L Hermitage du mont Bogdo Bees to revive ci3es Christophe RENARD Cellphone: +33 6 60 36 93 93 @mail: crbogdo@yahoo.fr Green Initiatives Talk @ Haworth Furniture, Shanghai 2015.09.29
Preamble
Human & Apiculture Human & bees Exist since the Neolithic period, Domestication of the bees started with the human settlement A wide range of beehive models 20 000 types of bees 40 000 bees in beehive -- 80 000 bees per year /beehive (buckfast) spring bees - winter bees
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Robots : Social Rela:ons
Mine & Drug : trained trunk CROATIA (University of Zaghreb) + FRANCE (Inra) To detect mine, heroin... Bee control by infrared camera Train bees is cheaper than dogs USA - SWITZERLAND Inscentinel : to detect drug, cancer, explosive device... 19 years old, a swiss beekeeper trains 70 bees to detect marijuana Bee : the best thief of sugar/sweet food Area of action : 500m (quick action) --
Kids & Adults
2013 : Temperature structure
Beehives : honey+comb+pollen 9
Beehives with Frameworks (1850) Shape : SQUARE The VOIRNOT Shape: RECTANGLE The DADANT The LANGSTROTH 10
The KENYAN Beehives - - WAST built naturally The WARRE 1890 11
New Design of Beehives 12
Kids & Adults Type of Bees
Honey Pollen Comb - Honey 14
Auto- regula:on in swarm. Honey BOX Comb/Babies Queen Young Bees Soldiers+ Senior bees 15
Auto- regula:on :. Buckingham Palace 16
Kids & Adults Stings To defend BABIES (Queen)-- TO defend FOOD INSIDE : YOUNG bees -- BOARD : Soldiers +
Meli^ophily Plants & bees Lavander Chesnut Hazel Acacia And Vegetables 18
Products from a hive Honey Bees have to visit 1 million of flowers to make 100 gr of honey Wax Used to manufacture cells of a swarm Propolis Mix of pollen, wax, resin & balms harvested on different herbal plants This is an anti-infection natural medicine to disinfect a hive. Pollen Source of proteins for the bees Royal jelly Food dedicated to the queen & the babies 19
Kitchen Honey - no limit to consume No in fridge - Put in your cupboard Dark + 14 degrees + no humidity Propolis - no limit to consume in plas:c bag or plas:c box No humidity Royal Jelly - 6 months maxi in fridge + in box Pollen - keep not a long :me Dried or poisonous 20
Transformed products from a hive Food Gingerbread, mead, sweets, Cosmetic products Pharmacopeia 21
Do you know apitherapy? This natural medicine is as old as the apiculture itself. It consists of using products transformed by the bees: honey, propolis, pollen, bee venom to relieve pains. Examples: Bee venom is used to decrease the rheumatic illness, Royal jelly is used by Seniors to s:mulate immune system, Honey is used on wound for burned skin. 22
Sclerosis Apitherapy - - VENOM Arthrosis. 3 :mes per week 20 s:ngs 23
Healing - - HONEY + PROPOLIS Wound Bed sores THYME Ulcer. 24
An orchard without bees Do you have an idea what a supermarket look like without the work of bees? 30% of our vegetable & fruits depend of bees! 25
Pollen
The trends in France In 2013, European Community decided to reduce the use of pes:cide products on crops to conserve the environment (bees, wild flowers, ) & to protect the ci:zens (crops transformed in food products), The 21st Climate conferences will take place in France- Paris in December 2015 A numerous French national & International companies are sensitive to the Green Environment April May June July August Sept Weather seen in my beehives 27
The trends in France Children a beehive in the garden (Hotel of insects) a beehive at kid garden Agriculture to put beehives in an orchad To put beehives in a biofarm, in nursery (plant/ tree) Enterprise Build an internal club : Apiculture To produce honey to deliver to their clients/employees Training sekng up and follow- up apiary (group of beehives) Par3culars to sell honey / propolis / royal jelly BtoB sell your product to transform it Beekeepers to produce and sell Queens / Food for bees / swarm 28
Bees in City : France, UK, Germany... Paris Paris Berlin London... 29
Bees in City 30
Problem of Bees VARROA Insecticide + Fungicide Hornet 31
My today farm Situated in centre of France, I created my organic farm, 12 years ago to protect the current ecosystem Bees: my hives are settled close to orchads, meadow & forests, Forests: I planted 20 ha of nectar trees (Acacia, Chestnut, Lime) & I manage its, Medicinal herbal plants: I protect herbal plants to help my bees supporting naturally the potential diseases. Today I have 42 hectares 32
Beekeeping in France : Black Board French buys 41 tonnes of honey per year Production by french beekeepers : 16 tonnes per year 95% of Acacia Honey sold in France is from center of Europe : Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania 99% of sold royal jelly is from Middle east -- Turkey, Lebanon... 97% of beekeepers have 20 beehives and are in multi-activities 3% are in full time job - from 300 up to 500 beehives - no employee Each regions have from 1 up to 3 schools in beekeeping... students or for home farming 3 laboratories specialists in beekeeping : Bordeaux, Avignon, Sophia Antipolis and one selected to be the reference in Europe. 15 years ago, French has got the NDA of bee (the black) 33
Beekeeping in France : Black Board Beginning of 2015, South West (Toulouse, Bordeaux, les Pyrenees) have lost 90% of swarm due to pesticide In 1950, France was the leader in production of Lavender Honey - Due to sickness and insects, the production of lavender has decreased by 75% in France... Cosmetic Industries - Laboratories - Manufacturers of cake - they have from 1000 up to 5000 beehives on back of their chain The Future of beekeeping : - Supported by Government, Supported by kids - in urban area (no pesticide), no insect against them... - Beehives in industrial process... - Home farming for a personal production / development of schools - professional beekeeping will exist in country "low tax" + 34 great nature and climate
Exchanges Based on my current experience in beekeeping, I will be glad to help any Company to build a project of getting beehives on the roof of Shanghai buildings. Let start an exciting experience together, to build common projects How could we transform your Green ideas in concrete actions? How could we show to anybody that we protect dayly the bees? 35
Beekeeping in France : Black Board French buys 41 tonnes of honey per year Production by french beekeepers : 16 tonnes per year 95% of Acacia Honey sold in France is from center of Europe : Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania 99% of sold royal jelly is from Middle east -- Turkey, Lebanon... 97% of beekeepers have 20 beehives and are in multi-activities 3% are in full time job - from 300 up to 500 beehives - no employee Each regions have from 1 up to 3 schools in beekeeping... students or for home farming 3 laboratories specialists in beekeeping : Bordeaux, Avignon, Sophia Antipolis and one selected to be the reference in Europe. 15 years ago, French has got the NDA of bee (the black) Beginning of 2015, South West (Toulouse, Bordeaux, les Pyrenees) 36
L Hermitage du mont Bogdo THANK YOU Christophe RENARD Cellphone: +33 6 60 36 93 93 @mail: 37