Season 1 Episode 7: About Bees, Tradition & Interest Podcast – Cameroon to Canada – Patrick’s Bee Adventure
On this episode of About Bees, we’re joined by way of Patrick Tefouet Tonlio, who was once an agriculture group organizer and trainer within the African country of Cameroon. Patrick now lives in Calgary the place he helps to keep honey bees and has been operating on farm and bee tasks with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society’s Land of Goals (https://ccisab.ca/land-of-dreams/).
Throughout his remaining yr of highschool, Patrick realized to paintings with bees from his grandfather when Patrick moved from the capital town to are living in his grandfather’s village. Honey bees in Cameroon are extraordinarily defensive, so most standard beekeeping is composed of constructing small bamboo hives, coating the packing containers with propolis and wax as a trap, then hanging the empty hives in bushes about 3 metres (ten toes) above flooring degree. After wild bees occupy the packing containers and after the nectar season, honey is harvested.
Cameroon has business beekeepers, together with the Fabasso circle of relatives, buddies of Patrick, who perform 15,000 hives. Mr. Fabasso has designed a hive, additionally fabricated from bamboo, very similar to Langstroth hives. The Fabasso honey crop is squeezed by way of a press invented by way of the Fabasso circle of relatives. Urgent the honey yields a top quality honey that doesn’t want to be extracted and isn’t heated right through processing.(https://teca.apps.fao.org/en/applied sciences/10140/).
Beekeepers would possibly harvest 20 kilograms (45 kilos) of honey every yr from conventional hives in Cameroon. However the ethnic workforce once in a while referred to as Pygmy other folks (Baka) harvest at once from wild colonies. To scale back stings, they use a unique secret herb, rubbed on their pores and skin. The herb? It’s a secret.
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