to take the mystique out of keeping bees
ISBN: 0907908977 - Plants and Honeybees: Their Relationship
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Description: How the European honey bee utilises the flowers and plants in the British Isles
ISBN: 190484619X
Organisations
- The Woodland Trust
- Leading charity dedicated solely to the protection of our native woodland heritage.
- The Ramblers
- The UK’s biggest walking association
- Landlife
- Working mainly in urban and urban fringe areas, to bring nature and people closer together.
Hannah - for honey for sale near London checkout our website at www.hertsbees.org.uk. We have a map of places to buy Hertfordshire honey.
Fantastic lecture, brings back memories of my Grandparents honey shed which had the best smell encased within it's walls.. On another note I've been searching in vain for UK honey in London shops and to no avail so any links to stockists would be much appreciated :)
Very much into what your talking about. Am a researcher and independent Beekeeper. Do alot of Honeybee Removals. Specialty Bee Navagation and honeybee physiology....... to read part of one of my research articles go to. www.buzzashuck.wetpaint.com. I would like very much to have some communication with you.. Your right..and the time is now or lose the bees. But., with earth system change now happening so often.. the seventh sense of creation is giving us strong warning and the honeybee is leading this in one of the most interesting and mysterious ways... Take care and hope to hear from you, Blessings, Buzza Shuck
This is a really neat and informative lecture. Thanks!
if you want to know more about bees, read Steiner's book called Bees: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bees-Nine-Lectures-Nature/dp/0880104570
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