Low-Tech Apiculture in Berlin-Brandenburg

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Fresh goat cheese with honey Mead

The rows that check it

• 3 confirmed
• 1 amended
• 1 partly confirmed
• 1 marked for safety

• D12 amended Safety Bee stings: not in this draft, but the Bench sends readers to the bee document's colony numbers without a sting warning; consider adding
• D35 confirmed Zeidlerei: Slavic tree apiaries in Lower Lusatia by the 10th century (965); the word from a verb meaning to cut; the rope loop climbing method; Charles IV's Zeidel charter 1350 to …
• D36 confirmed Nickel Jacob, furrier of Sprottau, 1568, first practical German bee book, workers raise a queen from an ordinary egg
• D37 confirmed Johann Grüwel, mayor of Kremmen, Brandenburgische Bewährte Bienen-Kunst 1719, "Streusandbüchse", straw hives behind screens, willow in April, heath in August
• D38 partly confirmed A Brandenburg colony without sugar or medicine makes about 20 kg a year, needs 18 to 20 kg for winter, keeper takes 10 to 14 kg and a kilogram of wax, loses one hive in three each …

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Wild food and game Bees, honey and wax Animal health Berlin and Brandenburg