Hi,

I am a British Beekeeper but would like to know if there are any good
french Bee Keeping holidays around? Sort of learnt and practice type
things. Lets face it British and French attitudes to beekeeping are
poles appart.

Thanks
Steve

I would be interested in knowing the difference. What are a few items you
refer to?

Steve Tabor used to work for some agency in France breeding bees. Maybe he
had to leave the country after testing out those African Bee Queens the
Brazillian Entomologist sent him for testing at the USDA lab in Louisiana
Where Steve worked back in the 1950's. Yes Virgina, Africanized bees were
here a long time before the official arrival. This was some time before that
clumsy worker in Brazil let those bad girls out.

I suppose Steve was a Francophile when he decided to take the job. If he is
still there by now he must be a Francophone. He used to have a feature in
one of the bee journals I remember reading one of these where he talked
about a canal boat that went through the property he was on and there were
beehives on the boat. Bees on canal boats in France..That might be a nice
holiday: wine, bees. cheese.

au revoir

What I was trying to say ( a little climsily) was more about it
importance and place in the wider economy and social scene. If you
look at (for example) the Apiservices website
http://www.apiservices.com/_menus_us/index.htm?menu.htm&0

and take a look at the number and content of the French pages there's
far more there than you would ever see (outside association pages) in
the UK. Then theres the wide range of products they sell - not
something you see reflected in UK beekeeping.

I know they have the climate and that is obviously a striking factor -
but it is different.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:06:16 -0500, Charlie Kroeger
frankensteinface.com> wrote:

I am French Beekeeper and seriously I have never heard of such thing as a
bee keeping holiday.

You can try :
http://www.citedesabeilles.com/fr/cite.php?rub=0

Also you can contact local beekeeping associations and see if you can
manage to find a professional bee keeper who would want some help during
summer.

Young beekeepers are possibly the way to go as they may very well speak
basic English and also they may have gone overseas to learn technics in
the states or in NZ.

Good luck.