APICULTURE

Event

APICULTURE
Title:
APICULTURE
When:
Wednesday 20 November 2019, 09:00 - 17:00
Where:
Centre Védantique Ramakrishna de Gretz - Gretz
Categories:
Courses on Nature, Calendrier anglais

Description

The course on apiculture offered by the Centre aims to transmit the basic knowledge necessary to create and manage a family of beehives. The course covers the profession, the life of a colony of bees, the products of a beehive, necessary health precautions, and applicable legislation.
But we will also cover all of the major issues facing the profession.
Indeed, for the past few years, apiculture is in grave danger, both in France and in Europe.
And the situation, far from improving, is progressively worsening. Our bees are dying even in rural areas with a variety of flora and fauna, at rates sometimes exceeding 50%. All of the techniques of mass farming are having catastrophic consequences, including the elimination of diversity of plant life via the inconsiderate use of herbicides and excess bee mortality induced by the latest generation of neurotoxic insecticides.
In addition to these challenges, our bees must defend themselves against predators that we are unable to prevent: the Asian hornet is currently colonizing all of France, while the small beetle could very well arrive on our shores tomorrow.
The cumulative effects of these difficulties mean that the self-sufficiency that we had during the 1970s is no longer there. Today, we import twice our national production, the latter having become grossly insufficient.
At the same time, there is a growing awareness of the need to protect pollenizing animals and biological diversity, and to better respect the interdependence between all parts of the kingdom of life: the plant world, the animal world, and man as an integral part of nature. With this in mind, the course includes techniques that are respectful of the harmony found in natural cycles.


Sign-up details and course programme

With Yves BAUDRON

Professor at the Ecole National Supérieure d’Horticulture in Versailles. Assistant Engineer at the research laboratory of the Ecole National Supérieure of Landscaping in Versailles.

Yves BaudronTrainer in horticultural techniques at formco ENSP.
Ex-trainer within the association of greenhouse operators of the Ile de France region.
Expert in apiculture, member of the national progarmme “Bees—the sentinel of the environment”, manager of several public and privately-owned collections of beehives.
President of the group “l’Abeille Athégienne”.
Administrator of FROSAIF (regional federation of organisations for safe beekeeping in the Ile de France region).
President of the Assembly of Defenders of Safe Beekeeping in Essone (GDSA 91).
Trainer in beekeeping practices (management of educational beehives and precautionary measures).
Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit.


Venue

Centre Védantique Ramakrishna de Gretz
Location:
Centre Védantique Ramakrishna de Gretz
Street:
64 boulevard Victor Hugo
ZIP:
77220
City:
Gretz