Author: Perone, O.
Language: English
Year of publication: 2009
Number of pages: 1
Type of publication: Article
Publisher: Bees for Development
Publication location: Text on this website

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Hi all ! My name is Oscar Perone. I live in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and I am 63 years old. I have been keeping bees since I was young, and in 2002 I became a professional beekeeper. I have also taught beekeeping as a teacher at training schools in several parts of Buenos Aires. In 2004, trying to escape Roundup and the environmental devastation as a consequence of soybean farming, we moved all of our hives to Pirané and Monte Lindo in the Formosa province in the tropical region of Argentina, where we still have them. For over one year I was in charge of beekeeping, using my method, at the 7,500 acre "El Palomar" ranch (for livestock and beekeeping) in Palo Santo in Formosa. The ranch has 1,000 hives, is organically certified, and is the one of more largest beekeeping operation in the north of Argentina. During all these years I developed a new technique called Extensive Organic Beekeeping that is specially for the care of African bees, although it works well with normal bees too, in non-tropical zones of the world. I was going to publish a book, but I decided to offer all the materials for free in a manual on my new blog: http://oscarperone.blogspot.com/ On my blog you can see the results in photographs from my apiaries. In the manual on my blog I explain, among other things, the method with which I "hunted" 339 swarms to start hives during the 2006/2007 season. So here it helped me a beekeeper from another list to translate the text from the Spanish because of my limitations with the English language. The following text is automatically translated by software. Sorry for the mistakes I ask you to enter my blog and read the manual. I want to help beekeepers around the world with this technique and I can not transmit my knowledge to my fellow beekeepers who speak English because I do not speak the language. I firmly believe that beekeepers are responsible to save the bees around the world, because they are in grave danger. Across the planet the hives are losing population at an alarming rate. I think I can do is help to the best of my ability. So my manual is free. For all in the world. I am entering all the lists of beekeeping in English in the world trying to find people like you who have kindly contact me in Spanish. And perhaps they would like help with the translation of the beekeeping blog to make this information available to many more beekeepers in the world. Please help me if you can. All the best Thanks. Oscar Perone Ozanan 96 1617 General Pacheco Buenos Aires Argentina Tel: +54 011 1532837346 mail: oscarperone@... Skype: oscarperone Blog: http://oscarperone.blogspot.com